Pale Blue Eyes play The Golden Lion, Todmorden

Catchy indie-pop band Pale Blue Eyes are reap­pear­ing at The Gold­en Lion, Tod­mor­den, on Sep­tem­ber 17th for a gig, along with Warm Parts and DJ Richard Nor­ris. The band will be releas­ing their sec­ond EP – New Colours, on Gold­en Lion Sounds as a 12″ vinyl and dig­i­tal  The EP also fea­tures three remix­es by…

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Takuya Nakamura live and supports, Sheffield, tickets

Thurs­day 15th Octo­ber 2026, FORGE in Sheffield. 7pm-11pm Orig­i­nal­ly from Tokyo, Japan, Takuya Naka­mu­ra moved to the Unit­ed States in 1990 to study under the leg­endary jazz the­o­rist and com­pos­er George Rus­sell at the New Eng­land Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music. Under Rus­sel­l’s tute­lage, Naka­mu­ra honed his craft and devel­oped a pro­found under­stand­ing of jazz the­o­ry and com­po­si­tion, which…

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Clinic to release tenth album Wild In the Streets in October

Exper­i­men­tal and high­ly inven­tive artists Clin­ic have announced a new album: Wild In The Streets, set for release on Octo­ber 30th (Domi­no Records). They have just released a taster in the form of the sin­gle, You And I. At one time with four mem­bers, they now con­sist of duo Ade Black­burn and Jonathan Hart­ley. Clinic…

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Call It Want You Want – new anthemic single by Fat Dog

They know how to pump out the bangers and get the crowds going. Fat Dog’s lat­est track has just been released as fes­ti­val sea­son draws to a close. Call It What You Want was debuted at Woof­s­tock show in Bermond­sey (see the video, below). Call It What You Want suits the flam­boy­ant front­man Joe Evans,…

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LIDO festival photo gallery

LIDO fes­ti­val at Vic­to­ria Park, east Lon­don, resched­uled for Bank Hol­i­day Mon­day, was a beau­ti­ful­ly chilled and uplift­ing day. From the line­up, fea­tured in order: Yemz, MADMADMAD, Theo Par­rish B2B Moody­mann, Lady Wray, Marie David­son (live), Kelis, LTJ Bukem, Kel­ly Lee Owens (DJ set) and Mari­bou State. LIDO fes­ti­val, August 31, 2026 | LIDO festival

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Autumn and winter festival guide 2026–27

The tent may be packed away but fes­ti­vals are car­ry­ing on at venues around the coun­try through­out autumn and win­ter. From all-day­ers to week­enders, from city events embrac­ing a mul­ti­tude of grass­roots venues, to small, spe­cialised gath­er­ings in pubs up and down the land. Designed to give you an uplift­ing fes­ti­val expe­ri­ence even in the…

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Little Grandad at King’s Cross Summer Sounds 26

Lon­don band Lit­tle Grandad appeared at King’s Cross Sum­mer Sounds free fes­ti­val this year. It’s hard­ly sur­pris­ing that this tal­ent­ed group of musi­cians have risen so quick­ly through the ranks – gor­geous har­monies and heart­felt songs that lean towards Amer­i­cana are their stock in trade. It was only ear­li­er this year that I saw them supporting…

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Ezra Collective album launch DJ set, Liverpool

Jacaran­da Records presents an inti­mate DJ set with Ezra Col­lec­tive in cel­e­bra­tion of their new album ‘Here Because of Hope.’ Thurs­day 17th Sep­tem­ber 2026 This takes place at the Jacaran­da Baltic in Liv­er­pool, from 7:00pm til 9:00pm (Per­for­mance starts 8:00pm) This is a 18+ event. Under 18s must be accom­pa­nied by a respon­si­ble adult (1:1 ratio) Albums can be…

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A State of Trance: Drumsheds, London – 25 Years of ASOT

A State of Trance Lon­don lands at Drumsheds on Sat­ur­day 14th Novem­ber 2026 for the first-ever indoor ASOT fes­ti­val in the UK, cel­e­brat­ing 25 years of one of elec­tron­ic music’s most icon­ic glob­al brands. Head­lined by Armin van Buuren, this land­mark edi­tion brings the full scale of A State of Trance to one of London’s…

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God Save the Queens – new London festival

God Save The Queens is a new Lon­don fes­ti­val ded­i­cat­ed to the past, present and future of female punk. The event will fea­ture a spe­cial show at Elec­tric Brix­ton on Fri­day 16th Octo­ber, fea­tur­ing a super­group of she punk leg­ends, reimag­in­ing the Poly Styrene playlist and she punk anthems. The show is part of a…

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