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LIVE: Bowling For Soup, Leeds O2 Academy, 3/12/18
How could we possibly get through the year without a Bowling For Soup tour cropping up somewhere? It may be December and dangerously close to the end of 2018, yet here we are catching BFS on a cold Monday night on the Almost Christmas tour they’ve squeezed in right before the ball drops for 2019. …
Live: Sunflower Bean – Art School Glasgow 26.11.2018 Plus Gallery
Sunflower Bean blossom on stage in Glasgow performing tracks from their coming of age album ‘Twentytwo in Blue’. “Alright, enough of this silence” shouts vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming to the hushed crowd as Sunflower Bean take to the stage at Glasgow’s recently reopened Art School venue to kick off another night of their extensive …
Live: The Amity Affliction + Support, Church Leeds, 03/10/18
The nights are getting darker and the leaves are tumbling from the trees so it must mean it’s time for the annual fall tour season. Each year The Amity Affliction ditch the Australian summer and dig out their winter coats as they spend time in Europe and the UK towards the end of the year. …
Live: Del Amitri – Glasgow Barrowlands 28.7.2018 Plus Gallery
Del Amitri prove they’re still a hot ticket as they play a scintillating set of live favourites and new material to a sold-out Barrowlands. It’s clear that the weather has changed on this Saturday night in Glasgow – the balmy Scottish summer making way for cool gusts and, appropriately, a hatful of rain. Barrowlands, however, …
Live: Dark Mofo Festival 2018 – Tanya Tagaq, Soundtrack to Nanook of the North
The extraordinary fare served up in Hobart’s annual Dark Mofo Festival continues to astound and delight. Set in the dark mid-winter Hobart, the southernmost point in Australia, the Festival must be one of the most unique and eclectic festivals in the world, both in terms of its setting, its motifs and its events that deliberately …
Live Review: Yo La Tengo – The Church, Leeds – 3rd May 2018
There’s a Riot Going On American indie rockers Yo La Tengo made a welcome return to the UK and Ireland this month for five gigs in support of their 15th release, There’s a Riot Going On, the band’s first full set of originals since 2013’s Fade. Formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984, Yo La …
Live Review: Gregory Porter, Sheffield City Hall 15.4.2018
We’ve had something of a journey, me and Gregory, not that he’s any the wiser to it of course. I mused over it as his rich baritone poured over me in Sheffield City Hall, pinned by the very force of it to my seat. This is not the jazz-lite singer I had assumed on first …
Live Review: Fall Out Boy + Support, Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 28.03.2018 plus Gallery
Getting to the top wasn’t easy for Fall Out Boy, going on hiatus in 2009 was probably the best thing they could’ve done as a band. Each member got to discover who they were individually, after growing up within the public eye as one unit. They returned to the scene again in 2013 full of …