Festivals and gigs. A listings calendar, plus previews, news, reviews, and photos
Let’s just put this right up front – The Great Escape Festival always manages to be ahead of the curve when it come to new bands … it’s pretty much the whole point of the event. It was created with the thinking that UK bookers need to be exposed to new bands from across the…
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THURSDAY BEACH STAGE There’s a very good reason we put HotWax on our ‘must see’ TGE23 list…and also why we have been championing them as a band to watch for the last year or so. Quite simple they ooze with all the elements that make a great live band…not least that they have a great…
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THURSDAY MVT BEACH Lots of things are going on with KIDS. Their music slips and slides from mainstream pop to deep indie realms laced with punk and reggae. If you follow the Hastings scene you’ll spot similarities to Buddha Triangle (why they are not playing this year’s TGE baffles us) – and that is a…
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THURSDAY TGE BEACH STAGE Sugary sweet and full of high-register soul, Saint Harison is a big guy who aches off frailty. Backed by three talented vocalists who could probably each hold an audience in the palm of their hand he delivers a powerful pop punch that will find a happy home at Pride festivals or…
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THURSDAY KOMEDIA BASEMENT Unreconstructed pub-rock with an almost Electric Six edge beneath the rough-as-gold-prospector’s-scrotum exterior, C.O.F.F.I.N. are a band who need way too many keystrokes to type their name too often on a phone… Opening the Australian invasion of TGE23 they play to a near-capacity crowd downstairs at Komedia and if you like your riffs…
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