Fans of Wild Beasts and Hayden Thorpe will be delighted to know that he is preparing to revisit his former years with the band by performing the Wild Beasts songbook. Playing entirely solo, the shows will be an exploration of the collection in their purest form – voice and instrument, as they were written. These intimate shows…
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Making its debut at the beautiful Hatfield Park on Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th August. The Great Fete has a great lineup for both days including: Dizzee Rascal, SIGMA, Faithless, Ocean Colour Scene, Feeder, The Hoosiers, DJ Luck & MC Neat, Inner City, Derrick Carter, Oxide & Neutrino, Kenny Dope, Norman Jay and Lisa Loud. Saturday…
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On 15 May 2026, the Museum of Youth Culture opens in Camden as the UK’s first permanent institution dedicated to preserving youth culture as a defining force in modern British history. Founded in 1997 by Jon Swinstead, Jamie Brett joined in 2012, together developing the organisation as a simple photo archive in a shed. Photographs were gathered before they were lost.…
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Summer festival season is on the horizon at last! Here’s our annual fabulous festival guide to see you through from mid May to the end of September. The festival landscape has been changing rapidly over the past few years as events struggle to keep afloat; we’ve said goodbye to a number of much-loved ones. On…
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Welcome Spring! I couldn’t find a better way to usher in the season of renewal than with the evening of folk and experimental artists at Moth Club for a joyous celebration. Having attended the equally appealing Samhain (Halloween) concert at Earth Hackney, this felt like an appropriate reconnection. Scottish singer, songwriter and Clàrsach player, Anna McLuckie…
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Liquid DnB heavyweights, Technimatic, bring their much loved For All Of Us concept to the intimate settings of Patterns in Brighton on Saturday 9th May. From 4:00pm til 9:00pm (Last entry 6:00pm)Patterns Brighton Marine Parade Brighton, BN2, Brighton, BN2 1TL Tickets are selling fast and are on third release!
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Head for this end-of-summer party at the glorious beach setting in Northumberland. And the lineup for Lindisfarne isn’t half bad either… an eclectic mix of dance and folk, with Faithless, The Proclaimers and Razorlight heading the bill. There’s also Ferocious Dog, Utah Saints, Heather Small, Ashley Singh, Tide Lines and more playing over the weekend…
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I have been a fan of the Daylight Music Saturday afternoon concert series for many years since their early home at London’s Union Chapel. Daylight Music, run by Arctic Circle, has been presenting a huge and diverse range of musicians over the 17 years they’ve been in existence. Taking a couple of hours out of…
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Ella Clayton’s second album Could It Be You? is set for release on 24th April. Meanwhile she’s been dropping the occasional track from this new work, and the latest is the captivating and quirky single called Dolomites. Recorded at George Ezra’s studio Hotel Quebec, Dolomites expresses the desire to be alone. It’s the perfect vehicle…
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Halifax band The Orielles certainly cannot be accused of standing still. And with their new album Only You Left, they push the realms of experimental territory, continuing a journey that has gradually taken them away from their early indie-garagey pop beginnings. That shift became fully apparent on Tableau (2022), a gauzy, fragile record that immersed…
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