How did a band that play ambient, soft, instrumental rock music punctuated with 20th century public service messages and film samples end up filling a venue the size of Manchester Academy? There is no logical answer to this, there have not been any hits and there is no obvious mainstream appeal to their music. But […]
Trauma PR hosted As Everything Unfolds’ single release show on Friday night. The evening was a showcase of up and coming British metal. Opening the night were mathcore two piece Death Goals. The noisy duo showed great energy and a great stage presence considering the size of the crowd. Further to this the songs they […]
The Xcerts ended their headline tour at Scala in London playing to a room so packed you could barely move. The band opened with their latest single Day Dream, with an electrifying presence, before moving onto some old favourites I Don’t Care and Live Like This. The crowd erupted during the chorus of Crisis In The Slow Lane ‘We all say, we are tired of feeling […]
Marking the end of their short but sweet ‘Great Expectation’ tour, The Strypes played at Brixton’s Electric, bringing their punk-fuelled bluesy sound back to London before jetting off to America to play the next leg of the tour. Micheal Jablonka opened the evening, warming up the crowd with his blend of rock and soul. Not […]
The task of getting the party started on this Friday night goes to introspective indie-punks Shit Present. They make friends with their largely unfamiliar crowd by peeling out a series of songs that drive slowly towards huge, cathartic choruses. Vocalist Iona Cairns warms the crowd with her powerfully vulnerable melodies whilst the punk rock Duracell […]
Well, direct support for Papa Roach is Ho99o9 who make themselves noticed with a pretty impressive sized banner but no real connection to this crowd. The energy on stage is there but the general combination of sounds in a hip hop and unpredictable and unclear metal fusion ideas fail to get a single person in […]
Undertone, Cardiff’s little basement venue is the destination for tonight as post-hardcorers Canvas promote their recently released album Worry. Due to work and the delay to all the trains (thanks football and Arriva Trains Wales…), I arrive at the venue almost at the end of local and opening band Defeatist. What I did catch though […]
Indie-pop five-piece, Coasts, took to Camden’s Electric Ballroom last night, turning the venue into an electronic dream-fest, debuting songs from their new sophomore album, ‘This Life, Vol.1 ’. Storming on stage to the sounds of thunderous applause and the eardrum bursting screams of everyone in the venue, Coasts began their set with the synth-fuelled ‘Modern […]
If you can rely on one thing in life, it’s terrible weather in Manchester. Just on the short walk from the station I get soaked and it’s a relief to duck into the small but welcoming Rebellion club. Main support tonight comes from South African/British alt rock trio New Volume and their catchy, hook laden […]
After a 35 minute delay due to the necessity of erecting a barrier for this sold out show, The Bottom Line still take to the stage with full force as the Imperial March (Star Wars) theme starts up before opening with their latest single I Still Hate You, as the crowds reception is nothing short […]
The dark confines of Southampton’s The Joiners are just beginning to fill as Basingstoke pop-punk outfit We Deny take to the stage. Their set is twenty minutes of easycore riffing and singalong choruses, belted out with bravado by vocalist Loren Mancini who takes ownership of the stage for this brief time. Their tried and tested […]
Opening up the show are pop-punkers Homebound! Their guitars are very Neck Deep-esque, and for most of the first half of the set, it is hard to hear the vocals but after a quick technical issue break, we get down to business with easy to hear and pretty good vocals. They are very energetic and, […]
Soon after doors open a huge wall of sound rises through the house speakers to a fairly empty room as THECITYISOURS takes the stage by storm putting on a massively impressive show to kick things off, while the Islington Academy gradually starts to fill. A cover of Labrinth – Earthquake has people singing along, although […]
Following the release of their third album, ‘The Water‘, and almost exactly two years since their last show in London, San Cisco brought all their glittery Australian surf/ psychedelic/ indie/ pop/ rock grooves to The Garage. San Cisco are a great live band. This is an indisputable fact. From the moment they came on stage […]
As the house lights go down for openers Starset, 2 lit up screens on each side of the stage illuminate the room while a deep rumbling bass tone fills the O2 Forum for a lengthy duration, causing the onlookers to give up chanting their name while eagerly awaiting any sign of life on stage. Now […]
