 Somewhere lurking in the darkest recesses of my iTunes is an album, none of its songs feature in my top 25 most played and only a couple have ever had the honour of featuring on one of my extremely exclusive playlists. Over the last three or four days however, Broken Social Scenes stock has risen sharply on my laptop. I play new album Forgiveness Rock Record on my way to work. I sing along to the layered gems on Feel Good Lost in the house.
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 For many years the live music scene in Bradford has failed to tempt bands and artists of a certain size away from the well trodden paths of neighbouring Leeds and Manchester. Despite the hard work of individuals and collectives, the uphill struggle to get Bradford's pin on the tour managers map continues. So when word spreads that an established artist has decided to stop for a curry and a singsong in the city, they are inevitably rewarded
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 I first heard of Beatherder about 6 years ago when a colleague was muttering drunkenly in the pub about a festival gathering in some woods that some mates of hers were putting on. For some ridiculous reason I couldn’t make it that year, and never got around to going any other year either. Until now, when one week after Glastonbury, I dragged my wellies and air mattress back out into a field full of nutters and noise for 3 more days of silliness.
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 Raising the roof is no mean feat when akin to live performances, Sheffield unsigned night, Soundclash are taking it to the Abbeydale Picture House with a special one off-show encompassing four acts.
Standing proud on Abbeydale Road since 1920, the neo-classical building also encompasses a snooker hall and an intimate live venue (Bar Abbey) downstairs.
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 Once again it was one of those all too rare gigs when you’d be hard pushed to decide whether the support or the headliners made more of an impression. The Leadmill was full, but not rammed, which was a good thing, considering how hot the night was. I’m sure most of the audience were new to the name of John Grant, but a few might just remembered he was once the lead singer with the Czars, themselves former label-mates of Midlake
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 An extra 24 hours for the Party People at Moor Music Festival!
Moor Music Festival remains small yet thinks big in its sixth year, adding another day for the merrymaking from 12 – 15 August when a small patch of the rolling hills near Skipton, North Yorkshire will be converted into a temporary tented village.
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 NME or Kerrang…NME or Kerrang…this is what was going through my mind as I set about to watch The Little Million’s single launch. Having met two members of the band a few weeks before the gig, I was given the task of working out what genre of music they actually fit into…
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 Ten years since their last outing and Neil Barnes is taking the helm, without co-conspirator Paul Daley. This is not a problem. Barnes knows what he is doing, we, the audience, have faith. The spectators all lined up waiting to be taken back to, what some would say was our day…as I look around we’re all roughly the same age (though a lady never gives her age away, I shall leave you guessing at this)
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