The name of rave-infused, electro-punk oddballs Snapped Ankles’ upcoming album offers up an appealingly straightforward recourse for regular folk in a time of crisis. Tonight’s show arrives eight days before the release of the London-based group’s Hard Times Furious Dancing.… Continue Reading
27th April 2018 Rather than making reference to their touring an album of new material, Sheffield rock outfit Drenge’s ‘Grand Reopening Tour’ alludes to a three year hiatus – both in terms of a headline UK tour and the release… Continue Reading
I’m going to admit this from the off – I don’t think I have the knowledge of or vocabulary to describe the mechanics of music performance to do the masterful John Metcalfe justice in this review. What I will say is… Continue Reading
31st August 2015 TIP OF THE WEEKWhat: Arcadia Bristol // Where: Queens Square // When: Fri 4th – Sat 5th Sept // Cost: Fri £39.50/Sat £45 Arcadia’s first inner city show in the UK is on. And the Spider will be landing in the heart of… 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
8 May 2015 In 2014, Alex Gibney’s biopic Finding Fela provided a compelling insight into the chaotic and debauched life of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, an account of musical brilliance, political dissidence and rampant hedonism. A complex fusion of funk,… Continue Reading
23 April 2015 Polar Bear are experiencing a joyful rejuvenation at present. Following a prolonged hiatus after 2012’s Peepers, the band resuscitated itself with last year’s exquisite In Each and Every One, an album which chopped between the brash and the… Continue Reading
Who is That? Foxygen is the combined forces of of Sam France and Jonathan Rado, the LA songwriting duo who joined together as teenagers in 2005 to play wildly experimental music before being ‘discovered’ by producer Richard Swift in 2009… Continue Reading