With the eyes of The Big Yin staring down into the basement venue of The Old Toll Bar, some could...
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...
Over the years of writing about music, I’ve been fortunate to talk to a lot of amazing musicians. My favourite...
‘I’m jumbled up /maybe I’m losing my touch?/but you know I didn’t have it anyway!” sings Ian McCulloch, wryly, on...
This year marks forty years since The Jesus and Mary Chain burst out of East Kilbride with their incendiary debut...
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...
Nerves are an experimental punk band from the West of Ireland and they release their debut EP Glórach on 15...
OK, let’s deal with this first. Brown Horse come from Norfolk, for some reason one of the parts of these...
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...
It’s easy to think you’ve seen it all before sometimes, especially with the ever-raging cycle of stupidity in the name...
“Musica, nature symphonic”. Australian prog-disco quartet Mildlife celebrate how dissimilar elements in music and life can join together in symbiosis...
From hardcore heavyweights to a household name, recent years have seen Knocked Loose grow evermore prolific in stature. Playing quite...