
Live Music: Becky Hill confirmed for Hardwick Festival
Pop royalty Becky Hill is the first headliner confirmed for next year’s Hardwick festival in County Durham. Hardwick 2024 is gearing up for it’s 10th anniversary celebrations, and this is a great way to kick things off, with one of the most exciting music talents the UK has produced in a long time. You can …

Live Review: Teenage Fanclub – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. 08.11.23
Teenage Fanclub have consistently toured over the last few years, and have maintained a strong fan base, nowhere more so, it seems, than this Wednesday evening in Leeds. This time around, the Scottish alternative rock band are supporting their latest album Nothing Lasts Forever, a title somewhat belied by their continued presence on the road, …

Live Review: Piri – Project House, Leeds 08.11.23
As part of a 6-date Extra Hot tour, Piri is showing just how far she has come in the last 12 months, touring pretty much non stop, travelling the world and growing in confidence all the time. With a minimal stage set to work with, Piri and her 2 dancers (Ines Galnares and Millie Gallimore) …

Live Review: FIZZ – Jumbo Records In-Store 28.10.23
FIZZ is the tantalising combination of dodie, Orla Gartland, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown, all outstanding artists in their own right, creating a whole greater than the sum of even the most illustrious parts. There are top 10 solo albums between them (dodie’s Build A Problem, and Gartland’s Woman on the Internet) and Isaac …

Meet: Tony Wright talks to us about 30 years of Terrorvision ahead of anniversary tour
It’s a bright morning as I cross the road to Bloomfield Square. As I open the door and step inside, I’m greeted by the moustache, baseball cap and avuncular demeanour of the proprietor. “Great timing” he says to me, as he finishes cooing over one of the regular’s babies. The proprietor is one Tony Wright, …

Live Review: Skinny Pelembe – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. 08.10.23
If you’ve not come across Skinny Pelembe before, and asked me to describe what you will get, you’ll be setting a difficult task. His background and heritage instill within him a versatility that renders him impossible to pigeon hole. Drifting through hip hop rhythms, laid back indie, electro-rock in the course of his set, it’s …

News: CMAT drops new album ‘Crazymad, for me’ tomorrow
Following the critical acclaim for her single Stay for Something, CMAT drops her new collection of songs tomorrow, October 13. It was a great teaser to her highly-anticipated sophomore album, which promises to be full of the angst and anger that she delivers so skillfully through her writing and performance. CMAT (Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson in …

Live Review: Girl Scout – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 06.10.23
When you think about Swedish music, where does your mind go? Sure, there’s the rich heritage of pop (think Abba, Ace of Base) and EDM (Avicii, Swedish House Mafia). Metal too – with Sweden apparently being second only to Finland for the number of heavy metal bands per capita. What about indie-rock though? Not so …

Live Music: The Gathering Sounds Preview
Back for a 5th year, The Gathering Sounds has assembled a stellar line up for this weekend’s festival in Stockton. Spread across 6 venues in the town, some of the UK’s hottest new talent is on show across the day. Mainstage headliner and local boy Andrew Cushin is certainly one to catch, having spent the …

Live Review: Leeds Festival 2023 – Highlights
Leeds Festival is one of the highlights of the British musical summer calendar, something of a coming of age event for many exam finishers, or those preparing to go to uni or travel the world. It’s a chance for those friends to get together and enjoy the freedom of camping out in Bramham Park to …