Wet Leg, English Teacher and Los Bitchos shine in the sun at Ally Pally: photo gallery

On a beau­ti­ful evening with the sun­set glow­ing through the win­dows of Alexan­dra Palace, the sun-soaked crowd mean­dered through the park and onto the grassy slopes to enjoy three fan­tas­tic acts. Los Bitchos got the crowd into par­ty spir­it with their dance-ori­en­t­ed Turk­ish dis­co sound. Next were Eng­lish Teacher who I’ve seen many times since their…

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Dovetailed release beguiling track “Kethers”

Glas­gow musi­cians Kim Grant of Rav­eloe and Simon Lid­dell of Olympic Swim­mers / Fright­ened Rab­bit have formed a new col­lab­o­ra­tive project called Dove­tailed. And their new num­ber called Kethers fea­tures drum­ming and gui­tar from Jon­ny Scott (Chvrch­es) Dove­tailed’s sound is giv­en its full­ness by Kim’s rich vocals that suf­fuse the track with a shim­mery, dream…

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The Coral announce new tour – and a video

The Coral have announced their first head­line UK tour in almost three years a month after releas­ing their thir­teenth album, 388. There’s a run of six shows, plus three are­na sup­port dates with The Mary Wal­lop­ers, and a simul­ta­ne­ous release of a new video for opti­mistic new sin­gle, Leave It In The Past. The album 388 was ful­ly released at the…

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HENGE to commence 75-show tour

One of the most unique and pop­u­lar bands on the fes­ti­val cir­cuit is undoubt­ed­ly space-rock genius­es, HENGE. And the Man­ches­ter cos­mic rock col­lec­tive are about to com­mence their, cur­rent­ly 75-date ‘world tour’ span­ning the UK, Europe, Cana­da, USA and Mex­i­co with more to be announced. There are 18 dates across the UK and Ire­land starting…

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As One In The Park 2026

Come and join As One In the Park’s com­mu­ni­ty! On Sat 18th July at Wal­pole Park, Lon­don’s LGBTQ+ Fes­ti­val returns… with one huge day of music, colour, cock­tails and danc­ing in the heart of Lon­don – across three stages and a full park of par­ty peo­ple 🥳 THREE STAGES. ALL DAY. From house, trib­al, pop and techno…

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Ibiza Proms at Knowle Park

Expe­ri­ence an unfor­get­table jour­ney through Ibiza­’s most icon­ic anthems, brought to life by Sym­phon­ic Ibiza­’s orches­tra, DJ, and vocal­ists. Cel­e­brat­ing over 30 years of leg­endary Ibiza club hits, Sym­phon­ic Ibiza reimag­ines them in a total­ly unique way – fus­ing euphor­ic dance anthems with soar­ing vocals, breath­tak­ing orches­tra­tion, and high-ener­­gy live per­for­mance. Get ready for a…

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Panda Bear & Sonic Boom announce new album A ? of WHEN

Tak­ing things off line and get­ting back to real con­nec­tiv­i­ty is what Pan­da Bear and Son­ic Boom are cham­pi­oning right now. The duo have announced a new album A ? of WHEN, release date July 10th, on Domi­no. The album will be avail­able on vinyl, CD, cas­sette and down­load only and there are lis­ten­ing par­ties for…

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Alone Together event at Rich Mix, June 27th

As con­cerns around lone­li­ness, dig­i­tal fatigue and the decline of shared social spaces con­tin­ue to grow, elec­tron­ic music artist and researcher Jamie Red­ding­ton (Sound of Frac­tures) is explor­ing a sim­ple ques­tion: can live music events be bet­ter  designed for human con­nec­tion? On Sat­ur­day 27 June, his project Alone Togeth­er returns to Lon­don fol­low­ing a pilot…

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Everywhere At Once multi-venue festival news

Fes­ti­vals tend to grab all the atten­tion over the sum­mer but our much-loved grass­roots venues need sup­port too! So this new ven­ture called Every­where At Once is the per­fect way to entice you back into some of our great venues for a gig. The umberel­la organ­i­sa­tions pre­sid­ing over it all is lead­ing char­i­ty Music Venue Trust…

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Jim Ghedi single ‘The Hungry Child’

Jim Ghedi’s new sin­gle called The Hun­gry Child has just been released on Basin Rock. A stark­ly bleak track, and more polit­i­cal than his pre­vi­ous work, Jim com­ments on the idea for The Hun­gry Child thus: “I want­ed to push the sound even more heav­ier, chaot­ic almost like cap­tur­ing the sound of destruc­tion, as things…

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