Category: Review

Bristol’s in-yer-face punk quartet are back on the road with new songs and a fresh record deal to propel them into your consciousness. The Menstrual Cramps are fiercely independent and known for their raw energy and unapologetic lyrics, they tackle social and political issues head-on. Formed in adversity, the band’s music is a powerful blend…
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2000Trees – a Saturday to remember A Phil Davies perspective The final day of Trees ‘24, continued in a fine tradition of sore heads and hazy memories from the night before – the cornerstone of every great festival experience. But the music gave little time to recover. With South Wales’ Pizza Tramp quickly replacing hangover cobwebs…
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Brighton’s Knife Bride play metal through a gothic filter and are clawing their way up festival bills as they stamp their mark on the likes of Download and The Great Escape.

2007 seems a long time ago. In fact it is. 17 years in fact. That’s how long it is since Kids in Glass Houses burst out of Wales and soon graced every magazine on the music shelf at WH Smiths. Since then they have grown up and are no longer the kids of yesteryear, but…
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At the time of writing The Gaslight Anthem’s single ’45’ has notched up an appropriate 45million plays on Spotify… which has no doubt earled them enough for a round of drinks and a taxi home. Having been away, and then come back, the band have a truly solid back-catalogue and are in the process of…
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Gallus can’t help getting mentioned in the same breath as Biffy Clyro, perhaps helped by the Scottish overtones in the vocals. They are far from derivative though, creating their own sound which punches hard and fast, with lyrics that match.

It’s tough to ignore Enola Gay…they are popping up on so many festival lineups right now. And rightly so, because this Belfast band insinuates itself into you conciousness with slow-burning but incessant songs that are sometimes subtle and other times intense.

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.

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.

Indie alternative quintet Boston Manor hail from Blackpool – and appropriately – they ROCK!

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…

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.

Three Londoners intent on delivering queerecore HC punk to the masses… powerful stuff…

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.

Colourful queer-punk Londoners, The Oozes, deliver a bitter-sweet brand of contemporary commentary and mingle cheerfully with the crowd throughout the festival…

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.

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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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.

Friday turned out to be a brilliant day at 2000Trees and the crowds were as fantastic as the bands…