Oct 30

Jon Hopkins reveals stellar NASA collaboration track “Forever Held”

Today, Jon Hop­kins shares a brand-new track called For­ev­er Held on Domi­no Records. A full orches­tral piece writ­ten by Hop­kins with string arrange­ments by Óla­fur Arnalds, it’s an emo­tive and deeply peace­ful piece of cin­e­mat­ic music which touch­es on “themes of our Earth and its con­text with­in space”.  In com­mon with many of Hop­kins’ com­po­si­tions, For­ev­er Held calms the…

 Read More
Oct 29

Fireworks Festival at Alexandra Palace

Head to Ally Pal­ly, North Lon­don, for the Fire­works Fes­ti­val this week­end, tak­ing place on the 1st and 2nd Novem­ber. London’s biggest and best Fire­works dis­play will be sound­tracked by a spe­cial­ly curat­ed playlist. This year’s dis­play will be pre­ced­ed by a spec­tac­u­lar drone show, mark­ing an excit­ing first for a Lon­don bon­fire event. Along­side the…

 Read More
Oct 25

Autumn and winter music festivals: the list 2024

There are plen­ty of autumn and win­ter fes­ti­vals hap­pen­ing around the coun­try, help­ing liv­en up these dark and drea­ry months. No tents involved. Most­ly at cities and towns around the UK with sev­er­al mul­ti-venue events, one-day or week­enders. Check these good­ies out… and check back as we are adding lots more! WOMEX 23–28 Octo­ber Man­ches­ter is…

 Read More
Shiiine On new 2025 event....
Oct 24

SHIIINE ON Weekender announces lineup

The spe­cial one-off But­lins Skeg­ness 3 day week­ender SHIIINE ON takes place 28–31 March 2025 and now has a line­up announce­ment. THE WONDER STUFF || INSPIRAL CARPETS, ASH || PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT head­line. Also appear­ing are: Ned’s Atom­ic Dust­bin, 808 State, Glasve­gas, Jim Bob, Jesus Jones, Utah Saints, Dub Pis­tols, The Wed­ding Present,…

 Read More
Oct 18

W. H. Lung unveils album Every Inch of Earth Pulsates

Some bands are meant to be seen live and W H Lung is right up there. The ener­gy that bounces from stage to crowd and back again is elec­tric, espe­cial­ly with dynam­ic and expres­sive front man Jo Evans prowl­ing the stage. For their third album, Every Inch of Earth Pul­sates, it’s that live expe­ri­ence that…

 Read More
Oct 14

My Midnight Heart drops new track “anew”

The aim of Bris­­tol-based, New York-bred Angéli­ca Allen is to craft dreamy yet dance­able Avant-Pop with her project MyMid­night­Heart – and with new work called “Anew” she most def­i­nite­ly suc­ceeds, com­bin­ing ethe­re­al har­monies, hyp­not­ic drums, and sur­re­al sound­scapes. Her work is mul­ti-lay­ered, send­ing lis­ten­ers into a calm­ing and dreamy space. Angéli­ca retreat­ed from per­form­ing to focus…

 Read More
Oct 9

Red Sky July release single from upcoming album

Red Sky July release the sec­ond sin­gle, Stones and Bram­bles, from their upcom­ing, fourth album. A gen­tle love song over a fin­ger-pick­­ing gui­tar arpeg­gio, Stones and Bram­bles is deeply per­son­al, writ­ten by band mem­ber Shelly Poole in the after­math of gui­tarist – and her hus­band – Ally McErlaine’s brain haem­or­rhage. We’re lov­ing this beau­ti­ful track…

 Read More
Oct 5

A Moonless Night album and film by Snowapple

The women-led col­lec­tive Snowap­ple has been on cre­ative over­drive this year, now releas­ing an album and film project called A Moon­less Night. Inter­na­tion­al in mem­bers and in out­look, Snowap­ple has been togeth­er since 2013, with a pro­lif­ic out­put that has seen them involved with a mul­ti­tude of projects: move­ment, the­atre, mime, pup­petry, music, singing, poetry,…

 Read More
Oct 3

Womex Festival, Manchester 23–28th October

Man­ches­ter icon DJ Paulette to host Open­ing Night Con­cert. There are plen­ty of excit­ing events at the 30th edi­tion of WOMEX Fes­ti­val, tak­ing place in Man­ches­ter lat­er this month. WOMEX (World­wide Music Expo), gives music fans a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to access this pres­ti­gious music indus­try event, and dis­cov­er over 50 live acts from across the world…

 Read More
Sep 24

New Shirley Baker online exhibition “Pavement Cracks”

Unseen Vin­tage Street Pho­tographs  Online Exhi­bi­tion: 24th Sep­tem­ber – 1st Novem­ber 2024.  The Cen­tre for British Pho­tog­ra­phy is hold­ing a new online exhi­bi­tion of street pho­tog­ra­ph­er Shirley Bak­er’s images. Tak­ing its name from a recur­ring motif in Lemn Sissay’s poem Flags, Pave­ment Cracks unveils pre­vi­ous­ly unseen images cap­tured by Shirley, tak­en in and around Man­ches­ter. The Cen­tre’s…

 Read More