Cotton Clouds Festival – Review

Cotton Clouds Festival – Review

Cotton Clouds Festival 2019Saddleworth Cricket Club, Well-I-Hole Rd, Greenfield, Oldham OL5 9BN Cotton Clouds is now 3 years old. Set deep in the countryside east of Oldham, 11 miles north east of Manchester yet historically part of the West Riding Of Yorkshire, surrounded by rolling hills and small rural towns Saddleworth Cricket club is where […]

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 Cotton Clouds Festival (Lancashire) – Preview

Cotton Clouds Festival (Lancashire) – Preview

COTTON CLOUDS FESTIVAL 2019@ SADDLEWORTH CRICKET CLUB, LANCASHIRE – 16-17th AUGUST 2019 If you like small but perfectly formed festivals with quality lineups and lots of imagination, Cotton Clouds should definitely be on your radar. Steve White will be there with his camera to get photos of the bands and give us his thoughts, meanwhile […]

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 Joan as policewoman – Epstein Theatre – Review

Joan as policewoman – Epstein Theatre – Review

In a gold sequin dress in a beautiful building – a simple set up in a grand yet cozy auditorium – a solo performance too and Froing from piano and guitar on stage – the audience hushed from the start, the grand setting ‘the Epstein theatre’ In between the soft brow beaten ballads Joan wasser […]

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 The South – Coming to Chester’s Live Rooms this July

The South – Coming to Chester’s Live Rooms this July

To celebrate their 10th year anniversary and 30 years since The Beautiful South released ‘Song For Whoever’, The South are back this Summer, with a 2019 UK Tour playing shows up and down the whole of the UK.   The South are an impressive 9 piece band who feature former members of The Beautiful South including […]

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 Long Division Festival 2019 – Review

Long Division Festival 2019 – Review

Saturday June 1st and I head to Wakefield on what is supposedly going to be the hottest day of the year so far for Long Division 2019. As a festival Long Division began in 2011 and, with the exception of 2017, has been an annual event ever since. Over the years it has played host […]

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 The Yalla Yallas new album “Outsider” – Review

The Yalla Yallas new album “Outsider” – Review

Rob Galloway and band, The Yalla Yallas have a bit of a reputation on the West Yorkshire music scene, a reputation that is, quite rightly, spreading. They recently blew the Brudenell Social Club apart with an incendiary performance supporting Penetration. The gig featured a number of previously unreleased songs giving a taster of what was […]

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 Klammer release cover of Human League’s “Being Boiled”

Klammer release cover of Human League’s “Being Boiled”

It’s 41 years since The Human League released ‘Being Boiled’, a haunting, minimal, dark synth song years ahead of it’s time and to this day it’s still their best single release. Now Klammer have dragged ‘Being Boiled’ kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, replacing synths and drum machine with slashing guitars, throbbing bass riffs […]

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