Dead Pony at 2000Trees 2024
Scotland’s Dead Pony have clearly had enough of not being heard… so they recently relaunched themselves with a 16-track debut LP that reads like a zeitgeist manifesto for Gen-Z.
Cherym at 2000Trees 2024
A little bit of garage, and lot of punk, and a dose of pop – Derry has spawned a brilliantly upbeat trio who are relatively new to the scene but already making waves and ploughing their own furrow through a crowded scene.
Boston Manor at 2000Trees 2024
Indie alternative quintet Boston Manor hail from Blackpool – and appropriately – they ROCK!
Meryl Streek at 2000Trees 2024
Somehow we’ve managed to miss Meryl Streek up until now… which is what we love about 2000Trees, because it alwsys delivers up acts who become your new favourites… this is no-holds-barred punk poetry of the highest order…
NOBRO at 2000Trees 2024
Montreal’s NOBRO have been banging out bangers since 2014, and after hundreds of live shows they have polished their party-punk anthems so they sparkle.
Shooting Daggers at 2000Trees 2024
Three Londoners intent on delivering queerecore HC punk to the masses… powerful stuff…
Static Dress at 2000Trees 2024
With a quarter of a million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, Static Dress have as epic a fanbase as their sound… it’s intense and enthralling in equal measure.
The Oozes at 2000Trees 2024
Colourful queer-punk Londoners, The Oozes, deliver a bitter-sweet brand of contemporary commentary and mingle cheerfully with the crowd throughout the festival…
The Pale White at 2000Trees 2024
Recently reborn and revitalised, Newcastle’s The Pale White are a sound for sore ears. Tuneful and heavy in equal measure… and as watchable as they are listenable.
Pork Pie at Stone Valley Midlands 2024
Two decades on, and Edinburgh’s ska/reggae meastros. Pork Pie, are still going strong.
Republica at Stone Valley Midlands 2024
Republica are a cheeky band at heart, and today at Stone Valley Midlands Saffron is joined on guitar by Paul-Ronney Angel (the lead honcho in Urban Voodoo Machine) as he has taken up the role for this summer of festivals.
Peter Hook and The Light at Stone Valley Midlands 2024
With a huge back catalogue of Joy Division and New Order tunes to plunder – plus his own new material, Peter Hook’s sets always fill arenas with sing-along moments.
Death of Guitar Pop at Stone Valley Festival Midlands, 2024
Perennial favourites at this little one-stage boutique festival for fans of ska, punk and classic 90s indie, Death of Guitar Pop came, saw, and conquered.
Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls and Death From Above 1979 at 2000Trees 2024
Two cracking bands back to back at 2000Trees. It’s been too many year since we last saw Death From Above 1979… but it’s been worth the wait. Frank Turner, on the other hand, is now a permanent fixture on the festival circuit… and he perfectly straddles the worlds of indie-rock and folk to appeal to…
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Bands at 2000Trees 2024
Just a big selection of great band shots from this year’s 2000Trees – which remains one of our favourite rock festivals… small and perfectly formed.
Bob Vylan crowdsurfers and a game of ‘Baggo’ at 2000Trees 2024
Friday turned out to be a brilliant day at 2000Trees and the crowds were as fantastic as the bands…
People at 2000Trees 2024
What a great festival…as ever. 2000Trees delivers that perfect mix of bands in a setting that makes it almost impossible to miss anything… If rock is your thing then 2000Trees is your festival. Next year maybe you will be in our gallery…
Cockney Rejects at Stone Valley Midlands 2024
They never fail to deliver – Cockney Rejects simply epitomise punk rock
Buzzcocks at Stone Valley Midlands 2024
Ever fallen in love with a festival – we just did at Stone Valley Midlands… what a great event!
Echobelly at Stone Valley Midlands 2024
Proper indie-bangers all the way from Echobelly! Photos by Sara-Louise Bowrey
Cassandra Jenkins at The Great Escape 20204
This is the musical equivalent of elegant dining, and Cassandra Jenkins serves up a proper taster menu of complimentary flavours. Jazzy aromas arise from a plate of pop-sensibilities, whilst new-age guitar rock pours across the dish like an unctuous sauce with a gloss of poetic insight. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Eaves Wilder at The Great Escape 2024
Eaves Wilder has a target audience – her 14-year-old self. She writes catchy but gentle takes on riot-G motifs and tries to be at her own shoulder as an often sad young teenager to promise her that life will soon open out into a world of opportunity. You don’t have to be a 14-year-old girl…
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Venus Grrrls at The Great Escape 2024
Life’s a riot for these five Leeds girrrls, and their music is firmly rooted in that impassioned proto-punk phenomenon, but it also screams with pop-protocols that bring it bang up-to-date for discerning Gen-Z be-boppers to get all sweaty and heady to. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Barking Poets at The Great Escape 2024
You can’t avoid listening the Barking Poets and imagining how they must have spent many a long sweaty night pogoing to The Clash down at the local school disco. The alt-punk London band wears this retro badge firmly and proudly on its sleeve like a boy scout with a merit for woodcraft. It’s unreconstructed classic…
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Chubby Cat at The Great Escape 2024
Ireland isn’t all about new snarly, rappy, or massively electro bands these days… the country continues to produce delightful voices too… it’s in the population’s green genes. But Chubby Cat does fuse her vocal talent with some interesting nu-rock hooks, and synth-heavy backing tracks – and her lyrics don’t mince words either. Joined on stage…
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Eighty Eight Miles at The Great Escape 2024
Eighty Eight Miles are a relatively new Midlands outfit who’s influences hark back to the classic rock/pop scene of the heady 70s that came out of the west coast of the USA. You can pick out the elements for yourself to work out what’s in their collective old vinyl collection … but with interest from…
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Emilio at The Great Escape 2024
Hailing from East Berlin but via Southern Spain, Morocco, and Ireland’s BIMM Institute in Dublin, Emileo delivers celtic-inspired songs that blend with electronic beats and Eastern influences. She was applauded by Sinéad O’Connor for a very ‘special’ something, and she wants to change the world. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Holy Wars at The Great Escape 2024
Los Angeles has spawned a monster… Holy Wars. Kat Leon and co-creator Nicolas Perez slice and dice epic rock with a punk scalpel sharp enough to split the atom. Since 2017 the duo have achieved accolade upon accolade and have developed a powerful stage show that perfectly counterpoints the acrobatic production of their full-speed songs.…
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Hot Garbage at The Great Escape 2024
A modern take on psych-kraut-rock from this Toronto-based four-piece, in whose raw garage production ethic you can almost hear the spanners rattling on their hooks on the wall. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Immy at The Great Escape 2024
Soulful jazz-funk pours effortlessly out of the talented Immy, a young woman with a big voice. With deep Bristol roots and a deeply insightful knack for a vocal hook, she will be haunting the Jazz Cafe and many other cool nightspots before you know it. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Kathlen Morrison at The Great Escape 2024
Two voices wrapped so tightly around each other that you can hardly spot the join. This is a proper she/they duo out of Berlin who can make even the biggest stage an intimate experience for their audoence. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Kneecap at The Great Escape 2024
Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí create uncompromising Irish hip-hop that rises from the gutters of Belfast and wraps itself around your throat in a stanglehold grip. Be afraid. Be happy. Be yourself. Listen to Kneecap. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Lost Romantic at The Great Escape 2024
Armed with just a drumkit, a powerful vocal, and a host of dexterously produced backing tracks featuring all your favourite guitar and key parts, Lost Romantic are two charismatic musicians on a mission to blow cobwebs out of the rafters of venues around the world. Proper diva-geezers. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
The Meat Sweaters at The Great Escape 2024
We’ve come all over with fond memories of DEVO at their quintessential best listening the The Meat Sweaters. Those sharp spiky synth lines and impassioned machine gun lyrics are a proper blast back to less complicated days. But this is modern music too. It stands tall alongside the Squids of the world, and, quite correctly,…
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Mister Strange at The Great Escape 2024
Unreconstructed heavy rockers, Mister Strange, hark from Manchester and offer up simple, no-holds-barred old-time heavy guitars and a sip of simple seventies pleasure for aging headbangers or nu-rock moshers alike. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Monakis at The Great Escape 2024
Monakis have been ripping the throat out of the South East music scene alongside acts such as Kid Kapichi and SNAYX for the last few years, and their live shows always growl with visceral hunger. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Neckbreakers at The Great Escape 2024
Pop almost goes nu-country as Neckbreakers showcase something that also has echoes of Fleetwood Mac… and those echoes are really quite strong. Things feel fun when the beat picks up and its lazy in the breaks. A real roller-coaster of lightweight indie rock that punches above its grade. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
System Exclusive at The Great escape 2024
‘On a mission to make strangers misty in the disco‘ is the proclamation in System Exclusive’s press pack. They have squeezed their minimalistic music into a simple van-life-style and having set out from their native California are now looking to find new friends and fans who are open to old-school, synth-ridden harmonics laced with up-tempo,…
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Tom Saint at The Great Escape 2024
‘Music for the clinically spooky and horny‘ reads Tom Saint’s super-brief Spotify bio. His songs definitely do have a scary-movie vibe to them…you can sense them prowling down dark corridors and around the bins in back-alleys as the lights flicker and splutter and the air vibrates with sinister, ghostly echoes of atrocities past or yet…
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Unpeople at The Great Escape 2024
With a busy festival season ahead of them, Londoners Unpeople will be rocking and rolling their way to a field near you very soon. Solid anthemic riffs with soaring vocals and the sort of full-metal-jacket basslines that fill stadiums with throbbing waves of sonic loveliness. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
