When my mum took me and my brother to a fete in Northampton in the 1970s, I unwittingly stumbled into...
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Never trust your first instinct. Your first instinct’ll probably tell you that you don’t like Felix Hagan and the Family....
John FM intrigues with his eclectic and hypnotic style on an EP that examines the gulf between cathartic homemade demo...
Gathering festival is one of the newest additions to the already packed festival calendar. Set in Oxford’s dreaming spires Gathering...
“I wish I had a dollar for each time I took a chance.” Listening to Tom Waits sing the opening line from One...
Twenty one years after it stormed to Number 1 in the charts, Ash are in town to celebrate their classic...
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There’s a lot of anger on this, the former Hold Steady man’s fourth album proper as a solo artist. Anger...