Over the past few years Ryan Keen has toured extensively around the UK building up his fan base and he’s landed himself firmly amongst the best of Britain’s fresh talent including Tom Odell, Delilah, and his pals Newton Faulkner and…
Walking into the basement of the Soho venue for the first time it instantly reminded me of a slightly smarter version of the 100 Club with a similar dated looking mahogany bar but thankfully minus those annoying pillars. As I…
Without a doubt, this man is one the biggest name in hip hop and one of the biggest in music today. A career spanning almost 20 years, 12 albums, numerous collaborations, billions of dollars in net worth, gets to touch…
Scala is the latest venue on the solo, acoustic tour of The Courteeners head honcho Liam Fray. A man who upholds the characteristics of the long line of front men from Manchester embodying everything the likes of Morrissey, Brown and…
All in black Luca Santucci paces across the stage, restlessly rubbing his face and hands together, in what can only be interpreted as nerve induced behaviour. “Excited is not the word” he tells us, smiling at familiar faces in the…
Having insisted on playing reggae in the office all day on Monday (which may have worn thin with some) I was in the zone when I set off to North Greenwich, though it did feel slightly incongruous arriving at the…
On the final stop of what has been a packed summer of dates, The Duckworth Lewis Method brought their unique brand of cricket-themed, ‘70s-tinged rock to a cheerful audience at the Glee Club in Birmingham. The group is made up…
It’s a Monday night and we arrive in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. Car parked precariously on some double yellow lines we queue to get in to Band On The Wall, an alluring historically rich art deco building run by…
With a prolonging walk towards the doors of my local music hotspot, Electric Circus in Edinburgh, I wasn’t really sure what I should be gearing up for. I was on my way to see Honningbarna. The information I have is…
This was the last gig of the Summer 2013 Ibiza Rocks season, with Foals and support from Jagwar Ma, and it promised to be a good one. Australian’s Jagwar Ma, aka Gabriel Winterfield and Jono Ma with the addition of…