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
4th June 2015 Melding melancholic electro with a bluegrass soul North Carolinian natives Sylvan Esso are currently on the crest of a wave and come to Bristol’s Marble Factory with the kind of swagger that only an unstoppable momentum can imbue.… Continue Reading
20th May 2015 Lets get this out of the way first: Swans are very, very loud. You don’t get a reputation for being the loudest band in rock, and hand out free ear buds at your shows, without some justification. But… Continue Reading
11th May 2015 With frontman Sam France’s penchant for volatile stage antics (smashing himself in the face with a microphone, climbing speaker-stacks, confronting hecklers, breaking his own leg), Californian psychedelic rockers Foxygen have established a growing reputation for… Continue Reading
5th April 2015 As the years go by the guitar band has become an increasingly endangered beast, a sadly inevitable consequence of the ever dwindling ability of those who wield the “axe” to find new and inventive ways of adding to the sonic… Continue Reading