Reviews
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ReviewsFalse Advertising @ The Castle Hotel, 5 Aug
Manchester: so, so many bands to answer for right now. Is that really the rapidly changing means of distribution and access, or simply an increasingly commit... Read more »| 10 Aug 2016 -
ReviewsBlossoms @ Gorilla, 7 Aug
“It’s better than watching Sunday afternoon shit on the TV.” Blossoms frontman, Tom Odgen has got a point – matinée ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
ReviewsThe Fall @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 30 July
In 1988 Mark E Smith joined fellow maverick songwriters Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan for a drink in a south London boozer. The occasion was a magazine interv... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
ReviewsWild Beasts @ Brudenell Social Club, 26 July
The days of Wild Beasts taking a kind of 'Martin Amis novel', public-schoolboys-up-to-no-good approach to being sexy are long gone. Tonight’s home... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
Bluedot Festival 2016: The Review
We reflect on a weekend of science and sound at the Bluedot festival at Jodrell Bank Observatory Read more »| 28 Jul 2016 -
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DJ Shadow @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 20 July
The rumble of floor-quaking bass announces Joshua Paul Davis, aka DJ Shadow, to the gloom of the O2 ABC. Barely visible on the dimly lit stage, our maes... Read more »| 25 Jul 2016
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Ette @ The Old Hairdressers, 21 July
As parties go, this one gets off to a quiet start. Folk-popsters Randolph’s Leap usually appear as a 16-legged beast, but with the rhythm sec... Read more »| 25 Jul 2016 -
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Sun Kil Moon @ RNCM, Manchester, 20 July
Mark Kozelek delivers an occasionally spellbinding, but ultimately bloated, set in Manchester Read more »| 25 Jul 2016 -
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Lola Colt / ILL @ Soup Kitchen 14 July
"Theresa May, Theresa May / She’s not your friend if you are gay / Theresa May, Theresa May / Giving the best jobs to... FUCKING IDIOTS!” Should ... Read more »| 21 Jul 2016 -
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Weaves @ Nice N Sleazy, 17 July 2016
Weaves kick off their Sunday night show at Nice N Sleazy with the grunge/punk gripe Shithole – 'I'm living in a shithole,' frontwoman Jasmyn Burke... Read more »| 20 Jul 2016 -
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Father John Misty @ Guild of Students, 16 July
There are high expectations steeped upon Josh Tillman following the universal critical acclaim of I Love You, Honeybear, his second album under the... Read more »| 18 Jul 2016 -
Festivals
T in the Park 2016: Sunday, 10 July
Huge amounts of mud can do strange things to people, but with John Grant and LCD Soundsystem still to come, there's plenty to keep spirits up at T in the Park's third day Read more »| 15 Jul 2016 -
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T in the Park 2016: Saturday, 9 July
The Saturday forecast is a little grim, but what’s T in the Park without a little drizzle? The likes of The Last Shadow Puppets and The 1975 attem... Read more »| 13 Jul 2016 -
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T in the Park 2016: Friday, 8 July
It seems 2016 will be remembered as the year T in the Park finally made itself at home in Strathallan. The teething problems of last year's event feel ... Read more »| 13 Jul 2016 -
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James Blackshaw / John Lemke @ Glasgow Platform, 9 Jul
There's a detectable melancholy in Easterhouse; the stark, sad, drifting beauty of James Blackshaw’s material compounded by the recent announcement mar... Read more »| 12 Jul 2016