Greeted with a sign reading ‘No Breasts, No Requests’ posted behind the DJ Booth, Cargo in Shoreditch has never been a favourite of mine yet I found myself back there due to the popularity of Chet Faker. The original show was…
RUUUUDE BOY, RUUUUUDE BOY bellow the crowd in anticipation of the arrival of their ska heroes as sweat drips off the ridiculously high ceilings in the grand old venue that is the criminally underused Olympia. Although the place is rough…
Formed in Liverpool / Wirral in 2011, The Dirty Rivers shed the usual Beatles influence common to their city in favour of a darker, more adrenalin fuelled sound, reminiscent of bands such as The Stooges, The Rolling Stones, BRMC, and…
Guards release their new single, ‘I Know It’s You’ on 8th July 2013. It is taken from their debut album In Guards We Trust out now through Partisan Records.Following their recent explosive visit to Europe, New York City’s Guards ready…
BIFFY CLYRO, BEADY EYE, THE COURTEENERS, ALUNAGEORGE & PROFESSOR GREEN CONFIRMED TO COMPLETE SUMMER’S HOTTEST BILL PLUS THE LEGENDARY CHIC FEATURING NILE RODGERS FOR A SPECIAL DISCO-DRENCHED, SUN-SOAKED HEADLINE SHOW IN IBIZA GOOD TIMES, THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES… In…
NEW SINGLE “BACKWATERS” RELEASED JULY 1ST ON MAD MARK/ INFECTIOUS This year has already been an incredibly exciting one for Castleton duo Drenge. After emerging in many ones to watch lists at the start of 2013, the brothers Eoin and Rory…
With a beautiful folk voice and a concept behind every guitar note, Del Barber sings parables without preaching or political teaching, just pure stories of real people. Having come all the way from Canada, Del was a pleasure to meet…
A drummer’s drummer was Fela Kuti; that’s fair to say. He was also a renegade of the purest form. A whirlwind of fire with lava in his bone marrow. The sort of character whose stories and reports would have surely…
There’s nothing quite like a trip to Brighton to ease the soul. Always the destination of choice for us as a group of farah clad teens back in the day. Stereo pumping out mod classics all the way down on…
Having earlier in the evening played an impromptu acoustic show in Heebie Jeebies, a hundred yards down the road the Zanzibar is packed to the rafters to watch MILES KANE in the smallest venue he will have played in years….