With the eyes of The Big Yin staring down into the basement venue of The Old Toll Bar, some could...
The collaboration between Liam Gallagher and John Squire – respectively the former lead singer with Oasis and The Stone Roses’...
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...
My first sighting of Bill Ryder-Jones was at the Glastonbury Festival in 2002. He was then the lead guitarist with The Coral, the...
“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...
Pop music is in an interesting place in the 20s, very different to its place in the 10s or the...
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...