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From Monday 10 November 2025

LIVE: Pendulum / Alt Blk Era @ O2 Academy Brixton

When the Pendulum lads want to celebrate, they head to Brixton. South London has embraced the Aussies – it’s where they recorded their live album, after all – and ‘Inertia’ is blaring from every graffitied corner on the walk from the Tube. More than that, tonight feels like the

Wednesday 05 November 2025

LIVE: Common Threads Tour, London

Five cities, one week, twenty three bands and six stages: Common Thread Tour is a masterpiece of logistics as well as hardcore. For one day, the whole of Camden Town has been taken over by music as glorious as it is brutal, and we’re here to catch as much

Monday 03 November 2025

LIVE: Mouth Culture / Beauty School @ The Garage, London

The Garage is rarely as civilised as it is before Mouth Culture come onstage. Sure, there seems to be a lot of crossover between the Ghost fandom and enjoyers of spiky alt sounds from Leicester, but this is a refined crowd that have sold out the venue tonight. There’s

Tuesday 28 October 2025

LIVE: Architects / Wage War / House Of Protection @ The O2 Arena, London

There’s something visceral about watching Sam Carter lose his mind on stage while 20,000 people try to keep pace with his brutal vocal delivery. Sunday night at The O2 Arena is a masterclass in controlled chaos, with Brighton’s Architects proving exactly why they’re still leading the pack a decade-and-a-half

Monday 27 October 2025

LIVE: Nova Twins @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

It just feels right to watch Nova Twins in London; it’s the hometown show, the last date of the tour, and our first chance to see their new record live. It’s also a chance for any fence-sitters to fully embrace the magnificent contrasts and contradictions which bloom like origami

Friday 17 October 2025

LIVE: Refused @ O2 Academy Brixton

Refused, as they so eloquently put it, are fucking dead.  Tonight might be their final UK show of their farewell tour, but this no solemn evening. Rather, this is a celebration of musical lives lived without compromise, a punk gig in a huge former theatre that feels like

Wednesday 15 October 2025

LIVE: Blood Incantation @ Albert Hall Manchester

Blood Incantation take to a stage that is bookended by large obelisks. These frame a neat arrangement of beefy amplifiers, synthesisers and, amongst other assortments, a gong. Behind them are the Albert Hall’s non-operational organ pipes. They remain from when the venue was once a Wesleyan chapel, adding to

LIVE: Parkway Drive @ OVO Wembley Arena

The last time we saw Parkway Drive in the UK, they were squashed into a corner of Download 2024 as the secret band that sparked a stampede up the slippery hill. Eighteen months later and they’re back in their natural habitat, filling the vastness that is Wembley Arena. While

Friday 10 October 2025

Live: Murder By Death @ Islington Assembly Hall

It’s a bittersweet night at Islington Assembly Hall. After all, it’s always a joyous occasion to see your favourite band play live, right?  Unfortunately, everyone in the room knows that, unless they plan to travel to the US to catch any other shows on this tour, it’s going

Thursday 25 September 2025

LIVE: TURNOVER @ THE ROUNDHOUSE

Anyone who wasn’t a teenager when ‘Peripheral Vision’ dropped in 2015 probably wouldn’t get what all the fuss is about. But for those who spent countless hours lying on bedroom floors letting Austin Getz’s dreamy vocals wash over them like some kind of musical hypnotherapy, Saturday night at the