Dec 13

Favourite albums of 2025

This year has pro­duced a boun­ty of rich­es of incred­i­ble vari­ety and wild imag­i­na­tion, com­menc­ing in Jan­u­ary with a top­i­cal­ly suit­able release by Brid­get Hay­den called Cold Blows the Wind, before mov­ing on to the sun­ny sounds of Divorce (if that does­n’t sound too odd). And there’s a bit of a Bru­tal­ist theme going on…

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Dec 8

Trixies – Squeeze new release of earliest songs

Squeeze have just dropped the sec­ond track from upcom­ing album Trix­ies (6th March 2026). Rather than pre­sent­ing us with a set of new songs, Chris Dif­ford and Glenn Tilbrook have wound back the years, dust­ing off a cas­sette of their ear­li­est mate­r­i­al – a con­cept album they wrote and record­ed when Glenn was just 16…

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Dec 5

Ireland’s Side 4 Collective release sophomore album ‘When We Were Still’ 

When We Were Still, released on Novem­ber 28 via AMS Records, was spear­head­ed by Irish drum­mer Dave Hinger­ty and his Side 4 Col­lec­tive and he brings an eclec­tic array of Irish and inter­na­tion­al artists togeth­er, cre­at­ing songs using his pre-writ­ten melod­ic and pri­mal drum pat­terns.  Each track on When We Were Still was record­ed dur­ing Covid, and…

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Dec 3

Wet Leg unveil new video for album track Pokemon

With a strong nar­ra­tive and sat­u­rat­ed colours, up comes the new egg-themed video by Wet Leg for the song Poke­mon. The video was direct­ed by Elliott Arndt of Faux Real – a fre­quent tour sup­port for Wet Leg. It’s a sto­ry about a girl (played by Alice Longyu Gao) in an unusu­al rela­tion­ship with a giant egg,…

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Nov 28

Immersed Festival – back in Cardiff, March 2026

Immersed Fes­ti­val returns for 2026 with an action-packed fusion of music, film, art, fash­ion and the­atre for a month-long cel­e­bra­tion of cre­ativ­i­ty and imag­i­na­tion, fea­tur­ing over 30 bands and artists across four themed stages. Kick­ing off on Sat­ur­day 7th March, Immersed 26 will show­case a diverse range of tal­ent and cre­ative expres­sion in Cardiff. Head­lin­ing the main fes­ti­val event at Tramshed are eclec­tic six-piece CVC (main…

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Nov 28

The Maccabees to perform at the Harbourside Ampitheatre, Bristol, 23rd July

For the first time in 14 years, The Mac­cabees return to Bris­tol per­form­ing at the beau­ti­ful Bris­tol Har­bour­side Amphithe­atre for an out­door sum­mer show. Pre­sale tick­ets are already sold out. Pub­lic sale tick­ets sale com­menced Fri 28th Nov 10am – tick­ets are still avail­able. Since The Mac­cabees reunit­ed in 2024, things have been going well them…

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Nov 22

Squeeze announce Tried, Tested and Trixies tour

Tick­ets go on gen­er­al sale Novem­ber 28, 2025 at 09:30. The tour will sup­port grass­roots venues, artists and pro­mot­ers, plus the anti-pover­­ty char­i­ty Trussell Trust. And the new album Trix­ies is set for release March 6, 2026. Fol­low­ing the announce­ment of their new stu­dio album Trix­ies, Squeeze announce the most ambi­tious UK tour of their 50+ year career. Found­ed in…

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Nov 20

Good Times Live brings The Human League plus Marc Almond to Bristol on May 20th

Good Times Live 2026 has announced its lat­est head­lin­er, The Human League, who are set to bring a wave of their sig­na­ture synth-pop nos­tal­gia to The Rid­ings, Chip­ping Sod­bury, on Wednes­day 20th May 2026. From 6:00pm til 11:00pm The leg­endary trio will take fans through a live set packed with era-defin­ing anthems, includ­ing Don’t You Want Me, Love Action (I Believe in Love),…

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Nov 19

Animal Collective release original soundtrack for documentary Jetty via Domino Soundtracks

Tex­tur­al and atmos­pher­ic, Ani­mal Collective’s Deakin and Geologist’s orig­i­nal sound­track to the 2025 doc­u­men­tary Jet­ty has just been released by Domi­no Sound­tracks. The sound­track is avail­able dig­i­tal­ly, with a vinyl release set for April 17th.  Jet­ty is a new non­fic­tion film by Sam Fleis­chn­er (Stand Clear of the Clos­ing Doors, Wah Do Dem and he also has cre­at­ed music videos…

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Nov 19

Charm of Finches release new single ‘Meteor’ with video

Aus­tralian alt folk-pop duo Charm of Finch­es – sis­ters Mabel and Ivy Win­­dred-Wornes – are back. Their beguil­ing new sin­gle is called Mete­or, the first of a series of planned releas­es over the com­ing months that will form their high­ly antic­i­pat­ed fifth album. Inspired by the pow­er­ful forces of nature that reflect a tumul­tuous inner world,…

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