Music

A.A.Williams | SpotlightsStrange Brew, Bristol4th February 2026 Partway through an extensive winter tour, A.A.Williams delivers a majestic performance of both fragile restraint and crushing power at Bristol’s Strange Brew. New York’s Spotlights are along for the run, making tonight a commanding post-metal masterclass to behold. Music that moves. It can be emotional. It can be physical. In a live environment, it can often be both. Tonight’s two performances pull this in abundance from a devoted mid-week crowd. There…

Win a PAIR of tickets for the Skids Absolute Weekend Skids are currently touring the UK to mark the anniversary of the bands third album The Absolute Game which was released via Virgin Records back in 1980; the album was the last to feature Stuart Adamson, and resulted in three singles entering the UK Official Chart, with Circus Games peaking at #32 and the band making two Top Of The Pops appearances. As part of the celebrations the…

The Skids Skids | The VaporsElectric Ballroom, London30th January 2026 Forty-seven years ago this month, Richard Jobson kicked Skids into the national consciousness. Now LTW’s Phil Ross and Naomi Dryden-Smith head to Camden to see who’s dancing – and get brought back to earth with a bump. I’m excited. I’ve seen Skids several times and it’s always a good show. But this time there’s a slight tinge of nerves as I step out of Camden Town tube at…

Withdrawn, Condemned – A Childhood of Punk Rock Music and Railway Enthusiasm by Hugh Gadjit Published by Shunt Limit 299 pages Out Now Hugh Gadjit takes us on an autobiographical journey through 70s youth culture running parallel to an obsession with trains and arriving at punk rock central. Probably the perfect book for rail punks, says Nathan Brown. In this book, Hugh Gadjit starts off as a small child entranced by model rail, which develops into an obsession…

Photo by Patricia Rosingana After a whirlwind breakout year, Dublin electropunk trio YARD are back with a new EP, YARD II, a five track release that sharpens, darkens, and distorts everything they set in motion with their debut. Blending post-punk abrasion with the relentless pulse of techno, the trio have quickly carved out a reputation for music that feels as physical as it is confrontational – designed as much for the body as the mind. In this track…

The masked men are back with two killer new tracks. Evil Blizzard have long been embraced for their great live shows and macabre masks – it makes for great horror show thrills that is so mesmerising that sometimes you can forget how ground breaking and intoxicating their music is. Breaking away from their four bass line up the new Evil Blizzard still deals in heavy dark grooves Andi’s great ground breaking music that you can dance to. They…

Broken Lungs follow-up last year’s Funeral Envy single with No Remedy. Birmingham hardcore punks Broken Lungs return screaming with No Remedy, a blistering new single that distills everything the band does best into three-minutes-twenty-five-seconds of pure, unapologetic rage. Relentless from the opening hit, the track barrels forward with serrated riffs, pit-ready rhythms and a venomous vocal performance that refuses to let up. Lyrically, No Remedy cuts deeper than simple fury. It confronts the pettiness of grudges, the self-destruction…

Manchester: The Biography By Ed Glinert Out Now by Great Northern Books:  Illustrated by Polyp: Design by David Burrill Manchester: The Biography is a brilliant and wide-ranging account of one of Britain’s most influential cities, charting Manchester’s journey from its early origins through industrial dominance to its modern cultural identity. Written by long-time journalist and tour guide Ed Glinert. He is clearly deeply embedded in the city’s history, and the book combines detailed research with a lively, opinionated…

LTW tipped Hungry come at us firing on all cylinders with their latest single Cambridge Is On Fire, a rip roaring fiery post punk slamdunk with vitriolic vocals from Peck and the fearsome backbone of our adopted Mancs. Read on… Unabated guitar energy and Manchester’s most engaging, crowd-mingling front man meets the forgotten histories and uneasy myths of the East Anglian fens as the city’s fun-punks, HUNGRY return with new single, Cambridge Is On Fire. The band’s first…

The Boo Radleys are set to return to action againin spring 2026 with news of a brand new album. Entitled In Spite Of Everything, it will be the band’s ninth album and their third since their well-received return with 2021’s Keep On With Falling. The band will also be setting out on a series of UK / Ireland tour dates in support of the album’s release which is scheduled for 1st May 2026.  A handful of dates in…