New wave, punk band, The Stranglers headed over to Brxiton’s O2 Academy Saturday 24th March to play a headline show, with support from Northern-Irish rock band, Therapy. The audience at the beginning of the evening started off slightly diverse with…
The 90s are synonymous with the broken down, derivative and quintessentially indie. But survivors have some how managed to transcend the ordinary and fixate themselves as legendary. Call it a commiseration for enduring the 1990s. Amongst them are the Welsh-born-and-bred…
On Tuesday 13th March I headed over to London’s infamous gay venue, Heaven, to review electronic, pop, multi-instrumentalist, SOPHIE. Recently, on February 16th, SOPHIE dropped her first cut of the year, ‘Faceshopping,’ through Transgressive Records. Since the release of this…
Opening his set with the title track from his recent album Criminal, The Soft Moon – aka Luis Vasquez – gave a seamless, captivating performance at Tufnell Park Dome on Friday night. Entering the stage in a haze of smoke…
After returning from this gig, I had to have a moment to assess what I had just been too. The music was great and all the acts who performed on the night played to a really high and admirable level,…
“We are The Cribs and we are from Wakefield.” After the line was said – the iconic songs began to be sung and the crowd for the bands’ third night of their residency at Manchester’s Gorilla, on Sunday December 10,…
Think Madchester: think The Charlatans. The homecoming gig whilst touring their thirteenth studio album Different Days was well awaited and their return to the Apollo theatre, brought this venue back to it’s former glory of stand out, unapologetically “we are…
Since her twirl as a Burberry model and the beauty of her nu-folk inspired debut album We Slept at Last, Marika Hackman has delved through the main realms that an aspiring artist must take. Having expanded her sound and broadened…
Last week, the new music & conference showcase Off The Record returned to Manchester, bringing with it a whole load of new music, as well as talks about the music industry from the likes of Cabbage, False Heads and countless…
On another Saturday which saw Scruff Of The Neck take over Manchester’s Oldham Street, we headed to Night & Day to catch Tuscan Sun, Indigo Velvet and Affairs. Following sets from both Tuscan Sun and Indigo Velvet that could have…