LIVE: Sleep Token / Health @ OVO Arena Wembley

Photo Credit: Andy Ford This is no casual crowd at Sleep Token’s Wembley Arena show. Tickets sold out within ten minutes of going on sale some six months ago, and even though it’s nine days earlier than the mainstream day, this is our Christmas. Fishnets and face paint offer

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

Have Mercy – ‘Numb’

Have Mercy are finishing their 2023 on a high note. After a four year absence, the Baltimore alt-rockers are sober, healthier, older and wiser, and, most importantly, they’re still friends. “There’s a bond between us that’s undeniable,” vocalist and guitarist Brian Swindle says. “I think that’s something you can’t

Hot Milk, Witch Fever, Modern Error @ Academy, Manchester

LIVE: Hot Milk @ Kentish Town Forum

Hot Milk have gathered their tribe around them and descended upon North London. In the hundred metres or so between the station and the venue, every pedestrian you spot sports a beanie, post-emo piercings and inventive eyeliner highlighting wide-eyed anticipation. Do Han Mee and Jim Shaw deserve this level

LIVE: Babymetal @ The Roundhouse, London

“A long time ago, in a heavy metal galaxy far, far away,” a cinematic voice intones onscreen as a Japanese man in a magikarp hat raises his glowsticks in heady anticipation at the front of the stage, “the heavy metal fox god chose three spirits and summoned them to

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The Wonder Years, Origami Angel, Kississippi @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London

The Sleeping Souls – ‘Just Before The World Starts Burning’

It’s impossible to discuss the Sleeping Souls without considering Frank Turner. As they’re better known as the troubadour’s besties, we’ve all forgotten that they’re a band in their own right who are finally ready to release their debut under their own name. The questions needs to be asked –