Peter Hook Strawberry Studios ForeverThe Plaza, Stockport 31st March 2025 A host of Manchester music legends and up and coming Stockport musicians came together at The Plaza Stockport with one objective: to honour the music recorded at the town’s iconic Strawberry Recording Studios. All of this was done as a celebration concert under the name...
Twin Noir Rhombus Manchester Rebellion April 3rd 2025 Live Review In which a Berlin duo playfully take a walk on the dark side in the Manchester nigh time with their electro EBM meets guitars sonic collision. Rebellion is such a great venue – a defiantly old school dark space where every high decibel band plays...
Marketplace: Contact Sports Out Now Self Release, Digital Indie-Alt-Pop 5-piece Marketplace have announced their upcoming new EP, Marketplace Mean Business, and released the radiant new single Contact Sports. The Hartlepool based band are currently riding a wave of critical acclaim ahead of their upcoming UK tour, including slots at The Great Escape and Y Not...
Jonny Humphries BBC News, Liverpool PA Media Mark McDonald said he would hand over the full findings of a panel of experts to the Criminal Cases Review Commission The barrister representing convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby has said he will hand over “fresh” medical evidence to the body responsible for investigating alleged miscarriages of...
Primal ScreamBristol Beacon31st March 2025 Primal Scream serenades Bristol Beacon with a slick and soulful new sound. Elliott Simpson reviews. You only realise how eclectic Primal Scream’s discography is once you see them live. For most of their forty-year career, the band have hopped back and forth between two distinct modes: Rolling Stones-inspired blues rock...
Real FarmerGullivers, Manchester March 31 2025 For the past decade, the Dutch underground scene has been an endless conveyor belt of fascinating and idiosyncratic bands that have put post-punk into new and invigorating shapes. Real Farmer are yet another enthralling example of this new noise. The Dutch lowlands have always been the great translator of...
backxwash: Only Dust Remains Ugly Hag Records/Self-Released Stream | Download Out Now Award winning Zambian-Canadian hip-hop artist and all-round polymath quietly releases one of the albums of this or any other year, an up to...
Anna Meisel & Paul Kenyon BBC File On 4 Investigates Getty Images The Environment Agency (EA) has launched a comprehensive review into shipments of waste tyres from the UK to India. Last week, BBC File on 4 Investigates heard that millions of these tyres – sent for recycling – were actually being “cooked” in makeshift...
dead things: Rum Do EP Cracked Ankles Records Limited 8in vinyl | DL Released 4 April 4.5 out of 5.0 stars4.5 dead things are back with their blistering debut EP, a sinister four tracks covering murder, history and… dead things. Wayne AF Carey reviews… dead things are a unique group in that they’re fascinated by...
MIEN: MIIEN (Fuzz Club) LP | CD | DL Out 18th April, 2025 4.0 out of 5.0 stars4.0 Psych-rock supergroup MIEN return with their second album and delve into an exploration that engulfs the listener in sounds that are altogether modern and classic, connecting decades of psychedelia through interwoven beats and sonics. Clipping, pulsating, grooving...
HENGE HENGE | Paddy SteerSt. Mary’s, Stockport29th March 2025 HENGE, the intergalactic masters of Cosmic Dross, have fine-tuned their extra-terrestrial frequencies for their latest mission – a UK and Europe tour set to blast audiences into sonic orbit. Known for their mind-bending fusion of space rock, techno and prog, the band transform St. Mary’s Church...
IOM: Spiritual Wasteland (Cruel Nature) Out Now DL/Cassette As IOM, the new album from Iker Ormazabal Martinez on Cruel Nature Records, Spiritual Wastelands refuses to censor the view that some people are afraid to acknowledge as more than just a disconcerting vision, whilst others pray that its existence is a nothing but factual. Review and...
Thus Love – Attic Leeds – 27th March 2025 Thus Love | Ain’t | CadThe Attic, Leeds27th March 2025 Andy Brown heads to The Attic to catch a set from American post-punks, Thus Love. He shares his thoughts for Louder Than War. Tonight, it seems, is all about firsts. It’s my first visit to The...
Mogwai : English Teacher BBC 6music Festival @ Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse March 28th 2025 In which two of the UK’s key game changing bands show how music can still be bent into intriguing new shapes. For many, the highlight of the weekend’s BBC 6Music festival is this intriguing bill at the 4000 capacity Victoria Warehouse....
Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (Bella Union) Vinyl | CD | DL available at Sister Ray 4.5 out of 5.0 stars4.5 Released 4 April Miki, Moose and Oliver rise from the ashes of Piroshka with their long awaited debut album Tripla, a nine song collection of ‘lush’ sound for the modern age. Wayne AF Carey reviews....