Anna Calvi’s songwriting is powerful and passionate, while her stage presence is intense and quite inward looking. She doesn’t go for dramatics and audience-pleasing dramatics. She doesn’t need to – those astounding vocals — operatic, unwavering, and rich with emotion are enough. Beyond the impact of her live performances, she has been shifting her focus…
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Here’s our guide to cozy indoor UK music festivals from February to May. Leave the foul weather raging outside and get all toasty inside your favourite venues with a veritable feast of music. Hopefully you’ll find something to float your musical boat and put a spring in your step. And if you know of an…
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Tickets are flying out for Love to Be… festival so get on this! Legendary house music brand Love to be… returns to Harrogate on Saturday 5th September 2026 for another full-scale open-air celebration at The Stray. Following the success of previous editions, the festival returns with an expanded vision, three stages, enhanced production and a phase…
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Bellissimo! Is this one of the most lush festivals ever? Imagine your escape to the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany this summer for an intimate festival that sees you getting involved in pasta making, wine tasting, yoga and more, combined with a bounty of electronic sounds. The event is Flash Festival which began in 2017…
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Well – there’s no messing about with Bearded Theory. Their first announcement came out… eons ago and now they’ve presented us with the FULL 2026 lineup. Feast your eyes, it’s a goodie. Joining Bearded Theory are: Everything Everything, The Horrors, The Twilight Sad, author Irvine Welsh, Ozric Tentacles, BCUC, Sir Chloe, A Guy called Gerald,…
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Jon Hopkins and Icelandic film composer Biggi Hilmars digitally released the soundtrack of Wilding, via Domino Soundtracks, on 16th January, and there’s a physical release due on April 3rd. The documentary Wilding was released in 2024. Wilding follows the story of farmers Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell, who embarked on an environmental project aimed at breathing…
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A vibrant new single has just been released this week by singer-songwriter and composer Tessa Rose Jackson called Built to Collide. The track is out just before her latest album called The Lighthouse drops on 23rd January. Tessa calls it her ‘rant song’, which she describes as “A song about accepting that sometimes you live…
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There’s a purity and simplicity to the delightful track Evergreen In Your Mind, just released as a taster from the upcoming album of the same name by Norwegian singer-songrwriter Juni Habel. The album will be released on April 10th on Basin Rock and Koke Plate. It’s a song that manages to lift you and project…
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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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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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