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From Friday 24 February 2023

LIVE: You Me At Six / Waterparks / The Maine @ Alexandra Palace, London

There are few occasions more special than experiencing a band playing live the weekend of an album release and with ‘Truth Decay’ fresh in our ears, You Me At Six fans have turned up en masse ready to scream the words into the rafters of the vast

Tuesday 03 January 2023

LIVE: Boston Manor @ The Forum, Tunbridge Wells

It’s always a little bit special when a band travels beyond the usual major cities, venturing to smaller venues in smaller towns; the anticipation always feels that much more tangible when local fans can avoid long train rides and be tucked up in bed by 11pm after proving what

Friday 04 November 2022

LIVE: Alexisonfire / Boston Manor / Higher Power @ O2 Academy Brixton

After releasing their first studio album in over a decade, it’s fair to say this is the most excited fans have been to see Alexisonfire in a long time. Armed with an album’s worth of new music, as well as old favourites, tonight’s Brixton headliner is a

Wednesday 26 October 2022

LIVE: Sum 41 / Simple Plan @ Alexandra Palace, London

If you were remotely interested in pop culture in the early 2000s, the chances are you heard Simple Plan and Sum 41. From the former’s appearance on Mary Kate and Ashley’s New York Minute, to the latter’s place on side two of the Now CD upon the

Tuesday 25 October 2022

The Hunna – ‘The Hunna’

The Hunna have made no secret of the fact they’ve had their issues both in and with the music industry throughout their years as a band, but no album encapsulates that quite as well, and as directly as this self-titled release.  Taking us on a journey

Tuesday 18 October 2022

Boston Manor – ‘Datura’

Boston Manor’s last full-length record was released during a time that is universally agreed to be “the worst time ever” to have been making music. In May 2020, ‘GLUE’ finally reached our ears but the proceeding tour didn’t take place until almost two years later, a wait

Thursday 07 July 2022

LIVE: Highly Suspect @ Electric Ballroom, London

It’s 8pm on a Friday and Brooklyn made Highly Suspect are already kicking off the evening’s events, the track playing them onto the stage at Camden’s Electric Ballroom causing our hearts to thump even harder than the adrenaline and anticipation already has.  The sparse crowd suggests

Tuesday 05 July 2022

LIVE: twenty one pilots @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London

It’s fair to say that before 2020, London had gotten a little complacent when it came to having twenty one pilots in town. Their one-off Complete Diversion show back in September 2018 gave us the world’s first glance into what the pair had in store as it

Tuesday 21 June 2022

LIVE: Slam Dunk Festival 2022 @ Hatfield Park, Hatfield

The sun is finally promising to shine through ominous clouds, music lovers have dusted off their Doc Martens, flannel shirts and checkered Vans and festival season is back, baby – for real this time. A week later than usual thanks to the Queen’s jubilee, alternative kids congregate

Monday 20 June 2022

LIVE: You Me At Six / The Hunna / Holding Absence / Kid Kapichi / Yours Truly @ Hatfield Park, Hatfield

For anyone who has ever loved You Me At Six, today feels like a long time coming. Infamously their most-revered album, ‘Sinners Never Sleep’ turned 10 last year and it only felt right that the band celebrate this career-turning album in style: playing it back to back