With the weather treating Latitude to a rare glimpse of a proper summer, Saturday was a beautifully chilled affair, with crowds lounging around, enjoying the music, comedy, dance, food, and frolics. Our cameras were busy capturing the smiles – did we snap you?
Last year we came home from Latitude with one band lodged firmly in our heads. Scustin. Out of Bray in Ireland, Scustin sit somewhere between funk and indie guitar punk. And if one other Irish band similar comes to mind, it’s Republic of Loose… who are sadly missed, but burned fiercely for a few fleeting…
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Thursday may have seen a spot of rain, but the Latitude festival site simply drank it up and as the Friday crowds spilled into the arena everything was dry, and the sun shone down. Out and about we snapped hundreds of Latitude festival goers absorbed in music, food, comedy, theatre and dance. Are you in…
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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.
Notching up almost 1/2million Spotify listeners every month, Cassyette’s palatable brand of noisy indie-rock ticks all the boxes. It’s the looks AND the lifestyle.
Hot on the heels of Nova Twins and proof if any were needed that rock and metal are not the exclusive domain of white men, ALT BLK ERA have already been nominated for a MOBO/Heavy Music award and played at Glastonbury, Download, and Reading/Leeds. Lock up your sons…
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 decades on, and Edinburgh’s ska/reggae meastros. Pork Pie, are still going strong.
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.
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.
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.
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…
They never fail to deliver – Cockney Rejects simply epitomise punk rock
Ever fallen in love with a festival – we just did at Stone Valley Midlands… what a great event!
Proper indie-bangers all the way from Echobelly! Photos by Sara-Louise Bowrey
Is ‘post-pop’ a thing? I can’t be bothered to look it up because I’m sure it is… and if I did the Google thing I’m pretty sure that crysometimes would appear as a top hit. There’s something very 90s about these songs … clearly defined and sugar coated with a mildly bitter-sweet centre… sort of…
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Talking to two-thirds of CHALK (Benedict and Luke) at the merch table before their sold-out Brighton gig at The Green Door Store the chatter revolved mainly around the current Irish powerhouse music scene and how there seem to be so many bands emerging from the Emerald Isle right now. Mentions of some of our current…
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Rockaway Beach Festival at Butlins, Bognor Regis, never fails to put a post-New Year smile on our faces as it’s one of the most consistently well-curated line-ups in the festival calendar. With just two musical stages and a central ‘speakers corner’ to navigate, the festival is super-compact, and the organisers time the performances perfectly so…
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DEADLETTER take no prisoners by launching straight into ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ as a means of kicking the MainStage into gear with the very first bars of their opening set on the Sunday night of Rockaway Beach. It’s a fast, furious, and rousing song that will hopefully be a significant part of their pensions… But that…
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Definitely the audience reaction of the weekend!!! SNAYX [fb_vid id=”349336154534231″] Source
That familiar ‘snakes on a plane’ intro track signals what so many people have been waiting all weekend for… it’s launch control initiated, and time for the nicest two guys off stage to transform into snarling (but always smiling) anti-establishment ASBOs on stage… SNAYX are all about the bass… and Boys in Blue shakes leftover…
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Reading up on Joyeria for a bit of background throws up some hints – but few facts. The name of the man is carefully masked, with only a few biographic clues scattered around the internet. He’s Canadian, a chess player, and apparently good at sums. Spotify confusingly states his name is pronounced ‘Pizzeria’. What his…
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Luke Duffett presents lounge cabaret for a disaffected generation – with occasional crowd surfing (but not today). There may be a big crowd for this opening set at Rockaway Beach 2024, but it is Sunday, and it is only noon. Few reviews of Enjoyable Listens manage to avoid references to Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Jarvis…
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[ad_1] Lonely Tourist at Rockaway Beach 2024 Keeping the tempo up, but bringing in a more relaxing folk-pop vibe is/are Lonely Tourist, a singer/songwriter, duo, or a band (as the mood suits) from Scotland or Bristol (wherever he happens to have last closed the front door). Tonight it’s duo mode, with jobbing guitarist Chris Webb…
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[ad_1] Skids at Rockaway Beach 2023. As foot-stomping romps down memory lane go, a Skids gig is up there with the best They may not be a band who can play 60 mins of top-ten bangers back-to-back, but they had notable chart success with songs like Into the Valley and Working for the Yankee dollar,…
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