What with lockdown, rising production costs, rampant inflation, Brexit red tape, and often dwindling audience figures, the UK’s live music industry has really taken a hammering over the last few…
It’s Independent Venue Week and Temples have chosen one of the very best, Birmingham’s Castle & Falcon, to begin a short tour in its honour. They’ve brought along Zo Lief,…
Nearly one year since the release of his ninth album, FTHC, Frank Turner is back on the road and when he announced his tour dates, there was one in particular…
Crawley’s most internationally acclaimed sons, The Cure, celebrated their 40th Anniversary in 2018 with their 65,000-capacity Hyde Park gig, either side of the shows, Crawley Museum put on The Cure Exhibition. Fans…
If the name Simon Rowe isn’t immediately familiar to you, the names Chapterhouse and Mojave 3 may be more so. He played guitar in both acts – the former one…
Metric returned to Manchester Academy, although this time at the bigger Academy 2. It’s a decent venue, nicely accessible, friendly, good sound, and plenty of bars and cafes within easy…
When: 1st – 3rd June 2023Where: Euston Hall, Suffolk, England Held in the idyllic surroundings of Euston Hall, with its 300 acres of historical private gardens and beautiful rolling parkland,…
Whilst it is literally the second studio album from The Cure, as far as Robert Smith is concerned it’s the first proper Cure LP. If you didn’t already know, Smith…
Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst were the first punks in Crawley, a town just 22 miles South of London, but as Lol Tolhurst said in his memoir Cured, The Tale of Two…
SXSW has made its third announcement of music artists attending the festival come March. The really stressful comment is “More performers will be announced at later dates”. What the heck!…