Bringing together the best of local and national acts to the North East stage, Gathering Sounds Festival in Stockton in August provided an electrifying showcase of musical talent that left attendees buzzing with excitement. The festival, now in its fifth…
Multi-platinum, GRAMMY® Award-winning, alternative rock pioneers, The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer have today announced a major summer tour of the UK and Ireland in 2024. When The Smashing Pumpkins first emerged out of Chicago in 1988, the world had never heard a band quite like them….
The Cranberries To The Faithful Departed remastered deluxe edition vinyl and CD reissues released 13th October. Includes bonus content and three previously unreleased album demos. Buy HERE The Cranberries’ monumental third album To The Faithful Departed is reissued today as a deluxe edition on vinyl and…
Mark Frith is the doppelganger we’ve all be waiting for. Whilst mysterious genius Lee Mavers is seen occasionally in recording studios or someone bumping into him by chance, the likelihood of any further The La’s live concerts seems to be…
Pic: Jill Furmanovsky It would be hard to top Liam Gallagher’s biblical Knebworth Park shows, which proved to be some of the biggest live events of 2022. But the always ambitious icon has once again excelled himself with news of a tour that will be…
With a combined age of 145, Blink 182, last night at Birmingham’s Utilita Area, played like a trio with a quarter of that age. Feisty, pure energy with enough punk attitude to equal The Clash, The Ramones and Nirvana, yesterday…
There’s no quicker way of revealing I’m a gal-of-a-certain-age than to say Britpop band Cast soundtracked the glory years of my youth. Not only did they perform at both of my first proper festival experiences (V96 and Oasis at Knebworth,…
The thought of finding a new release of a long-lost band from the 1960’s always fills me with the sort of excitement you experienced as a kid when you’d find a shock 1/2p sweet after stuffing your face with what…
Riding high on the coattails of ‘Exorcism of Youth’ hitting number six in the album charts (listen here), Dundee’s The View are heading out on a full UK tour this autumn. Starting in Nottingham on 2nd November, the tour finishes…
Having teased us with the release of three EPs over the last few years, London-based Mersey-born folk artist Robin Elliott finally drops his long-awaited debut album ‘There Is A Land’ later this month. Produced by renowned folk artist Ben Walker,…