Welsh rock royalty Stereophonics will be joining Noel Gallagher and Foals as headliners for this year’s eagerly anticipated event. Led by the enigmatic Kelly Jones, one of the UK’s most prolific singer-songwriters, the band will perform on the festival’s new site of Exhibition Park on Sunday 26th May. Stereophonics’ This is Tomorrow date follows the band’s 2017 gold-certified album ‘Scream Above The Sounds’, which includes singles ‘All In One […]
Month: January 2019
Renowned as the unrivalled home of music discovery, scooping awards and plaudits across the board as a springboard for the latest and greatest new talent – Live At Leeds returns in 2019 with the definitive new music lineup of the year, bringing together the bands and artists primed to soundtrack the year ahead. Fizzing with […]
Sheffield’s biggest ever party,Tramlines Festival, has announced the first wave of acts to play its 11th edition from Friday 19th – Sunday 21st July at Hillsborough Park. Headliners include Two Door Cinema Club (Friday), Courteeners (Saturday) and Nile Rodgers & Chic (Sunday), plus a slew of other top talent in the form of Manic Street Preachers, Rag’n’Bone Man, Doves, Happy […]
Reading and Leeds Festival has today lifted the lid on another fifty acts who will play at this year’s event – with chart heavyweights Charli XCX, Royal Blood (UK festival exclusive), CHVRCHES, Lil Uzi Vert, Enter Shikari, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes (UK festival exclusive), Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals (UK festival exclusive) and You Me At Sixamongst the new additions. The […]
A band that used to make me insanely happy was London’s Palma Violets. Lead vocalist Sam Fryer and two of his former band mates (Pete Mayhew and Will Doyle) are now touting for business as members of Gently Tender (together with The Big Moon’s Celia Archer, and guitarist Adam Brown also in the band). Last […]
After selling out for thirteen years in a row, the UK’s most picturesque festival announces another huge lineup for2 019. Courteeners, Doves, Manic Street Preachers, NileRodgers & Chic and Orbital will headline a four-day weekend of music, arts, comedy, food and drink in the Lake District’s Lowther Deer Park between 25th – 28th July. Courteeners have a new album on the horizon and a decade of anthemic […]
It’s 2019 – 12 years since the release of The Wombats’ debut record A Guide To Love Loss and Desperation and what a rollercoaster of a career it has been so far for the Liverpool indie-rockers. Saturday night saw the band headline their first arena show in Leeds, marking a huge step for the band, signalling a return to form for the […]
Single Review: VENUS – Deranged
It’s not often I get genuinely “blown away” by debut singles. On the whole they’re often safe, just a glimmer of a band’s real potential and don’t really sound too ambitious. It’s not often I swear in my reviews either – it just isn’t professional – but that being said…how fucking refreshing to hear a […]
With my beloved working in London, there was chance this week, for me to reorganise the living room so I could recover the turntable out of the small pile in the corner (in my world, a tidy house indicates you just don’t have enough going on), play the new IST IST 12 inch EP Everything […]
The Wombats are about to embark on their highest profile and biggest UK headline tour to date. Six huge shows across the isles, including a night at Leeds’ First Direct Arena this Saturday, will see the 2019 tour further cement the band’s meteoric rise to one of the country’s biggest guitar acts. After a sold-out UK & […]