One final Glastonbury sunset awaits as Blur, Brand New and Bat for Lashes blow on the fading embers of yet another vintage year…
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July 2nd, 2009
Bon Iver watering Glastonbury’s Saturday mud bath…
July 2nd, 2009
Glastonbury’s Friday filled with frolics from Fleet Foxes, Lady Gaga, Jack White and White Lies…
July 2nd, 2009
Part I of Virgin Music’s official Glastonbury 2009 review including spills, shocks and Golden Silvers…
June 28th, 2009
Friday highlights at Glastonbury - after the rain, came the sun and then came the music. N*E*R*D’s Pharrell Williams, Little Boots, Hot Chip, Gabriella Cilmi and Lily Allen all paid their tribute to Michael Jackson. The Specials offered their take on the Glastonbury lineup and revealed no love loss for Lady GaGa - Terry Hall called her ‘gross’ and ‘obnoxious’. Lady GaGa herself seemed to prefer to chat her way through her set rather than sing, Jack White’s The Dead Weather played a surprise set and headliner Neil Young proved there’s life in the dog yet…
June 23rd, 2009
Glastonbury is on the horizon folks and it’s looking gigantic. So, what sets shouldn’t you miss and which hidden (and less well-hidden) treasures are waiting? Here’s a list of 10 bands not to miss…
June 23rd, 2009
Florence & The Machine’s leading lady chatting frantically about her rise to prominence last year as one of the BBC’s Sounds of 2009 and the Brits Critics Choice of the year as well asdishing the gossip about what she got up to backstage at the NME tour earlier this year with White Lies and Glasvegas…
June 23rd, 2009
Glastonbury regulars often profess that the festival is a home from home, an annual pilgrimage. Granted, very few people actually live in enormous fields jammed with music, mud and biodegradable pegs, but it is a valid point…
June 16th, 2009
July 26th sees the return of East London’s premier pretentious paradise a matter of metres away from Hoxton’s heart. The 1-2-3-4 Shoreditch Now Festival returns…
June 16th, 2009
Credible artists spawned from reality TV shows are few and far between and economic crises do little to alter such a true reality. Yet with this summer’s Blur reformation in full swing, bassist of the Colchester quartet Alex James obviously saw a glimmer of hope in the forlorn, longing eyes of Scottish troubadour-in-waiting Tommy Reilly whilst on the panel for this year’s Orange Unsigned Act…
June 16th, 2009
A haze of frenzied internet scrambles and disjointed voyages into the unknown have shrouded Blur’s reunion plans of the summer thus far and the first of several secret London shows proved to be no exception. Tonight, the turn of East London’s flagship Rough Trade store…
June 15th, 2009
With Just Jack and The Charlatans having meticulously cut down hundreds and thousands of entries from prospering British musical hopefuls, the voting has begun for the final six battling it out for an opening slot on the V Festival Stage both in Chelmsford and Staffordshire come August alongside the likes of Oasis, The Killers and Snow Patrol…
June 15th, 2009
Chances are you’ve not yet hunted down territorial Sunset Strippers Steel Panther. After all, they’ve vanished from the public eye for the past twenty years. Allegedly…
June 9th, 2009
What better way to expand the empire founded on this week’s number one album Sunny Side Up than heading out on a UK tour counting the heads of each and every loyal record purchaser? Whilst fans of Paolo Nutini may have to wait until the supposedly ’sunny’ Summer months have passed, the Scot’s 15-night stint’s […]
June 9th, 2009
And then there were six… Following the hoards of entries into this year’s Road to V campaign, mentors Just Jack and The Charlatans have whittled down the masses into a streamlined six. Up first, Birmingham’s 51 Breaks…
June 9th, 2009
Stripping back the glitz and the glam, here’s an acoustic bedroom cover of Kings of Leon’s Use Somebody…
June 8th, 2009
Remember the nicotine-stained troubadour musings of South London’s Jamie T? With this month’s show at the capital’s Electric Ballroom selling out in under two hours it’d seem so…
June 8th, 2009
Sprawling across Bristol city centre like ants at a picnic, Dot to Dot Festival thrives in the moment. Leaving no stone left unturned, the afternoon was spent chasing glimpses of sonic hope up and down Park Street…
June 8th, 2009
Recently I was fortunate enough to catch up with one of the most genuine guys in the business, Tommy Sparks, just following the release of his second single, She’s Got Me Dancing, and his debut self-titled album. We talked about his new record, his plans for the summer, thoughts on the current music scene, just how important playing live is to him and loads more…
May 14th, 2009
Hold onto your Kerrangs, pack a Metallica T-shirt (make that two) and don that trench; Sonisphere’s set to unleash its first attack on Britain. And the American invaders are all set. This August sees the salubrious, serene setting of Hertfordshire’s Knebworth House transformed into a bustling nucleus of desecration, destruction and debauchery with the Overlords of Purgatory brandishing axes (of the six-stringed variety), tearing through anything and everything in their path…
