8th Feburary 2016 TIP OF THE WEEKWhat: BBC Radio 6 Music Festival // Where: Various // When: Fri 12th – Sun 14th Feb // Cost: £25 The BBC Radio 6 Music Festival 2016 will take place at venues across the city from 12 to 14 February. The festival will… Continue Reading
23rd November 2015 Success of the kind Mecury Music Prize nominated Ghostpoet (Obara Ejimiwe) is currently achieving can be something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand extra album sales and waves of new fans bring with it many perks and… Continue Reading
2nd September 2015 Finally selling out in the days before this evening’s show, in fact around the time their current UK tour was kicking off in Sheffield two nights prior, Toronto based indie pop five-piece Alvvays (pronounced Always) brought… Continue Reading
22nd July 2015 Bowling into town like a Steinbeck dust cloud, former New York buskers The Felice Brothers could easily be mistaken for being characters lifted right out of one of the great mans novels, given their achingly beautiful… Continue Reading
26th June 2015 Unexpectedly, we learnt that Friday’s concert would be the final night of the 2015 series organised by Metropolis Music, due to the cancellation of Saturday’s finale, featuring Jessie J. However, for those lucky enough to bear… Continue Reading
16th June 2015 After an impressive slot supporting Dum Dum Girls at the very same venue in May of last year (a line up with a whiff of nepotism considering Crocodiles frontman Brandon Welchez’s marriage to Dee Dee Penny),… Continue Reading
11th June 2015 With third album Ivy Tripp still glowing from the universal praise received from all the major players of the musical press upon its release two months ago, it is with some anticipation that the slowly expanding… Continue Reading
6th June 2015 During the ‘David Bowie Is…’ exhibition at The Victoria and Albert Museum in 2013, Geordie singer-songwriter Beth Jeans Houghton had an epiphany; inspired by the Thin White Duke’s taste for reinvention, this was the inception of… Continue Reading