Live Review: Teenage Dads – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds – 27.05.24
Australian indie up-and-comers Teenage Dads brought their tour to Leeds last week, and gave a performance that stamps their mark on the scene and promised big things for the future. The band are mid-tour as they arrive in Leeds, having played in the US, around the UK before heading off into Europe before a well …
Live Review: HighSchool – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 16.05.24
Following the release of the latest EP, Accelerator, which we gave a resounding 9 out of 10 at Backseat Mafia, HighSchool hit the road on their European tour and we caught the show in Leeds. The Australian indie band bounced up the 3 steps on to the stage in Brudenell’s Community Room, but to a …
Track / Video: Lodestar bring the Hammer down with Cushing-inspired video
Experimental rock outfit Lodestar have released their latest offering – Bring Me The Head, taken from their upcoming long player Zonen, which is out tomorrow. It’s a moody, vengeful track that represents “the delusion that someone else is responsible for your woes. If only you could exact vengeance. Bring me the head of John the Baptist, …
Track: The Garrys return with their latest track
The Garrys return for the first time since their 2021 album Get Thee to a Nunnery, dropping their track Cakewalk, on May 3rd. The Garrys are very much a family affair, with Canadian sisters Lenore, Julia and Erica Maier starting out jamming in their parents house, before putting down their first album – Warm Buds …
Live Review: Dea Matrona – The Wardrobe, Leeds, 04.05.24
Formed in 2018, following time busking on the streets of Belfast, Dea Matrona have clearly spent time honing their craft as a live act. There’s a good crowd in the Wardrobe in Leeds, and interestingly, with a far higher average age than I was expecting. Many have come down early to see the excellent Fiona-Lee. …
Live Review: Newton Faulkner – The Old Woollen, Farsley – 30.04.24
Newton Faulkner is a bundle of energy as takes the stage, 15 minutes later than planned, as the sold out crowd took longer to get into the Old Woollen in Farsley. He is the kind of performer that looks like he is always on the verge of a smile, or breaking into infectious laughter. It’s admirable, …
Live Review: Olivia Dean – Leeds Stylus, 26.04.24
Sat at the piano, mid show, Olivia Dean tells us that she’s anxious being on stage in front of the 1000 or so, sold out crowd at Leeds University. Her performance though, belies those nerves as she delivered a cool and polished show. Stepping up to venues of this size would understandably generate a few …
Meet: Lovely Egg Holly Ross talks albums, Music Co-ops and scratchcards
It’s mid-afternoon as I call Holly Ross, charismatic singer and songwriter for The Lovely Eggs. The phone rings out for a while, and just as I’m about to hang up, a slightly breathless Holly picks up. “Oh, we’ve just had 1,000 record mailers turn up at our house,” she explains in her dulcet Lancastrian tone, …
Meet: Newton Faulkner tells us why he’s bringing his dustbin lid on tour
We caught up with Newton Faulkner, just as he’s about to head out on the road for the stripped back, Feels Like Home Tour 2. There are a couple of false starts as the signal is bad and the call drops out, but with better wifi and WhatsApp to the rescue, we finally got to …
Live Review: Starsailor – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 08.04.24
I’ll be honest, it’s been a long time since I’d thought about Starsailor. They’d briefly punctuated the beginning of my working life in the early 2000s, but then had faded into the background. Not so for the completely packed out Brudenell crowd, bursting at the seams with 400 devoted fans. The band had continued to …