Wirral’s Skeleton Coast festival has got better and better year in, year out. After last year’s hugely memorable and jubilant homecoming from Wirral legends The Coral at Leasowe Castle. The question 2019’s edition had to answer and the challenge for organisers was – how do you follow that? The answer and 2019 headliner – fellow […]
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Having live music on Wirral is important and over the last few years Skeleton Coast festival has proved to be a major part of that. This year the lineup is bigger than ever headlined by a homecoming for ‘The Wirral Riddler’ Miles Kane alongside a lineup stacked from top to bottom with the finest exciting […]
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Life At The Arcade are fast developing a reputation for churning out festival-ready bangers and Antidote might just be the best yet – scintillating . 9/10 Liverpool music is having a great year and bands like Life At The Arcade are a huge part of that. Churning out bangers left, right and centre, touring the […]
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Glasgow’s TRNSMT festival received a fresh backlash yesterday over an ill-judged decision to announce a late addition to their virtually female free lineup in the form of a female-only ‘queens stage’ – something that has not gone down well and neither should it. Back in February Glasgow’s TRNSMT music festival received a barrage of negative […]
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BoatPip BlomRelease date: 31 May 2019Label: Heavenly Recordings A captivating debut to adore from Dutch indie dreamers to believe in. 9/10 Pip Blom’s songs have always had that endlessly listenable vibe – right from day one. Every EP, every single as raw as the one before. That’s them, it works, it’s great. So as their […]
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Reasons To Dream Whenyoung Release date: 24 May 2019 Label: Virgin EMI Reasons To Dream is a magnificent debut that gives you endless reasons to do just what it says on the cover – dream. 9/10 Ever since I first set eyes and ears on Whenyoung they’ve been a band to believe in. Their songs […]
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Liverpool Sound City took over the city again for two days of new music discovery May 4-5. It’s the festival’s second year in the venues and spaces of Liverpool’s fantastic Baltic Triangle – a great place for the festival to call home with over a dozen venues within five minutes of eachother. Before we get […]
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Liverpool Sound City always excel when it comes to showcasing emerging music and this year a new star emerges from across the pond – L.A singer-songwriter Pearl Charles. Hitting the UK for the first time, on a limited run of intimate dates in support of her wonderful debut album Sleepless Dreamer, 27 year-old Charles plays […]
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The UK’s leading festival for new and emerging music – Liverpool Sound City – returns May 4th – May 5th, again taking over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. Across a host of venues, emerging music from all corners will be explored. Here’s a few artists I suggest you check out across the weekend, plus where and when […]
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Everything has its place and truly belongs on what is a really exciting and enjoyable debut. 8.5/10 Sometimes a track or artist just really grabs you. Whether it be what they’re doing, or what they’re trying to do. It’s all about that connection. If you can paint a pretty picture with the paint and canvas […]
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