Fontaines D.C. + Warm DragStylus, Leeds University Union, Lifton Pl, Leeds LS2 9JT Friday 22nd November 2019 It’s not so long since Fontaines D.C. played at the Brudenell in Leeds. A small(ish), intimate venue in which it’d have been a real ‘I was there’ night. Unfortunately we couldn’t make it to that one. Tonight’s gig […]
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Today at Urbanista we caught up with musical artist Wilroy, a local Liverpool based talent originating from Canada to talk about his new remix’s on Stephen Emmers “Home Ground”, coming out 22nd November. E: Hey Wilroy, great to catch up- let’s start by me asking where your name came about since I know that’s not […]
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The Urbanista Writer’s Ledger (TUWL) is back to see out the end of 2019 with another fantastic collection of original writing. To kick start the new series we have a couple of poems from the enfants terribles of Liverpool’s literary scene, Casserole of Nonsense – the brainchild of Jack Turner and Lewy Dohren. Today we […]
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With the new greatest hits album Black Gold out now! Sarah Anderson sat down with Editors drummer Ed Lay to talk about their career, the album and the future. S: Hi Ed, How are you doing? Ed: I’m alright, you know cold, that time of year, all my kids are suffering with colds so just […]
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Pick Me Up The new single from Liverpool 7 piece Psycho Comedy kicks and rears up from the get go, galloping away towards heady echo’s of Arcade Fire evoking americana. Driving relentlessly through barnshaking pockets of 2004 amid undertones of post punk waterboys, what could be deemed repetitive ends up a strangely satisfying mini banger. […]
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A performance as magical as an actual night under the stars. I felt like I was every where that the characters were transporting us to in the story. Especially in the first sequence when they first interact in a camping trip. I actually felt like I was under the stars with them. There was something […]
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As some of the crowd started to trickle out of the Concorde 2 early, Bradford Cox called after them.“Hey you guys leaving, thanks for coming but you are about to miss the most bombastic 30 minutes of tunes weve ever played” before conferring with the band and correcting himself. “Err ok sorry actually theres about […]
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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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