Leeds Festival 2013
Leeds Fest – mecca for impressionable hood-rats, skaters, cool dads, cool kids and grim portaloos. That’s the thing about Leeds, the feeling of breadth;…
Wolf People – Fain
Since beginning as bedroom demos by front man Jack Sharp in 2005, the Wolf People project has gone through a number of transformations
Detestival
Equal parts gnarly hard rock and unapologetic noise, Detestival is Sheffield’s temple of shock. As the name suggests, and the body horror flicks spinning…
Electric Swing Circus: Queens Social Club, Sheffield
Sheffield gets cold and snowy while the gig goes on tonight. That pitter-patter? That would be five inches of snow hastily settling on and…
Jim Ghedi & Neal Heppleston of Abyssinia – (The Little Mester’s Recording Confederacy)
Ghedi & Heppleston have old heads on their young shoulders, but they don’t let it get them down. On ‘Of Abyssinia’ they go thousands…
Mud Cats Blues Trio, Blood Sport, Champion Lover: Shakespeares, Sheffield
As I enter the top corner of Shakespeares, two things hit me; deafening volume and a woman with a sax. It sets the tone…
Club Smith – Appetite For Chivalry
This Leeds/York have done pretty well for themselves with a sound heavily indebted to goth and the blustering globetrotters it spawned. As such, their…
Silent Gestures
I ask to meet Ben Scarff, stickman and riffmaker for Silent Gestures, as Siberian winds hit Barnsley. And where better to discuss psych rock…
Likes Lions – First The Head, Later The Tale EP
‘First The Tale Then The Head’ is emotional, bruising, and sometimes sci-fiy blend of Zen philosophers, jaunt guitar licks and Baroque bangers. Rising from…
Screaming Maldini, Cats:For:Peru, Bleech and The Kickliners: The Harley, Sheffield
Bleech flunk their first test tonight: always, always, thank Sheffield for having you. Don’t, on the other hand, begin with ‘We’re Bleech from Larnden’….
Hey Sholay, Best Friends and The Sweet Nothings: The Harley, Sheffield
Well they’ve shifted the pinball table, which is kind of them. With a undernourished room filling up by the second, there’s a slight tension…
Young Peculiar – Young Peculiar EP
Like many a future favourite, Young Peculiar’s first release is a grower that requires more than a cursory listen. The first thing to impress…