It’s been 10 years since we last saw Jack Peñate in Bristol. Then, he was playing the 1100 capacity Anson Rooms in support of his critically-acclaimed second album, “Everything Is New” , fresh off the back of a sub-headline slot on the John Peel stage at Glastonbury. Tonight it’s a much more intimate affair at […]
Continue ReadingLIVE REVIEW: Skunk Anansie – Bristol o2 Academy, 19th August 2019
Skunk Anansie are celebrating 25 years since the release of their debut LP, “Paranoid and Sunburnt”. Rather than taking the popular approach of playing that record in full, they are using the opportunity to honour the catalogue they have built up over that period. Lead singer, Skin, tells the sold out crowd that they have […]
Continue ReadingLIVE: Neneh Cherry – SWX, Bristol – 17th Feb 2019
It has always been difficult to describe Neneh Cherry‘s musical style. She’s spent the 30 years since her breakthrough album, Raw Like Sushi, navigating her way through a seemingly endless variety of genres. Each record is different from the one before and it is because of this continuous innovation that she is still selling out […]
Continue ReadingLIVE: Art Brut – Exchange, Bristol – 16th Feb 2019
It has been more than 7 years since Art Brut‘s last album and tour and now the post-punk band are back with a run of club shows in support of their new album, Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out!
Continue ReadingREVIEW: Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena – 2nd Feb 2019
Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls made their return to Cardiff Motorpoint arena as part of the UK leg of the “Be More Kind” world tour. Despite being at this very venue in both 2014 and 2017, with the latter date being support for Blink-182, a lot has changed in such a short space of […]
Continue ReadingREVIEW: Art Brut – “Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out”
Art Brut burst on to the mid-noughties indie scene back in 2005 with their album “Bang Bang Rock & Roll”. The debut was featured on many top-of-the-year lists, you couldn’t go to an indie disco without hearing single “Formed A Band” and their tracks were featured everywhere from Hollyoaks to Skins. They a further three albums after but these […]
Continue ReadingREVIEW: boygenius – boygenius EP
Off the back of planning a joint tour that starts this month, three of the most important singer-songwriters in music right now have formed a supergroup. Together they are boygenius, comprising of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, and their debut EP is an example of how to do a supergroup well.
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