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Feature: UK & Ireland live review team’s Top 5 gigs of 2023

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Feature: UK & Ireland live review team’s Top 5 gigs of 2023

Andi Callen December 24, 2023

It’s been one hell of a year for live music and our UK & Ireland review team have covered the length and breadth of the British Isles, to bring you the very best coverage, befitting one of the UK’s Top 10 music websites. Did we mention we’d recently come 9th in the Top 100 UK …

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News: Now Wave announce new annual happening Bad Dreams @ New Century Hall, Manchester

Le Crowley April 9, 2024

Manchester’s long-standing independent promoters Now Wave have announced a new annual happening BAD DREAMS at New Century set to take place across the late May bank holiday weekend. Launching on Friday 24th May the opening day of Bad Dreams will see dreamy-neo-soul-psych outfit Crumb headline alongside the hazy surf-psych-rock sounds of Australia’s Babe Rainbow and Tonronto’s jangly-indie-pop duo Ducks LTD. Bank holiday Monday 27th May will …

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Track: ‘She Took You To Narnia’ – HighSchool unveil another chilled slice of gothic cool ahead of EP release and tour.

Arun Kendall April 9, 2024

The enigmatic HighSchool – London-based but originally from Melbourne – are about to release their EP ‘Accelerator’ next Friday, April 19 via [PIAS] Australia, and to further entice us have unveiled the single ‘She Took You To Narnia’. Antarctic chills pervade this gothic epistle, delivered on an electronic thrum and with the insouciance we have …

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Live Review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay – Day 2, Friday 29.03.2024

Andrew Fuller April 8, 2024

The Friday at Bluesfest is traditionally one of the bigger days as far as crowd attendance is concerned, with many 3-day ticket holders beginning their festival on this day. To kick off proceedings, who better than one of Australia’s finest party bands, 19-Twenty to launch into a set full of fun, frivolity and fervour with …

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Premiere: Restless Leg jangle their way through ‘Sow A Little Seed’: planting an effervescent pop delight in our heads as a new album is on its way through the new label Sinister Porpoise Records.

Arun Kendall April 8, 2024

We are absolutely honoured to premiere the new single ‘Sow A Little Seed’ from Sydney indie pop gurus Restless Leg. It’s been nearly three years since we heard from this band upon the release of their album ‘Dream Buffet’, and this is one of the bands that first lit a lightbulb for me about the …

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News: Five Weeks Until The Mighty Incineration Festival Brings Its 10 Year Anniversary Edition To Camden Town, London

Phil Pountney April 6, 2024

With just five weeks to go until the formidable Incineration Fest hits London again in its ritualistic annual pilgrimage of all thing’s Black and Death on the extreme metal soundscape it’s time to start getting excited, very very excited. In a little over a month we will be treated to four stages of madness spread …

Feature: UK & Ireland live review team’s Top 5 gigs of 2023

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