LIVE: Slam Dunk South 2025

Slam Dunk South; traditional kick off to the UK festival season, it delivers the elusive festival highs and global lineup that sets the bar for the rest of the summer. A political undercurrent cuts through the day, like the rain clouds which threatened and never burst into controversy, but

Slam Dunk Festival 2025

The Used, The Home Team, Honey Revenge @ The Marble Factory, Bristol

LIVE: The Used / The Home Team / Honey Revenge @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

Outside the Forum, teenagers in face paint huddle together like baby penguins, hoods and occasionally plastic bags on their heads to protect their neon hair from the stinging winter rain. While The Used are ambivalent about being labelled an emo band (they’ve insisted on interviews that they’re just “a

The Used – ‘Toxic Positivity’

According to the WHO (The World Health Organisation, not the band), the global prevalence of depression and anxiety rose by 25% in the first year of the pandemic. Amongst those affected was Bert McCracken, vocalist and songwriter for The Used. In 2022, the band cancelled their Slam Dunk appearances

The Used – ‘Heartwork’

If you were a fan of post-hardcore and emo back in its heyday and The Used weren’t included in your regular rotation of bands, you were doing it wrong. A vital component in the genre’s popularity surge and one of the early breakthrough acts of the movement,

The Used @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire

LIVE: Reading Festival 2018 – Friday

Reading Festival continues to be one of the most popular festivals to brighten up our British summer each year, even when summer fails to truly arrive and we are left wading through mud in our favourite wellies. Every year offers a lineup filled with the biggest current names in

Reading Festival 2018 – Friday

The Used announce UK shows

The Used have announced that they will be playing some UK shows early next year as part of a wider European tour. The dates will be in support of their seventh album ‘The Canyon’, which was released last month via Hopeless Records. FEBRUARY 2018 11 NOTTINGHAM Rock City 12 MANCHESTER O2 Ritz 15 BRISTOL