Staff Writers, Author at Backseat Mafia

Live Review: Sea Sessions Surf and Music Festival, Bundoran Beach, Bundoran 17.06.2020-19.06.2022

The picturesque seaside town of Bundoran, Donegal, is the homestead of long running surf and music festival, Sea Sessions. Every year, the festival sees up to 10,000 people make their…

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Live Review: Pond – Manchester Academy 2, Manchester 18.06.2022

By Olivia Kenny Manchester’s Academy 2 was flooded with energy on Saturday night when the Australian psych-rock band Pond took to the stage for the last night of their UK…

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Live Review: Heelapalooza Festival – Play Brew Co, Middlesbrough 18.06.2022

BY Adam and Hazel Littlemore What a fantastic festival this years Heelapalooza has been, with the amazing artists and bands that signed up to perform. The first band on was…

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Album Review: Lit – Tastes Like Gold

American band Lit have returned with their first album in five years. It marks a significant shift away from the country sound of 2017’s These Are the Days and harks…

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Live Review: Nine Inch Nails – O2 Academy, Glasgow 15.06.2022

Sold Out within minutes of tickets coming on line, they were not cheap, but how do you put a price on a show. How do we value our entertainment? Some…

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Live Review: Tim Burgess / Dean McMullen / Tom A Smith – Riverside, Newcastle 13.06.2022

By Hazel Littlemore It’s always good to see Tom Smith performing and see how much he has changed and how far he has came in his music career. As soon…

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Live Review: Slam Dunk Festival North – Temple Newsam, Leeds 03.06.2022

By Claire Hodgkins At a slightly later date than previous years, Slam Dunk Festival was back and made its return to the grounds of Temple Newsam. What was meant to…

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Album Review: Nova Twins – ‘Supernova’: punk-rap duo achieve dizzying new heights

Formed back in 2014 in London, childhood friends Amy Love (lead vocals, guitar) and Georgia South (backing vocals, bass) smashed together their love of 00’s R&B and hip-hop with punk,…

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Live Review: Drive By Truckers / Jerry Joseph, Vicar Street, Dublin 11.06.2022

As they say ‘Good things come to those who wait’ and fans of Drive By Truckers had to wait patiently for almost three years to get to see them perform…

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