Live Review: Last Train Home Festival – Darlington 02.09.2023

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Wet Leg are back. Back with new singles, a new album in July and a short headline tour in venues that aren’t the size of aircraft hangers supporting megastars. With Henry Holmes, Josh Mobaraki and Ellis Durand now fully signed up band members together with Rhian Teasdale and co-founder Hester Chambers Wet Leg deliver a …

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They say you can have too much of a good thing. But when it comes to one day music festivals in Teesside and surrounding areas I, for one, say you can’t. This Is Middlesbrough, Twisterella, Gathering Sounds, Last Train Home and others all bring well established acts to the area as well as provide a …

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A glorious night of singing, dancing, smiling, laughing and the pricking of people’s social conscience. Beans On Toast, aka Jay McAllister, has released an album every year for the last 16 years. Latest long player ‘Wild Goose Chasers’ is pared back – no guitar, just vocals and piano courtesy of Matt Millership (punky pianist Tensheds) …

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Massive credit to whoever decided to grab Adult DVD for tonight’s opening slot. The Leeds band are on a deservedly sharp upward projectory. Venues are getting bigger, festival appearances are further up the bill, 2024 ep ‘Next Day Shipping’ has sold out via online sources (thankfully copies available on the merch stand here for those …

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The Conjuring 2025 (Northern lights).Festival of dark psychedelia.Pealies Barn Northallerton.15-18th Aug 2025 Welcome to the alternative…The free spirited, free flowing, friendly and the flavoursome!Not to be forgotten…This is The Conjuring, a gathering of like minded folk in a unique setting that explores the alternative.The first edition of the conjuring festival (Northern Lights) ran smoothly, so …

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Truthpaste open procedings in a venue that, even just after doors opening, is literally buzzing with excitement about tonight’s headliners. Truthpaste bring an eclectic mix of guitar, saxophone, violin, computer generated drum beats and vocals. They’re folky, poppy, jazzy, arty and completely unique. It’s doubtful you’ll hear/see/experience another live act that sound even remotely like …

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The rising popularity of Amyl and The Sniffers continues unabated. It’s well deserved and this gig, in a venue that by now seems much too small for a band of their status, was always going to sell out soon after it was announced. Support comes from American five piece Upchuck and the NX has filled …

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Returning for it’s third year Forwards Festival continued it’s growing reputation for showcasing international, national and local bands. From huge names to those most won’t have heard of across a massively diverse range of musical genres. Set on the Bristol Downs, Forwards isn’t your typical summer festival. For a start it’s just two days instead …

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Back for it’s sixth year and in a new ‘venue’ Northern Kin 2024 certainly had some organisational issues to deal with prior to the weekend. Last year the weather caused chaos with the old site turning into a mudbath. This year the festival, on it’s new site at Thornley Hill Farm, was originally scheduled for …

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Stone Valley has been developing a reputation for being a great festival over the last few years, whether that’s the event in the South, the Midlands, or the North. Sadly, SV North has been cancelled this year due to the saturated ground, so I find myself at SV Midlands on the hottest weekend of the …

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