POWERFUL, LOUD, PERSONAL, ANGRY, GENTLE Manchester Academy was one of only three shows in the UK for Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes, in support of their third studio album “The End Of Suffering” and I was lucky enough to be there. I arrived in time [...]
Last night Twisted Wheel’s frontman Jonny Brown spoke to Radio 1 from the back of a tour bus in Italy (the band are currently on tour with Liam Gallagher around Europe). The brutally honest interview tells the highs and lows of his career which [...]
Gang Of Youths, The Snuts, Zuzu, Cast, Nasty Cherry, Lauran Hibberd, The Hara, Cassia, Dylan John Thomas, Lona, Talk Show and Warrington’s own The K’s have been confirmed to join headliners Ian Brown and Catfish And The Bottlemen at Neighbourhood [...]
Some of the world’s biggest artists are women, yet year after year we’re constantly seeing women being ignored by festivals. Big festivals like Reading & Leeds, Glastonbury, Coachella and Lollapalooza are celebrant of championing the biggest names in [...]
Stripped back, intimate, beautiful. As part of Steve Lemaq’s BBC Radio 6, independent venue week I had the pleasure of seeing Rotherham born Rebecca Lucy Taylor, better known as Self Esteem, supported by Skinny Pelembe at the Leadmill performing a [...]
“Guitar Led Riffing Rock” After a brief hiatus pondering omens, synchronicity (no, not the rubbish album by The Police) and portents, I was only too pleased to lift the gloom at my Zodiac Strasse hang out and pitch my tent on the wholesome Northern [...]
‘Wrong Idea’ is the 3rd utterly brilliant new single from Guilford quartet, The Estevan’s. From the offset, the band have delighted our eardrums with some lively sounding, indie bangers after banger, gaining a solid and bigger fanbase with every [...]
When Blossoms announced that they were going to be playing one of their ‘Foolish Loving Spaces’ album launch shows at the O2 Ritz in Manchester, they sent social media into a frenzy. Fans across the country were scrambling to get tickets, with them [...]
5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS) will release CALM – their fourth studio album and first for Polydor Records – on March 27. Those who pre-order CALM will receive a brand-new song “No Shame” in addition to the previously released singles, “Easier” and [...]
On the back of his successes, including a critically-acclaimed breakthrough album and headline tour, featuring a sold-out show at London’s Brixton Academy, the sky is the limit on how far ‘Found What I’ve Been Looking For’ star Tom Grennan can progress [...]
