Reviews
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ReviewsUltimate Painting @ Deaf Institute, 30 Sep
“I feel like we only attract people who want to go home straight after,” Jack Cooper half-jokes. “Be honest, you’re all going home af... Read more »| 05 Oct 2016 -
ReviewsXamVolo @ Magnet, Liverpool, 20 Sep
Offering a short but sweet set at Liverpool's resurgent red leather dive joint, The Magnet, soulful vocalist and producer XamVolo has the audience lapping it... Read more »| 05 Oct 2016 -
ReviewsThe Goon Sax @ Headrow House, Leeds, 28 Sep
The Goon Sax don’t like to talk about their ties with The Go-Betweens all that much. Despite the obvious semblances – particularly Loui... Read more »| 05 Oct 2016 -
FestivalsLiverpool Psych Fest: Saturday 24 Sep
The second day of the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia can be a tough proposition for any true cosmonaut who entered the abyss the evening bef... Read more »| 04 Oct 2016 -
ReviewsThe Kills @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 29 Sep
Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart kick off their first UK tour in five years in incendiary style in Manchester Read more »| 04 Oct 2016 -
ReviewsCatholic Action @ King Tut's, 25 Sep
If you thought there was no place for 70s glam rock in 2016, Catholic Action are here to prove you wrong. The Glaswegian four-piece, fronted by the long-lock... Read more »| 04 Oct 2016
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ReviewsHoneyblood @ The Hug & Pint, 26 Sep
With their second album Babes Never Die out on FatCat in November, Scottish duo Honeyblood are back with a reinvigorated performance that showcases the bulk ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
ReviewsColleen Green & Cassie Ramone @ The Castle, Manchester, 26 Sep
The north-east U.S. double act are on fine individual form in the Northern Quarter Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsNatalie McCool @ Electric Circus, 21 Sep
This year's dropped more indicators than usual that the world we occupy is a crooked, unjust place. Still – if there's any decency left in 2016, then N... Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
FestivalsLiverpool Psych Fest: Friday 23 Sep
From Super Furry Animals to Silver Apples, we take in the sights and sounds of day one at Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia Read more »| 27 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsDeap Vally @ Invisible Wind Factory
Setting the tone for the night are local outfit Indigo Moon. A unique blend of modern psychedelia and blues, their trippy, fuzzy guitar loops are combined wi... Read more »| 22 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsNothing @ Deaf Institute, 14 Sep
Now touring their second album Tired of Tomorrow, Philadelphia four-piece Nothing have something of a chequered past. Given the band’s nihilistic back ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsPinegrove @ The Hug & Pint, 7 Sep
It’s heaving in The Hug & Pint tonight. Perhaps it’s the incremental hype built up by Pinegrove’s burgeoning reputation as fine tunesmi... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsFrankie Cosmos @ Stereo, Sep 5
"I'm - we're - Frankie Cosmos," announces Greta Kline, as her three band members settle themselves behind their instruments; a visual reminder that everythin... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
FestivalsFestival No.6 2016: Review
In the trippy 1960s TV show The Prisoner, a mysterious giant white balloon called Rover was employed to ensure Patrick McGoohan’s titular character (No... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016