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Public Image Ltd // O2 Ritz Manchester 6/6/2022
The 15-year-old me would never have believed that I’d be standing in the photo pit at O2 Ritz 45 years later, waiting for the scrawny, snarling youth I’d just seen perform as the lead singer of The Sex Pistols, amble on stage in his mid-60s, both of us still going!! But here we both are. …
Meet: Punk Rock Factory at Slam Dunk Festival North
BM: My name is Erin. I’m from Backseat Mafia. Could you just introduce yourself and then what you do in the band? PRF: I’m Peej. I’m the singer and rhythm guitarist and I’m Kob and I play drums. BM: Lovely. I just watched your set, we don’t talk about technical difficulties because by the end …
Track: Atom Eyes release new single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’
Atom Eyes release gorgeous new single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’
TRACK: YINYANG – Happy Money
YINYANG is the moniker of Irish artist Lauren Hannan who has released her latest single ‘Happy Money‘. YINYANG evolved during lockdown in 2020 when Lauren taught herself how to produce music and cultivated her writing by working on it every day. Technology was a blessing during this enforced period of isolation and Lauren looked to …
Video: The Fontaines DC want to take you on a ‘Roman Holiday’
The Fontaines DC want to take you on a ‘Roman Holiday’
Track: Mal de Mer share the infectiously buoyant pop of new single ‘Mirage’: EP ‘Sanguine’ coming in July
Teeming with funk and frivolity, Perth collective Mal de Mer present bodacious, brand new single Mirage (as well as the darkly comical accompanying video) which marks the final, alluring glimpse into the group’s forthcoming EP Sanguine, officially set to drop on 8 July. A slinky, funked-up shoe-tapping track, ‘Mirage’ continues Mal de Mer’s genre-defying journey …
News: Beddy Rays announce debut self-titled album and tour.
I’ve been waiting to write about this moment for a while. I genuinely have. I even DM’d Beddy Rays on Instagram after the release of ‘Sort It Out’ asking “When’s the album?” to which one of the members replied “Album? Never heard of him.” I can now confirm they were being silly as the Queensland-based …
See: Melbourne-based NZ band Bakers Eddy unveil video for ‘Drinking Mood’ and outline tour.
Ahead of Melbourne-based punks Bakers Eddy’s mammoth national album tour, the band have done the lavish pleasure of sharing their chaotic video for ‘Drinking Mood’! Lasting a brief but noteworthy one minute and thirty-seven seconds, the accompanying video for ‘Drinking Mood’ gives fans a look into the bands touring life. Shot across their tour with …
News: The mesmerising flowerkid announces Australian tour.
Australia’s mesmerising flowerkid is set to fascinate and enthral audiences in Melbourne and Sydney this month, presented by Secret Sounds, Wonderlick and Select Music. We are huge fans of flowerkid – see our review of his EP ‘Everyone Has A Breaking Point’. Having taken off with the 2021 EP ‘everyone has a breaking point’ and …
Live Review: The Flaming Lips / Heartless Bastards – 02 Kentish Town Forum, London 02.06.22
With the never ending enthusiasm to create fresh and weird new sounds Wayne Coyne finally made it to play at the Kentish Town Forum complete with Giant Robots, blow-up rainbows and mechanical birds! The Flaming Lips are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City. The band have recorded several albums and …