Florence + The Machine Delight At Belsonic 2023

Florence + The Machine Delight At Belsonic 2023

Belsonic Festival, held annually in June, has year by year brought global superstars to its stage at Ormeau Park. This outdoor festival embraces the Northern Irish weather, taking place rain or shine! And with only one stage, you are guaranteed not to miss any of the...

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Ber Is More Than Halfway At The Lower Third

Ber Is More Than Halfway At The Lower Third

Berit Dybing, known to her growing fanbase on both sides of the Atlantic as Ber has been on the rise since the release of her debut song Bad For Me just two years ago now. In that time, she has been both writing and developing her live performance in addition to...

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Bad Nerves Warm Up Koko … And Then Some

Bad Nerves Warm Up Koko … And Then Some

While audiences are generally receptive to opening acts, the main act is why they handed over their cash, why they queued up in the rain for hours to get a spot at the front. And so when an opening act has the crowd bouncing so wildly, throwing around £7 pints of beer...

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The Return Of Live Music Events In 2022

The Return Of Live Music Events In 2022

The live music industry, like so many others, took a battering across 2020 and 2021 when the COVID-19 pandemic made it at first impossible and then unreliable to put on events. Festivals such as Glastonbury and BST Hyde Park, among others, pulled their events...

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Wilko Johnson: Photographs and Memories

Wilko Johnson: Photographs and Memories

I’ve written before in these pages about how it came to be that the iconic Dr Feelgood guitarist, Wilko Johnson sparked a second career for me in music photography. In essence, it was his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis in late 2012 and the (apparent) sure...

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2000 Trees Returns With A Bang

2000 Trees Returns With A Bang

Sunburn, hay fever, and a damaged hard drive with two days of photos lost. On the bright side, 2000 Trees is back in all its glory! For the first time since 2019 the ever faithful Trees crowd descend on the Cotswolds for four days of blistering heat and an even hotter...

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Thursday At Glastonbury Festival 2022 In Photos

Thursday At Glastonbury Festival 2022 In Photos

While the music might kick off in earnest at Glastonbury Festival from Friday, when the main stages finally opening up shop, with revellers arriving at Worthy Farm from Tuesday night and through the gates at 8am on Wednesday morning, there is plenty to see and do...

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Rews Offer A Glimmer Of Light In The Darkness

Rews Offer A Glimmer Of Light In The Darkness

An interesting night with two bands I had never seen before. The Darkness on the last of eighteen UK shows on their Easter Is Cancelled Tour before continuing the tour in Europe next year. First up, a band I have been eager to see for some time, Rews. Songwriter and...

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Hats Off To The Tolerable Gentleman

Hats Off To The Tolerable Gentleman

The Fiddlers Elbow has become a regular haunt for Progressive-Rock outfit Hats Off Gentleman It's Adequate. Malcolm Galloway and fellow collaborator Mark Gatland, who both write and record all their material, possess a chemistry that has been honed through years of...

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Militarie Gun (Nolan Knight)

Militarie Gun Announce New Album ‘God Save The Gun’ With Lead Single ‘B A D I D E A’

Militarie Gun are back with their highly anticipated sophomore album God Save The Gun, set for release on 17th October. Alongside the announcement, the band has unveiled the lead single B A D I D E A, which made its debut on Apple Music’s New Music Daily Radio with Zane Lowe, featuring an on-air interview with frontman Ian Shelton.

Hawksley Workman (Ivan Otis)

Hawksley Workman Announces Intimate UK Tour This Autumn With Multiple London Shows

Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Hawksley Workman is set to grace UK stages this September and October with a series of intimate live shows. Known for his eclectic blend of indie rock, folk, and alt-pop wrapped in a theatrical, cabaret-tinged style, Workman will play a number of beloved venues across the country — including four dates at London’s famed Green Note venue in Camden Town.

Taylor Swift @ Wembley Stadium (Kalpesh Patel)

Taylor Swift Ushers In A Glittering New Era With ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’

Pop megastar Taylor Swift has officially lifted the curtain on her 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl,...
Courtney Hadwin (Press)

Courtney Hadwin Unleashes Defiant New Single ‘All The Love (Money Can Buy)’ Ahead Of Debut Album

British powerhouse Courtney Hadwin has dropped her boldest track yet with All The Love (Money Can Buy), a blistering kiss-off bursting with swagger, sass, and that unmistakable, soul-soaked voice. The release sets the stage for her hotly anticipated debut album Little Miss Jagged, landing September 12th, and a trio of intimate headline shows in London, Birmingham, and Manchester next month.

Bailey Zimmerman (Masonn1k)

Bailey Zimmerman Drops Blockbuster Sophomore Album ‘Different Night Same Rodeo’

Multi-platinum country sensation Bailey Zimmerman has released his hotly anticipated second album Different Night Same Rodeo. The 18-track set sees the Illinois native opening up more than ever, pairing his trademark, rock-powered country anthems with sharper songcraft and a broader emotional range.

Twinnie (Press)

Twinnie Saddles Up With New Single ‘Giddy Up’

Fresh from the viral success of her breakout hit Back To Jack, international country-pop powerhouse Twinnie is back...
Latitude Festival 2025 (Kalpesh Patel)

Latitude Festival 2025: A Family Festival Full Of Discovery, Delight And Just A Bit of Madness

Now we "do Glastonbury" most years, but having missed out on a ticket this year we decided to try something new, so...
Oasis @ Wembley Stadium (Kalpesh Patel)

Oasis Shake Wembley Stadium With Manc Swagger And Singalong Spirit

They may be sons of Manchester, but Oasis have long since outgrown their hometown. On their fourth of five August dates at Wembley Stadium — and the 11th show of their reunion tour — the Gallagher brothers brought 90,000 fans to their feet for a night that felt less like a concert and more like a communion.

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