Paul Weller promises those in the First Direct Arena a mixed bag of an evening with something from every corner of the four decades of his career.
The first of tonight’s two support acts is Green Gardens. They are a fairly unremarkable looking bunch of young lads (if you ignore the fact that one of them is a clear foot taller than
Three years ago Public Service Broadcasting released ‘The Race for Space’ and I became obsessed with it. It made me feel like I was a child watching the developments of the space race between the
As the sun steps over into the west I immediately escape it’s warming beams and duck into The Belgrave Music Hall for half an hour of Dusk. The local four-piece are all electronic moodiness and
Tonight’s billing is one of singer-songwriters and, mercifully, from the moment he steps on stage with his accompanying cellist, Oliver Pinder confirms that he has just enough personality and just enough of an edge to
Occasionally, there are songs that grab your attention so firmly when they come on the radio that you know – even from perhaps just hearing a few bars – they are going to become an
Everywhere you look these days there are things telling you how important it is to get away from everyday life, to lift your head up and take a step back from the grind. Escaping the
There’s a trend surrounding us at the moment, it’s been here for five or six years; somebody starts a band – they have a drummer, guitar, bass, someone on keys, hair from a magazine and
Tonight’s support, All We Are, only take up a little bit of the stage but they make a decent noise with solid beats and basslines tramping along underneath layers of guitar melodies lashed with button-pushy,
‘Birds with Broken Wings’ is the second album release from Canadian songster and beard wielder, Ben Caplan. It has been four years since his first release, ‘In the Time of the Great Remembering’, the majority
Bristol has a history of spawning bands with a message and with The Disfavoured Party it appears to have done it again. Spreading their views on a damaged society as they see it, through the
The promo material for Fold’s debut album makes a lot of the Leeds band’s similarity to Public Service Broadcasting (there is even a quote from one of the PSB lads in it somewhere) – and