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Live Review: Super Furry Animals – The Leadmill – 26 April 2016

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Live Review: Cud – Sheffield, The Plug – 18.10.2015

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By Henry Groves Although there are 2 months until the release of their 4th studio album ‘Frog in Boiling Water’, the shoegaze icons were back in the UK, showing off their new music. Returning to the Forum in Kentish Town, 3 years after their last show at the same venue, celebrating the release of their …

As a Brighton based band, I’ve seen Lime Garden grow from a small local support to small venue headline shows and now to their spectacular hometown headline at Chalk! In support of their debut album, the four piece have been travelling around the country, with their UK tour concluding in their hometown for a massive …

It’s St David’s Day and Sam Willmett, Tilly Harris and Dan Matthew have escaped over the border and made it to the Village Underground. Following the release of their latest album Rare Birds: Hour Of Song, the Caldicot band bring their distinctive brand of garage rock and ornithological oddness to Shoreditch.  There are more daft …

Midweek in Leeds and it was time to get excited and go get ourselves a healthy dose of rock courtesy of Editors and the accompanying openers, Indie rockers Coach Party. As the house lights dimmed there was a healthy gathered ensemble in the crowd ready for Coach Party, and they were not about to be …

“One, two, three, four, five!” The Go! Team do like to count. The maths that matters most tonight though is the twenty years that have passed since the release of their debut album – Thunder, Lightning, Strike. So it’s pom poms at the ready because The Go! Team are back! Celebrating the anniversary of their …

By Francis Fitzgerald The Stockton Calling festival in 2022 featured a new band by the name of English Teacher. Fast forward a couple of years to January 2024 and the band has had a single (Nearly Daffodils) listed in the top 10 of Time magazine, featured on BBC Later with Jools Holland and much more …

By Francis Fitzgerald A wet Winter night in Stockton, and it is the opening night of the Libertines Albionay tour of ‘small sweaty clubs’. The band are touring their hotly anticipated fourth album due in March ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade’. So how did that first night go? Answer, they went down a storm, …

A Night of Indie Pop Bliss with The Lottery Winners at The Network, Sheffield The Network in Sheffield was set ablaze with indie pop magic as The Lottery Winners took the stage to warm up a cold January Saturday night. Hailing from Leigh, Greater Manchester, this quartet, formed in 2008 proved once again why they …

By Henry Groves I had been lucky enough to see Opus Kink a few times in the past, but none of them lived up to the size of this show. From supporting Chappaqua Wrestling at Brighton’s Rialto Theatre to supporting Black Honey at Green Door Store in the same city. Now they were headlining Concorde …

‘They Just Put a Reit Smile On Your Face’. Red Rum Club took Sheffield by storm with a sold-out show at The Leadmill, delivering as expected a high-octane performance. The Liverpool-based band captivated the audience from the first note of the opening song, “Black Cat.” As the infectious energy of the opening song reverberated through …