It’s been 41 years since the London based band released their debut record “Damned, Damned, Damned” and with 2018’s “Evil Spirts”, their highest charting record in decades, The Damned are back and ready to raise the dead. While other peers of punk fell to their own success or faded into obscurity, The Damned, under the […]
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The Jacaranda Club celebrated its 60th Birthday in style over the weekend, standing tall on the cobbled streets of Slater Street behind its famous bold blue lettering. ‘The Jac’ was opened by Alan Williams in 1958 as a coffee bar and today covers three floors catering for all as the music venue, social hub and […]
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I was going to start this piece with the headline I COULD SMILE ABOUT IT NOW, BUT AT THE TIME IT WAS TERRIBLE taken from The Smiths’ Shakespeare Sister. It has been said many times that Morrissey is an enigma. Over the past few years he has left me rather confused and with feelings of […]
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WOMAD festival, UK edition, hosted in the quiescent Charlton Park Estate, Wiltshire, happens annually on the final weekend of July and has been functioning as a cultural celebratory carnival for the past 35 years. With the festival scene in Britain becoming somewhat saturated over the last five, many are not able to bear the enlarging […]
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Urbanista’s Tapes Off The Track is a series of live recordings of local music talent, filmed in some of Merseyside’s most idyllic settings, with the aim of capturing the magic of our chosen artists in their purest, most stripped back form. Here is a session from the awesome Gareth Heesom. Gareth is a heartfelt singer/songwriter […]
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Our album of the month comes straight off the banks of the Mersey, in the form of The Vryll Society debut, Course Of The Satellite. It’s been long in the making from the Deltasonic signed scousers, and their patience has paid off. Released 10th August 2018, Course Of The Satellite is like hyper-galactic travel through […]
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Urbanista’s Tapes Off The Track is a series of live recordings of local music talent, filmed in some of Merseyside’s most idyllic settings, with the aim of capturing the magic of our chosen artists in their purest, most stripped back form. Here is a session from the KingFast. KingFast is a singer/Songwriter whose soulful vocals […]
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This gig was originally scheduled for the 18th of March .Nine days after release of the new album “We the Collective” . On the 24th Feb , Charlie Heathers’ teenage son was tragically killed in a accident in Brighton. The rest of the tour was rescheduled so at this point I would like to pay […]
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2018 has seen the UK festival scene seemingly crumble away in dramatic fashion, as many of the biggest festivals suffered huge setbacks. T in the Park had to be cancelled indefinitely as they struggled to compete with other festivals and had issues over the festival’s location. Similarly, V festival announced that it would not take […]
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Urbanistas! It’s that time again, WOMAD is almost upon us but your usual correspondent cannot make this years event. Instead I’ve sent my good friends Holly and Vaughan to cover my favourite festival! I met Vaughan at my first WOMAD three years ago and have enjoyed three incredible years at this wonderful musical gathering! I’ll […]
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