People are sporting paper party hats in the Moth Club as they sip from plastic cups in its brown leather...
There is something wonderfully fitting about the venue for this “homecoming” debut album release show. The bad men are exactly...
Katzenjammer is no more, but one quarter of it remains in the iridescent form of Sol Heilo, who played her...
If this is Eggland, you better check your hostilities at the door. Lancaster’s oddball outfit, The Lovely Eggs don’t want...
It is May 1982, and although I do like Madness, I am, at this point, a huge fan of Adam...
There are surely far worse ways to spend an otherwise empty Monday evening in March. But having chosen to do...
Ten years after its release, Frightened Rabbit went back on the road with Midnight Organ Fight, their second studio album...
Today has been a good day for Richard Dawson. It began with a three-year-old child first offering the Geordie songwriter...
It’s always a special night when Cabbage are in town, and tonight they are appearing at Birmingham’s excellent Castle &...
The New York Dolls, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, early Manic Street Preachers, Placebo erm Maryiln Manson. Rock history is littered...
“Are you lonesome tonight?” sings Breagh MacKinnon in tonight’s opener, ‘Where have you been’ sampling The King’s lyrics with killing...
For those who inhabit the world of popular music the name of the Brodsky Quartet is probably familiar due to...
It might only be a couple of songs into what turns out to be a mammoth two hour set, but...
“Same as it ever was.” Heralded on stage by Weasel Walter’s free-form drum rumble, this is Lydia Lunch’s opening salvo....
If you are at all familiar with the northern jazz scene, you will have no doubt heard two names mentioned...