I’m used to seeing Rob Galloway fronting The Yalla Yallas. A band that delivers an incendiary live performance with Galloway spending half the set leaping around delivering his passionate, furious vocals from somewhere in the crowd. Tonight he’s solo, playing an acoustic set, tied to his guitar, standing behind a mike stand playing songs I’ve […]
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It’s 1999. Cool Britannia isn’t so cool anymore, lukewarm at best. The UK is fast running out of white male indie guitar bands to feed the Britpop machine. Creation Records, Alan McGee’s label notorious for the movement’s worst ridiculousness along with the best bits is months away from its own big sleep. And we won’t […]
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Manchester’s notorious mythmakers WU LYF burned fiercely, briefly at the beginning of this decade. They played kiss-chase games with the press before coming to an abrupt end after just one album. Bound to happen really, no one can be too cool for school for long. More positively, in the wake of the split it emerged […]
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“Country Music isn’t all Cowboy boots and Line Dancing and Acoustic music isn’t all loop pedals and rap covers.” Mike West proclaims. “We’re here to remind everyone that dark and meaningful music is here and acoustic songwriters deserve more than open mics and to play the same old cover songs.” West founded Rogue Country UK […]
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Damo Jones’ debut thriller, A Singularity, is set in the near future as the ramifications of climate change take hold. The novel’s two protagonists, Selene and Mark, embark on a fraught odyssey to make a stand against what they see as the planet’s decline and the lack of urgency to combat it. The young lovers […]
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The Academy is filling up nicely by 7.30pm. It’s good to see a decent turnout for tonight’s support – Kanga – whose reputation as a performer is growing quickly. Los Angeles based Kanga is an artist, composer and musician whose credits include work on films such as The Conjuring 2 and Insidious 3. One computer […]
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Here’s a massive hint. If you’re heading to a gig in Newcastle and United are at home and kicking off at 5.30pm don’t even try and get a parking space in town. The answer – get the Metro in from Gateshead. Quick, easy, cheap. The sold out Academy is filling quickly. Even at just after […]
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It’s all in the title- What a belter of a festival! Reminisce at Sherdley Park, St Helens was back with a bang and it did not disappoint. Upon arrival the idyllic scenery of the park itself was enough to get excited, mixing with festival go’ers on route to the centre of the baseline that could […]
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Seb Fontaine is a UK International DJ, whilst he isn’t spinning on the decks he is a homely family man who I had the pleasure of chatting to recently from everything music to random quick fire questions. So sit back, relax and enjoy the read! Seb, it’s so nice to talk to you, I have […]
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Boomtown or Bust If I had 3 words to describe Boomtown it would be Music, theatre and Magic. This was my second Boomtown, and me and my mate Sam, where wondering if Boomtown could get any better than last year. This year was Chapter 11: A radical city. And it truly is. Boomtown welcomes hundreds […]
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