Author: Olivia

Sep 14

Babyshambles headliners for Skegness Shiiine On weekender

If you’re look­ing for a non-cam­p­ing fes­ti­val ear­ly next year, check out Shi­i­ine On Week­ender, which returns to Butlin’s Skeg­ness from 19–21 March 2027. Babysham­bles are to head­line Sat­ur­day night. Join­ing them on the Sat­ur­day bill are Gene, along­side Shi­i­ine favourites Ned’s Atom­ic Dust­bin. Cast will head­line Fri­day night, with sup­port from Black Grape and Jim Bob, while over in Reds are…

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Sep 14

Sam Burton shares title track from upcoming album ‘Fairweather Friend’

A new album and UK Novem­ber tour for the folk-based artist Sam Bur­ton is a new name to me, and I was instant­ly cap­ti­vat­ed by his expres­sive, emo­­tion-laden vocals on this retro-sound­ing num­ber. Com­fort­ing yet melan­cholic. He has just shared the title-track of his forth­com­ing album Fair­weath­er Friend, set for release on Octo­ber 30 on Cap­tured Tracks. Fair­weath­er Friend explores…

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Sep 13

Magnetic Skies to play live in London

Dark­wave synth pop band Mag­net­ic Skies have an upcom­ing Lon­don gig in Decem­ber, at The Grace, High­bury Cor­ner. Mag­net­ic Skies first came to our atten­tion in 2023 with dreamy and anthemic track You Shine On. The pop­ping synth open­ing notes imme­di­ate­ly trans­port you back to the ’80s, evok­ing shades of Depeche Mode. There’s a overriding…

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Sep 12

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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Sep 11

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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Sep 10

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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Sep 9

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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Sep 2

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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Aug 25

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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Aug 19

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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