The Travelling Band are a Manchester folk-collective who are at first glance seem unremarkable and whose ambitions remain distinctly unambitious. The name doesn’t help, harking back as it does to an imagined sixties nostalgia land of Woodstock and Monterey; reconstituted… Continue Reading
“Good things come to those who wait” – it would appear that George Ezra obviously didn’t get that memo. Since the release of his first EP Did You Hear the Rain? in October 2013, Ezra has ridden the back of… Continue Reading
“Who the fuck are you?’ asks one ignorant onlooker, with the impertinent indifference that is so commonly witnessed in a support acts audience. Soon though this ennui turns to a hushed, but focused, silence as Rhodes begins to win over the initially… Continue Reading
When we heard that Timber Timbre were playing Bristol, it’s fair to say that we got a little bit excited. The Canadians, after all, were responsible for arguably 2014’s best track, the seductive “Hot Dreams” (“I wanna dance…I wanna dance…I… Continue Reading
When, after the fey slowness of her opening track, Canadian songstress Gianna Lauren dubs her role at The Canteen as simply to provide “afternoon lullabies during your Sunday roast,” it is as apt a phrase to describe her delicate, half… Continue Reading
“I hate festivals, no one’s really up for crying at festivals,” jokes Luke Sital-Singh as he introduces the evening’s fourth track, ‘Inaudible Sigh.’ Further expressing his imaginings of starting his own annual event by the name of “Depressed-tival,” these are… Continue Reading
As he stands on the Louisiana stage, Oldham born Kiran Leonard’s unkempt visage of no shoes, odd socks, casual attire and a mop of ‘dragged-through-a-hedge’ blondish-brown hair, gives off the aura of an A-Level student basking in the slovenly bliss… Continue Reading
For those yet to hear the hype, Tune-Yards is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Merrill Garbus – at one time critically acclaimed but criminally underappreciated, the outfit is steadily gaining momentum, as recent airplay and tonight’s sold out gig attest. Relying… Continue Reading