Daylight music: coffee, cakes and one hot chip

Gigs dur­ing the day­time are such a great idea. Instead of the usu­al beers and warm white wine, at an event run by Day­light Music you can enjoy a cup of tea, deli­cious home made cakes, plus quiche and sausage rolls – there’s also a selec­tion of chil­dren’s drinks too. Then spend a cou­ple of…

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The Bowie Show at Golders Green Hippodrome

The Bowie Show last night at the Gold­ers Green Hip­po­drome was a bit of a leap into the unknown – both in terms of the venue and the per­for­mance. How­ev­er cre­ative direc­tor Simon Gwilliam’s vision shone bril­liant­ly, brought to life by his Goon Squad: a young, vibrant cast of musi­cians and dancers with tech­ni­cal skill…

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Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions release Cold Blows the Rain

The ‘dark side’ of the Calder val­ley allows no light dur­ing win­ter, and its drain­ing effects on the human soul are more than just myth. There’s a bleak­ness that is all-encom­­pass­ing, set­tling over the moors and deep val­ley sides, while res­i­dents hun­ker down and await spring. But draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from the stark beau­ty of this…

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Day Fever – Liverpool 8th February

Yes we’re fans of day­time club­bing. Suits us just fine to dance our socks off and head off home at 8pm for hot choco­late, a few Hob­nobs and the tel­ly. And the day time club­bing event start­ed by Vicky McClure, Jon­ny Owen and Rev­erend and the Mak­ers is head­ing to Camp & Fur­nace, Liv­er­pool on…

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Winter and Spring festivals around the UK

There are plen­ty of win­ter fes­ti­vals hap­pen­ing around the coun­try, help­ing liv­en up these dark and drea­ry months. Thank­ful­ly, no tents involved. There are a few events we’re sad to see have decid­ed to take a sab­bat­i­cal – but not sur­pris­ing with the costs involved so let’s cross our fin­gers that they come back. Nevertheless…

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The Weather Station release new single Body Moves

The last album Igno­rance in 2021 con­vinced us that Tama­ra Lin­de­man and her band are pro­duc­ing some of the most inter­est­ing and orig­i­nal music at the moment. We reviewed Atlantic, a sin­gle from the album, thus: “It is a star­tling, unusu­al and brood­ing work, ele­gant­ly arranged with a lush expan­sive­ness yet suf­fused with ten­sion. A…

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Margate Summer series at Dreamland – the lineup so far

The first phase of the Mar­gate Sum­mer Series line­ups has been announced. The series will return to Dream­land in 2025, span­ning rock, reg­gae, elec­tron­i­ca and pop. Super­grass take the stage on Fri­day, 20th June, along­side spe­cial guests Jake Bugg and The Coral. On Sat­ur­day 12th July the Mar­gate Reg­gae Fes­ti­val takes over Dream­land. Head­lined by UB40…

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Top albums, EPs & singles of 2024

This has been an excep­tion­al year for new releas­es of all gen­res with per­haps a lean­ing towards shoegaze/­­dream-pop on this list. Bill Ryder-Jones got the year off to a great start with the inspired Iechyd Da while Father John Misty’s Mahash­mashana slipped in as a late Novem­ber clos­er and is per­haps my album of the year.…

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Victorious festival 2025 first announcements!

KINGS, QUEENS AND VAMPIRES SET TO DESCEND ON VICTORIOUS FESTIVAL 2025 Set on the pic­turesque South­sea seafront, mul­ti-award-win­n­ing Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val (22/23/24 August 2025) – the UK’s biggest met­ro­pol­i­tan fes­ti­val – has today announced a mas­sive billing of head­lin­ers along­side a host of amaz­ing artists and come­di­ans for the ulti­mate August Bank Hol­i­day week­ender. On top of today’s…

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