Jul 25

Indie folk singer Hazlett unveils new single Shiver

Indie-folk musi­cian Hazlett has just released his lat­est sin­gle called Shiv­er, tak­en from his upcom­ing EP, out 4th Octo­ber. This com­pletes his Good­bye to the Val­ley Low project. Shiv­er imme­di­ate­ly puts you into a con­tem­pla­tive and rest­ful head­space. Hazlet­t’s vocal style is wist­ful and steady, at times almost whis­pery, but there’s a strong emo­tive pull. The…

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Jul 15

Kaleidoscope festival 2024 photo gallery

Kalei­do­scope fes­ti­val at Alexan­dra Palace and Park, north Lon­don is a real fam­i­ly event with lots going on for chil­dren as well as adults. ‘R’ Voic­es Choir, Huey Mor­gan the Fun Lovin’ Crim­i­nal, Antony Szmierek, The Go! Team, Soul II Soul, Min­istry of Sound Clas­si­cal per­formed on the Main Stage, while at the Fringe Stage…

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W H Lung perform at Oslo Hackney
Jul 9

W H Lung announce new album, new single and live shows

An announce­ment by indie-syn­thy five-piece band W H Lung is always some­thing to cel­e­brate and this lat­est mis­sive will bring their fans great joy. It’s bumper good news: a sin­gle, an album, a video and some live shows.  The band unveil their third and lat­est album on 18th Octo­ber on Melod­ic, which is called, rather majestically,…

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Jun 25

Squeeze proud and honoured to open Glastonbury festival 2024

As they pre­pare for their 50th Anniver­sary Tour, Squeeze’s co-founders Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Dif­ford look for­ward to open­ing Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val when they per­form on the Pyra­mid Stage at mid­day on Fri­day June 28. Says Glen Till­brook: “I was at the 1971 Glas­ton­bury Fayre and it was a life chang­ing expe­ri­ence for me. I didn’t return…

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Jun 24

Ghostpoet reveals long-awaited EP and video

Ghost­po­et, aka Obaro Ejimi­we, is gift­ed with a sub­lime­ly expres­sive voice and togeth­er with his dark lyrics, exam­ines his per­son­al demons and ques­tion his uncer­tain­ty and despair with the state of the world. I did­n’t man­age to see him per­form till 2021 when he appeared at Green Man fes­ti­val. He was in the cav­ernous, dark Far…

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Jun 14

Matty, formerly of BadBadNotGood, unveils new release

Fol­low­ing the announce­ment of his forth­com­ing album POPS, Cana­di­an song­writer and artist Matthew Tavares, aka Mat­ty, for­mer­ly of Bad­Bad­Not­Good, returns with a new dou­ble sin­gle release Mad­ly / Around the World  Mad­ly pos­sess­es an under­stat­ed charm, exud­ing a feel-good, sum­mery warmth that instant­ly pulls you in. The hyp­not­ic ener­gy from the drums and the smooth chord pro­gres­sion com­bine to propel…

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Pigs x 7 on stage
Jun 4

New Brighton Psych Fest announces Stewart Lee to curate a stage

The inau­gur­al Brighton Psych Fest has plen­ty of excite­ment in store, with some of the most com­pelling acts on the live cir­cuit right now and it takes place across sev­er­al of Brighton’s most icon­ic and beloved venues includ­ing Con­corde 2, The Hope & Ruin, The Green Door Store and The Prince Albert. The fes­ti­val has…

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Jun 3

Forwards 2024 closes with The Jesus and Mary Chain

Fol­low­ing last week’s announce­ment of rave pio­neers Under­world being added to the FORWARDSline­up, the Bris­tol fes­ti­val now clos­es its 2024 music pro­gramme with The Jesus and Mary Chain on Sun­day. The mys­te­ri­ous ensem­ble GLASS BEAMS are also play­ing. Also join­ing the 2024 FORWARDS pro­gramme is a col­lec­tion of Big Team’s Next Lev­el ArtistDevel­op­ment Pro­gramme, a…

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May 29

Bearded Theory 24 Sunday photo gallery

Sun­day: One­da, My Bad Sis­ter, Clara Mann, Kather­ine Prid­dy, Eng­lish Teacher, The Orb, Dry Clean­ing, Bode­ga, Fero­cious Dog, Dinasaur Jr.,Big Spe­cial, Des­per­ate Jour­nal­ist, Amyl and the Snif­fers all played. The Beard­ed The­o­ry ‘fam­i­ly Sun­day’ tra­di­tion lives on, and those in fan­cy dress gath­er around the main stage for the judg­ing (win­ners are award­ed two tickets…

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May 28

Bearded Theory 24 Saturday photo gallery and review

An ear­ly high­light of the day was the set by BDRMM. They announced they were from ‘Sun­ny Hull’. Not Soli­hull as my friend mis­heard. Shoegazey and dreamy yet retain­ing an ener­gy and mus­cu­lar­i­ty, their set drew you into a hyp­not­ic state. Watch­ing BDR­M­M’s cre­ative process unfold, and on the bril­liant­ly acces­si­ble Mead­ow stage too, was…

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