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From Monday 08 February 2021

LIVE: Jimmy Eat World @ The Phoenix Sessions – ‘Futures’

We’re nearing an entire year of gigs being put on hold while the outside world undergoes the most intense round of fumigation it’s ever seen, and while it’s hard to grapple with the knowledge we’re still a while away from in-person events returning, it’s been fun watching

Tuesday 01 December 2020

LIVE: Architects @ Royal Albert Hall, London

As the need for streamed gigs continues, bands are upping their game and putting together increasingly more professional and impressive productions to share with their fans through a screen. Architects have done just that and the result will blow your mind to smithereens. Taking

Saturday 17 October 2020

LIVE: Boston Manor @ Blackpool Tower, Blackpool

For most of us, it’s been at least seven months since we last entered a music venue with the excitable anticipation of a child on Christmas morning. The idea of being crammed in a room full of sweaty strangers ever again has become something of a pipe dream. So

Tuesday 08 September 2020

LIVE: IDLES @ Abbey Road, London

Look, we’re still in a weird place. Although we’re starting to see live shows back, they’re rightly keeping fans distant from each other. For most of us, the idea of socially distanced gigs, whilst being the correct course of action, would be difficult to tolerate. Without being able to

Thursday 03 September 2020

LIVE: Jamie Lenman @ Signature Brew Brewery, London

‘This is weird isn’t it?’ says Jamie Lenman moments after taking the stage, ‘But it’s weird in a good way’. It’s hard to sum up the gig much better than that. This is the second of a three-night run of shows for Lenman, but for many fans in the

Tuesday 24 March 2020

LIVE: Employed to Serve / Palm Reader / Cruelty @ Camden Underworld, London

The last few minutes of Employed to Serve’s set are pure chaos. Their bass player has somehow lost his instrument, so instead of playing, he’s grabbing fans by the hand to pull them up on stage. The pit empties as more and more bodies pile onstage to join the

Tuesday 17 March 2020

LIVE: Gaffa Tape Sandy / Beach Riot / Gnarlah @ Komedia, Brighton

On a dreary Monday night, where the rain falls incessantly and everyone is rightly cautious about an impending pandemic, expectations are low at Brighton’s Komedia – a venue that’s usually used for comedy nights and unconventional club nights. They shouldn’t be. Adopted hometown heroes Gaffa Tape Sandy are top

Wednesday 11 March 2020

LIVE: The Maine @ O2 Forum, Kentish Town

It’s been a little under a year since The Maine were last at the O2 Forum Kentish Town kicking off their ‘You Are OK’ album cycle, and tonight we’re back in that very same venue to celebrate the closing night of the European tour. So much has

Tuesday 10 March 2020

LIVE: Beartooth / The Amity Affliction / Higher Power @ Academy 1, Manchester

If you were to suggest that many bands have had a bigger few years than Beartooth since the release of third album ‘Disease’, we’d struggle to believe you. Not that they were in any way a small band before this – Caleb Shomo has been a well known part

Monday 09 March 2020

LIVE: GroundCulture / Black Coast / Starved / Cut Short @ Satan’s Hollow, Manchester

Manchester, like most major cities, has its fair share of venues scattered across the city, with many doubling as pubs, clubs, cafes, and student unions. None, though, have quite the same impact as Satan’s Hollow; there’s a reason so many bands make reference to it on later tours, helped