Festivals and gigs. A listings calendar, plus previews, news, reviews, and photos
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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[ad_1] DITZ at Rockaway Beach 2024 Cal Francis is the androgynous front man of DITZ, and for the last five years or so he and his band have been carving their name into the grain of the Brighton music scene and gradually working on breaking out to wider attention. Whether Butlins at Bognor was on…
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[ad_1] Our super-snapper does it again with these great shots of ĠENN from Rockaway Beach 2024 Leona’s voice and vocal stylings coupled with the band’s heavy riffs and angry drums put the Anglo-Maltese band, GENN, into a world populated by Kate Bush, Souisxie Sioux, and the kind of metal bands who are most at home…
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[ad_1] Chalk fundamentally understand the dynamics of a live show… …and singer Ross Cullen REALLY knows his way around a vocal delay effect pedal! If we were to put Chalk into a pigeonhole they would find themselves filed alongside Glasgow’s current industrial post-something darlings of the live music scene, VLURE (who we’ve been championing throughout…
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[ad_1] M(H)aol are an atmospheric experience out of Ireland – where they ‘Don’t have Butlins’ so ‘feel like they are on TV’. Eight years after forming and just under a year since the release of their first LP, M(H)aol (that’s ironically ‘Male’), espouse post-punk feminism to a soundtrack that shimmers with a Sonic Youth vibe.…
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[ad_1] Shouty and as politically driven as ever, BENEFITS kick off our 2024 Festival season with a bang at Rockaway Beach Benefits… question EVERYTHING with their unique brand of LOUD freestyle jazz political poetry amidst a barrage of crowd blinding strobes. Possibly a hint of anti-Tory sentiment in there somewhere? 2024… we’re expectcting great things…
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