Last weekend, Sheffield celebrated it’s most famous music festival’s tenth birthday as more people than ever before descended on Hillsborough Park for Tramlines 2018. Now at it’s new permanent home away from the city, the main festival site has seen itself distanced from the city centre “Fringe Festival” in a move both criticised yet applauded. […]
Month: July 2018
There are only a few days left until Hillsborough Park opens it’s gates for the first time to Tramlines festival, welcoming the biggest lineup in it’s 10 year history. It’s never easy spotting the best new talent amongst a lineup as crowded as this year’s so we’ve done the ground work, listened to every artist […]
EP Review, Callow Youth, Vibe Demo’s
Band names are important; sometimes a mere name can make me sit up and want to take notice. A name has got to have something individual about it; call yourself “Brexit” and you are going to struggle to get noticed in a web search. The name of Manchester’s (Tameside and Failsworth to be exact) Callow […]
The Covasettes – Top Drawer
When we covered Manchester band The Covasettes March release “Wondering Why”, we were optimistic that the band could be one to drive a new age of guitar music in the city. It’s been just over three months since then and whilst it feels like we’ve been waiting an age for the follow up Top Drawer, we’re very glad […]