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From Friday 04 March 2016

LIVE: Enter Shikari / The Wonder Years / The King Blues / Arcane Roots @ Alexandra Palace, London

Well that wasn’t a show you’ll see every day. While those of us who went are still pulling ourselves off the ceiling, Enter Shikari are feeling on top of the world right now, and rightfully so. It was a night to remember at Alexandra Palace and the culmination of

Thursday 03 March 2016

LIVE: Slipknot / Suicidal Tendancies/ Sikth @ Alexandra Palace

This show is about celebrating bands that have been around since at least 1999, and in today’s throw away world, both materialistically and conceptually, is quite some feat. Tonight is all about Slipknot, who return to London for a two night slot at Alexandra Palace – not bad for a band

Wednesday 02 March 2016

LIVE: Fatherson / Boy Jumps Ship @ The Hope, Brighton

For many years now Scotland has consistently delivered high class acts, both in the mainstream and within the alternative genres, with the likes of Twin Atlantic, Prides and The Xcerts (to name a few) doing incredibly well for themselves. Despite releasing their debut album ‘I Am An Island’ in

LIVE: Allison Weiss / Jenny Owen Youngs / Yellowbirdd @ Barfly, London

As main support Jenny Owen Youngs joins Allison Weiss on stage for a full band rendition of ‘Good Way’, it feels like we are part of the clique. Not an elitist one, but rather the one that would sit around a campfire on the beach drinking a few cold

Tuesday 01 March 2016

Live: Snuff / Bad Cop Bad Cop / Spoilers @ Academy 3, Manchester

UK punk pioneers Snuff have been unassumingly plugging away for three decades and this tour marks 30 years since the original trio formed in a London café. Do they still have it in them to go full pelt and put on a proper show? Absolutely. Kent-based Spoilers open the evening

Friday 26 February 2016

LIVE: Mewithoutyou / The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die @ Tufnell Park Dome, London

The last time Mewithoutyou toured the UK, we still had a Myspace Top 8, Crunkcore was an exciting new movement and Bring Me The Horizon were a metal band. In the years since, the Philadelphia elder statesmen of don’t-call-it-emo have released three albums, while Connecticut’s The World Is A

Monday 22 February 2016

LIVE: The Front Bottoms @ KOKO, London

There was a moment of realisation on the way into London, one of those that jolts you out of contemplative daydreaming straight into a wide-eyed awakening. The Front Bottoms have sold out KOKO. It’s a huge leap from their days playing to intimate crowds at the Barfly, or even

Wednesday 17 February 2016

LIVE: Basement / Tigers Jaw / Alex G @ Academy 2, Manchester

Tonight’s headliners have come a long way from the first time I saw them supporting Title Fight 5 years ago at the Star & Garter. Needless to say their success has been well deserved, going from humble beginnings to a part-time band, then to full-time, seeing their crowds diversify

Tuesday 16 February 2016

LIVE: The Black Queen / Drab Majesty @ Oslo, Hackney

Side projects usually tend to go one of several ways. They are either an extension of an artist’s main body of work, something completely different and interesting, or just a vanity project to shine a spotlight upon them. When you listen to The Black Queen’s stunning debut album ‘Fever

Monday 15 February 2016

LIVE: Citizen / Turnover / Fade @ The Dome, London

What happens when you put two of the hottest US exports on one bill in London? You get a sold out, milestone show. That is the easiest way to describe the night that Citizen and Turnover came to London together. The show has been long sold out, and both