Single Review: The Clause – Where Are You Now?

A deceptively simply and catchy tune that’s taken my ear by storm this month comes from Birmingham’s hotly tipped The Clause. The band have released five tracks since late 2016; each one shows an increasing development and an unwavering ear for what goes down. The latest track Where Are You Now? released at the end […]

News: Rifffest 2019 adds Adore // Repel to lineup

LEEDS LENDING ROOM | SATURDAY 26 JANUARY 2019 | 5pm – 11pm Following the recent announcement of Brooders Presents … RIFFFEST, the band’s first one-day festival celebrating the best and the brightest that the Yorkshire, Humberside and Lancashire areas can bring for a feast of riffs for all to come and indulge in, the final […]

Single Review: Sea Legs – Head in the Sand

It’s not too often you hear a fully formed sound on a first track but that’s what you get with Leeds trio Sea Legs and their November debut release Head in the Sand.  There’s plenty of complexity and polish in this crisp song which instantly has something of the quality, mature sound of Wilco but […]

Single Review: Bengal Lancers – Big Ideas

Perhaps Christmas is the season to remind ourselves that those grand ideas and plans for the future created down the pub after a few jars with the lads and the lasses never quite turn out to be quite so wonderful the following morning. London based indie bouncers Bengal Lancers take this as the story to […]

Single Review: roves – beneath my skin

Reading based roves are exactly the reason why my long quest for the perfect sound will never be at an end. Just when I think I’ve finally found it, along come along a band like roves luring me onto the choppy dangerous, but exciting rocks of the ocean with their sweeping, soaring tunes. While my […]

Live: Razorlight, O2 Academy, Leeds

Fresh from the release of Johnny Borrell’s bands’ first studio record in 10 years, we headed to Leeds to see how the new tracks of today held up with the indie classics of yesteryear. Olympus Sleeping was released in October giving fans plenty of time to get familiar with the new songs and it was clear that […]

Halfway 2 Nowhere Top 40 of 2018

2018 has been a year that indie-rock and rock n’ roll have come right back to the mainstream. Bands like Nothing But Thieves, Bring Me The Horizon and across the pond Shinedown and Black Stone Cherry have had major releases that have given hope to the grassroots that rock music is well and truly alive. […]

Single Review: The Flatline – Isn’t she Pretty?

I like a band with presence and plenty of swagger and young Manchester/ Oldham/ Huddersfield band The Flatline have it in spades. After last year’s excellent Arctic Monkey rock tinted Sub Pressure Sessions EP, the guys (lead singer Jack Dunning, Will Leslie on guitar, Jamie Walton with bass and drummer Ben Pursehouse) end 2018 with […]

EP Review: Backspace – Boys

It’s been quite a year for Guiseley based Backspace. The band wowed Halfway 2 Nowhere at the start of the year with their cool lo-fi first releases (Final Shout and Don’t Stunt Your Growth) and after a series of well received gigs over the summer months and autumn, they certainly keep the water boiling with […]