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Counterfeit Magazine - A Music and Arts Magazine here to give support & exposure to new bands & artists and writers & photographers of any experience throughout the North of England.
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      Arcade Fire: Arena, Manchester
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Jonathan Scott

Festivals

Leeds Festival 2013

Written by Jonathan Scott, photos by Jenn McCambridge

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;…

Reviews

Wolf People – Fain

Written by Jonathan Scott

Since beginning as bedroom demos by front man Jack Sharp in 2005, the Wolf People project has gone through a number of transformations

Live Reviews

Detestival

Written by Jonathan Scott, photos by Jenn McCambridge

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…

Live Reviews

Electric Swing Circus: Queens Social Club, Sheffield

Written by Jonathan Scott, photos by Jamie Boynton

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…

Reviews

Jim Ghedi & Neal Heppleston of Abyssinia – (The Little Mester’s Recording Confederacy)

Written by Jonathan Scott

Ghedi & Heppleston have old heads on their young shoulders, but they don’t let it get them down. On ‘Of Abyssinia’ they go thousands…

Live Reviews

Mud Cats Blues Trio, Blood Sport, Champion Lover: Shakespeares, Sheffield

Written by Jonathan Scott, photos by Gerard Morgan

As I enter the top corner of Shakespeares, two things hit me; deafening volume and a woman with a sax. It sets the tone…

Reviews

Club Smith – Appetite For Chivalry

Written by Jonathan Scott

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…

Features

Silent Gestures

Written by Jonathan Scott, photos by Mark Tighe

I ask to meet Ben Scarff, stickman and riffmaker for Silent Gestures, as Siberian winds hit Barnsley. And where better to discuss psych rock…

Reviews

Likes Lions – First The Head, Later The Tale EP

Written by Jonathan Scott

‘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…

Live Reviews

Screaming Maldini, Cats:For:Peru, Bleech and The Kickliners: The Harley, Sheffield

Written by Jonathan Scott, photos by Nick Portus

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’….

Live Reviews

Hey Sholay, Best Friends and The Sweet Nothings: The Harley, Sheffield

Written by Jonathan Scott, photos by Jenn McCambridge

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…

Reviews

Young Peculiar – Young Peculiar EP

Written by Jonathan Scott

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…

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