“Its Gonna Get Better” is the debut single from 20 year old up and coming Geordie troubadour Andrew Cushin. This track is a simple affair, which allows the beautiful natural tones of Andrews voice to shine; lyrically simple, bluesy yet positive and [...]
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 to [...]
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 [...]
“Music With Intellect And Passion” With a few exceptions, debut albums can be filled with all sorts of mayhem and excess, in the hope that all of that built up artistic mumbling, banging and in some cases angst, will find a home in the minds of an [...]
It was a sold-out O2 Ritz tonight for Earlstown, indie heroes Jamie Boyle, Ryan Breslin, Dexter Baker and Jordan Holden collectively known as The K’s. 2019 was a big year for these young lads and if tonight’s anything to go by, it seems that 2020 is [...]
“Welsh Kings Of Indie Rock” Formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in the Cynon Valley, Mid Glamorgan, Wales, the band consists of Kelly Jones, Richard Jones, Adam Zindani and James Morrison. They have released 11 studio albums, which include 6 UK [...]
Powerful And Heavy, Desperate And Emotional. Oh my God!… Seriously!… The Humanist, conceived and produced by Rob Marshall is an album devoid of the superlatives of description, because there are truly not enough to carry it to where it deserves to be!! [...]
