Live Review: Pip Blom / Mt Misery – Independent, Sunderland 29.04.2022
By Adam Littlemore Misery as they first open up the night with their amazing music spinning Lo-fi romantic songs in their live performance with their ambient atmosphere sounds. This was the third time Mt. Misery have played at the Independent, and they are one of my favourite bands. I missed their set when they performed …
Live Review: As Everything Unfolds / Delaire The Liar / Insurgent – The Flapper, Birmingham 24.04.2022
By Claire Hodgkins Insurgent Delaire The Liar As Everything Unfolds
Track: Children Of The Pope – Junkie Girlfriend
The latest addition to the Isolar Records rosters, Children of the Pope certainly know how to make a striking entrance, showing up with a new single which is a very strong calling card: immediately recognisable, eminently listenable, and brimming with promise. The band has been, for a while now, a well-known presence in the London …
Live Review: Lucy Dacus / SOAK – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin 25.04.2022
Lucy Dacus played an almost sold out Olympia Theatre on the 25th of April. The show had been upgraded twice and more recently reschedule due to COVID, so it was great that it could finally happen in such a beautiful room. Support on the night came from Derry based artist SOAK. SOAK was fantastic on …
Live Review: Stockton Calling Festival – Stockton 16.04.2022
By Ian Allcock Samantha Durnan at Ku First up for me, in my day of jogging around the venues in town for Stockton Calling on Saturday, was the Samantha Durnan Band, including Steph Hooton and Louise Radford at KU Stockton. A great set in an excellent venue Elizabeth Liddle at The Vault I settled down …
Live Review: Artists Against Homelessness – 3Olympia, Dublin 17.04.2022
Artists Against Homelessness has been organised for the last eight years by the Sunday Independent’s Barry Egan. This year’s show, which has been booked by Bekah Molony, reflects the diversity of modern Ireland. The lineup this year was curated by Dublin Rapper Kojaque. The night was a fantastic celebration of Focus Ireland’s work with a …
Live Review: CMAT / Soft Launch – Omeara, London 08.04.2022
The Irish country-pop singer Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, better known as CMAT, released her debut album, ‘If My Wife New I’d Be Dead’, earlier this year and is now on tour in support of the album. Rachel Wonders was there at her London gig to capture the colourful performance of support band Soft Launch and Thompson …
Live Review: Walt Disco / Priestgate / Voya – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, 13.04.22
The last time I saw Walt Disco live was at a festival at the very beginnings of their career. I had a hole in my timeline and picked their slot on the strength of what was objectively one of the best band names I’d ever heard, with no clue whatsoever of what I was in …
Live Review: The War On Drugs / Lo Moon – 3arena Dublin 14.04.2022
The War in Drugs brought their latest tour the ‘I don’t live here anymore’ to the 3arena this week. Lo Moon opened on the night with a series of pleasant soundscapes punctuated by fantastic guitar parts and great melodies. Lo Moon were an excellent support band for The War on Drugs as they matched the …
Meet: John Roy from ska/reggae supergroup Smoke and Mirrors Sound System
Smoke And Mirrors Sound System are an American ska, rocksteady and reggae supergroup put together during the pandemic by John Roy who had previously played in many other ska bands in California and also played with the English Beat for a while. He had no work in his day job supplying sound for concerts and …