As the year draws to a close and the festive season envelops us in its warm embrace, there’s an added layer of joy that comes with the arrival of end…
In part one of two, Bill Cummings and Jim Auton convene to pick out some of their tracks of 2023, in a special end of year podcast. They talk about…
‘Is it anybody’s first gig?’ asks our compere Johnny Lynch AKA The Pictish Trail. Actually, that’s not such a silly question (and indeed, it is the first gig for quite…
After a quiet few years, Fun Lovin’ Criminals have been quite prominent recently, but unfortunately it’s for all the wrong reasons. There’s been quite the Twitter spat going on between…
Liverpool trip hop artist def.fo, aka Tom Powell, has shared his hotly anticipated debut LP, Eternity. A psychedelic kaleidoscope of an album, featuring the best kind of Anglo- American exchange, fusing influences…
So we’ve reached the conclusion of our 100 albums of the year as compiled by a poll of our writers and editors. That’s why it will look a little different…
The prestigious LIVE Awards ceremony was held this year on the 12th of December at The Troxy in London. The LIVE Awards recognise the leading companies and individuals in the £4.5bn UK live…
It’s all so gezellig here. Sarah-Jayne Riedel may have long since left her Netherlands background behind for life in London but she still knows all about the Dutch art of cosiness. The…
I must be getting old. Despite going to 45 gigs and five festivals in this calendar year and probably seeing more than 150 acts in the process, 2023 generally hasn’t…
It may well be the penultimate show of Holy Wave’s gruelling 27 date tour of Europe and the UK – one that began life in Lille in France back on the…