Halfway 2 NowhereBeat-Herder, the weirdest, wildest and most reliably wonderful festival in the UK, will be returning for another instalment of beats and barminess among the rolling green pastures of Lancashire’s Ribble Valley from 12th – 14th July 2019. 2018 proved to be a vintage year for Beat-Herder. A sell-out success and bathed in sunshine, headliners included Orbital, Soulwax and Django Django. In 2019, the much-loved […]
Music is littered with people who were once the next big thing. In the early 1980’s singer Kirk Brandon had two strong stabs at music immortality with the bands Theatre of Hate and Spear of Destiny. Theatre of Hate were a band that became indie darlings in the early 1980’s thanks to their seminal hit […]
There’s always plenty of space in our house for a pure and clear octane fuelled indie banger, and earlier this year Selby based four piece The Sunset Radio obliged with their excellent single Old Goodbyes. There’s something of the optimistic fresh 90’s style of the likes of Ash in this track and the guys have […]
You have to love a band that evokes thoughts of a Thomas Hardy book in their name. While Hardy’s novel was somewhat ironic as it suggested that the rather chaotic world he created was some kind of a rural idyll, The Madding Crowd’s last EP 2016’s The 78th Bridge on the Rochdale Canal suggests something […]
roves are one of the bands I’ve been really excited about discovering this year; their music and attitude are exactly what I still enjoy searching for. I particularly admire the way roves have been fully focused on their own sound; a deliciously atmospheric, ambient, slightly sad and intelligent vibe. It feels like this band have […]
Self described Oldham’s least favourite sons The Maitlands have just released their new track, Daunting From Derker, the fourth track out this year from these busy lads. For those not in the know, Derker is home to an Oldham metro tram stop sadly renowned in recent times for violent hammer attacks in the car park. […]
Young Guiseley alt-pop firecrackers, BACKSPACE are back this autumn and will be supporting fellow Guiseley born band Elephant Trees at the Leeds date of their nationwide “Uncomfortable” tour. “This will be a brilliant gig for us” said Harry Turner BACKSPACE’S drummer, “we’ve had a fantastic summer season and it’ll be great to be back on […]
Belfast but London based band ABQ (aka Albuquerque) clearly have gutsy ambition to join and succeed those behemoths in rock of the likes of Imagine Dragons, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro. With their debut single, Takes So Long ABQ have released a strong statement of intent for the future. Takes So Long is a highly polished […]
I remember the moment I first heard The Sherlocks like it was yesterday. I was in a dodgy B&B in Ireland listening to some generic background music on YouTube getting ready for an evening out with the family and a song came on that caught me the second the first riff kicked in. Live for the Moment, which […]
The first track we reviewed in 2018 was one by The Sheratons and we described it as “a solid indie-pop song that will help bring in fans before the band unleash their true musical potential”. We thought at the time Better Days was good but perhaps not as good as the band could be; last month though, they released their […]
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