“Yeah, I guess I gotta do this…” Having just made his faltering way to the little stage in the corner...
‘I’m jumbled up /maybe I’m losing my touch?/but you know I didn’t have it anyway!” sings Ian McCulloch, wryly, on...
Emerging some five years ago out of the thriving DIY scene that exists around San Francisco’s famous Amoeba Music –...
Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre is pretty steep when you enter. But having parked myself and son near the top of this...
‘Sorry Edimbourgh, did no-one tell you about the dressing up party?’ Phoebe Killdeer and Mélanie Pain are gently mocking us,...
Things I don’t really understand about the music biz (part 472): bands who go on tour BEFORE an album comes...
OK, let’s deal with this first. Brown Horse come from Norfolk, for some reason one of the parts of these...
It was July 2005, when I first saw Editors but remember it like it was last week. It was a...
Formed in 2016 in France’s fourth largest metropolis, Toulouse, SLIFT is a heavy psych-rock trio comprising brothers Jean (guitar, lead vocals, synthesizers) and Remí...
If the words “I wanna stay young” mean anything to you, then you should have been in the MOTH Club...
Being a fan of a band that have had the career that Simple Minds have had is akin to supporting...
From hardcore heavyweights to a household name, recent years have seen Knocked Loose grow evermore prolific in stature. Playing quite...
Where is she? My Gen-X brain had this fanciful thought that Winona Ryder might be hanging out here. Reality bites...
New discoveries are always exciting, which is exactly what Leeds-based DIY thrash band Pest Control were to me this time...
There’s been a lot in the news recently about the plight of grassroots music venues in the UK, and quite...