Wilko Johnson + Glenn Tilbrook Warrington Parr Hall Friday 1st March 2019 Mention Wilko Johnson to any music lover who’s seen him live and they will tell you to go and see him. I’ve never seen him before, so I was excited about tonight’s show, and now if anybody mentions him I’ll also tell them […]
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A lot of people watched The Brits Awards last week and came to the conclusion that music is dead, over, all the good stuff in the past. But tonight proved, if any proof were needed, that nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, the top 40 is finished as a creative force of any […]
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THE UNDERTONES and special guest THE NEVILLE STAPLE BAND Celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Undertones debut album & 40 years of ‘Two Tone’ announce Spring 2019 – UK Tour! Formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1975, The Undertones became renowned for combining lyrical invention and musical flair with intelligent simplicity. Their anthemic Teenage Kicks, […]
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I must admit I’ve been living under a stone as far as Sting & Shaggy getting together is concerned. In the old days of 4 tv channels, the top 40 and buying a daily paper, there wasn’t much culturally that went on that I wasn’t aware of. But today things are more fragmented, I have […]
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Every so often an artist comes along who grabs your attention and won’t let go. I hadn’t heard of Laura Gibson previously, but having listened to her sublime Indie Folk on current album “Goners” and watched some of her videos, I’m hooked and catching her live is a no-brainer. Laura Gibson has recently premiered her new […]
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Rudimental, Two Door Cinema Club, Doves and loads more aboard for Victorious 2019 Special Bloc Party Silent Alarm Set Final headliner still to be announced Victorious Festival (23-25 August ’19) – the UK’s biggest metropolitan festival – has today announced a second wave of incredible artists including: Two Door Cinema Club, Rudimental, Doves, Bloc Party […]
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Back in 2012, we caught Canadian artist Dan Mangan at the much missed “Summer Sundae Weekender” in Leicester. We knew nothing about him, but were really impressed by his set, and as chance would have it, it turned out he was staying at the same hotel as us, and we ended up having a nice […]
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Securing his name in the R&B history books, Alexander O’Neal is one of the genres most iconic names. With chart smash ‘Criticize’ lighting up dance floors across the world thirty years after its release, his sound has transcended generations. Working with Prince back in the early days as part of ‘The Time’ his journey in and out of […]
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I’ve got to admit, of all the press releases that hit the mailbox, a year ago one about Bros would have probably gone straight in the virtual bin – after all, I was way too cool to like Bros 😉 But the surprise Christmas tv hit “After the Screaming Stops” has renewed interest in the […]
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Mezzanine XX1 will be a totally new audio / visual production featuring Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and designed by Robert Del Naja with collaborators to be announced at a later date The show will re-imagine Mezzanine twenty one years on from its release using custom audio reconstructed from the original samples and influences Robert Del Naja says: […]
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