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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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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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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Pitchfork Music Festival took over Village Underground for a fantastic and pretty loud night with Party Dozen, Ratboys and Upchuck. First on stage were Sidney-based Party Dozen, a duo on drums and sax, whipping things into a frenzy. Chicago band Ratboys played a blinder of a set with an avalanche of rippling country-tinged guitars, all…
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As Halloween morphs into an ever-more garish orgy of plastic spiders, eyeballs and and other assorted landfill, how much more satisfying it is to turn to its more ancient and spiritual side. Samhain, the ancient Gaelic festival, marks the end of the Celtic year, it’s a time when ‘the veil between the supernatural and the physical…
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Wet Leg fans – we have news. They have announced their biggest headline shows to date, performing at iconic outdoor venues in Manchester, Leeds and London in July 2026, with special guests English Teacher. The three-date run begins at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl on 8th July, followed by Leeds Millenium Square on the 9th, concluding at London’s Alexandra Palace Park on 10th July. Tickets go on…
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There seems to be no stopping Sparks who have just added to their prolific output with a new EP called MADDER!, a extension of the recent MAD! album. The Mael brothers have described the birth of this new work: “Not wanting the Mad!ness to end and buoyed by the phenomenal reaction to MAD!, we made…
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The track in question is WMG/WMD – a remix by David Holmes, with that riff given a scuzzy quality, combining with Peter Perrett’s distinctive careworn and vulnerable vocals. At the end of last year, Peter Perrett released The Cleansing – his third album for Domino which featured Johnny Marr, Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell and Tom Coll, Bobby Gillespie, Dream Wife guitarist Alice Go…
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When Lael Neale toured the UK earlier this year it was great to find the venue so packed — a sign that others have discovered what a quietly brilliant artist she is. Her album Altogether Stranger shows her songwriting at its most focused and affecting (see review here). Today, Lael Neale is sharing the official…
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Hot Chip share two new remixes of Ready For The Floor – their highest charting single yet – by UK producer Mella Dee. On the Mella Dee Dub version, Mella Dee teases out the track to seven minutes focusing and slowing down Alexis Taylor’s singular vocals: “Do It Do It Do It Now.” whilst the Spanglecore Dub…
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