EVEN THE STARS

The second night of The Murder Capital’s UK tour in support of their third album Blindness rolled into town on Good Friday with a show at Ma...

John Bramwell continued his never-ending solo travels around the UK with an intimate sold-out show at the Horse And Bamboo in Waterfoot on T...

It's been four years since we heard new music from Little Sparrow, but she's out of hibernation today with a brand new sin...

The Man From Delmonte's unexpected reunion continued apace on Saturday night with a sold-out show at Academy 2 in Manchester. Thirty-fiv...

slab celebrated the release of their debut album Taut with a packed out show in the basement of The Peer Hat in Manchester on Friday night d...

Divorce brought their sold-out tour in support of their debut album Drive To Goldenhammer to Manchester's Gorilla on Thursday night. Sup...

When Inspiral Carpets announced they were opening the year with some big gigs in Greece -  with bass supremo Martyn Walsh returning to the f...

Thus Love continued their relentless touring schedule with a packed out show at Salford's White Hotel on Saturday night with a set taken...

The hottest name in town, Westside Cowboy, took two sold-out nights at Gullivers in their stride as they played their biggest headline shows...

Ist Ist prepared for their upcoming European and UK tours with a sold-out packed warm-up show at The Ferret in Preston. Mixing songs from th...

Tom A Smith called in at Manchester's Night And Day Cafe on Wednesday night for the first of two shows on a short tour with Southampton...

As part of the campaign for the release this week of their seventh album Out Of A Dream, The Slow Readers Club headed to Headrow House in Le...

Whitehorse opened their debut UK tour with a ten-song set at a packed sold-out Rat And Pigeon in Manchester on Thursday night. Despite only ...

The Slow Readers Club release their seventh studio album Out Of A Dream today. The self-released album is one of their strongest bodies of...

When The Slow Readers Club debuted songs from their seventh long player at the tail end of last year, we were instantly excited for ...

Divorce celebrated the release of their debut album Drive To Goldenhammer with an intimate stripped-back Saturday evening performance in the...

When cult heroes The Man From Delmonte announced last year that they were reforming to play shows in Manchester and London, there was immedi...

With the imminent launch of their seventh album Out Of A Dream, The Slow Readers Club have taken to the campaign trail this weekend with a c...

Tim Burgess joined forces with Helen O'Hara and The RNCM Session Orchestra for a couple of special evenings in the RNCM's main theat...

It's thirty-five years since The Man From Delmonte departed the world without a single studio album to their name, but a trail of wonder...

The Murder Capital's release week trip around the UK's record stores in support of their third album Blindness continued on Monday n...

Ist Ist celebrated the tenth anniversary of their first ever show by returning to the very same stage they performed on that night for a car...

  It's that time to reveal our mostly unsurprising list of our top ten favourite albums of 2024

Déjà Vega finished off 2024 with a low-key headline show at Gullivers in Manchester on Saturday night. Over a ninety-five minute set they de...

LIINES made their long-awaited return to the stage on Thursday night with a sold-out co-headline show with Polish trio Trupa Trupa who were ...

Blossoms completed the most successful year of their career to date with a show at Diecast in Manchester sponsored by Spotify and B...

James provided fans with an exclusive preview of their Live At The Acropolis film recorded in Athens with the Manchester Inspirational Voice...

The Slow Readers Club returned to Glasgow for the first time since their triumphant Barrowland Ballroom gig (opening for Shed Seven) last au...

The Slow Readers Club's short Winter tour rolled into their hometown of Manchester on Thursday night for a sold-out months in advance sh...

It’s been a long time since we’ve been genuinely excited about the possibilities of a new band. COVID killed a lot of nascent bands stone de...

Sprints' rise in 2024 has seen them go from The White Hotel across the border in Salford to selling out New Century a couple of months i...

Blossoms concluded their five-night stand of Manchester venues they'd headlined previously in their career with a final sold-out show ...

Blossoms' five night stand of Manchester's mid-sized venues in support of their fourth number one album Gary. Performing tracks from...

“Four best friends playing The Paradiso” bassist Andy Keating tells the thousand and a half crowd in front of him half way through the set i...

John Bramwell And The Full Harmonic Convergence opened their UK tour in support of this year's The Light Fantastic album at Earth Theatr...

The Mercury-prize winning success of This Could Be Texas has catapulted English Teacher from the grassroots venues of which they are such ar...

Blossoms played their traditional album launch hometown show at Stockport's grand Plaza on Sunday. Performing both matinee and evening s...

Courteeners headed to Warrington on Thursday night for two intimate shows to support the launch of their Pink Cactus Cafe album. Mixing tr...

October Drift continued their UK tour in support of their third album Blame The Young by playing their biggest headline show to date at Manc...

This is Whitehorse's first ever gig. It's sold out The Rose And Monkey weeks in advance. At the helm of the new band is Thomas Haywo...

Back in the Summer, Manchester icons James and Johnny Marr joined forces for two UK festival shows - Bedford Summer Sessions and Lytham Fest...

MASH is a venue more often host to sticky-floored, student club nights or tribute bands, as per the promo posters plastered on its walls. Bu...

Lanterns On The Lake headlined the Friday night of Halifax's Town Festival in the resplendent setting of the Minster. Whilst vision was ...

The Slow Readers Club return with their first new material since last year's Knowledge Freedom Power album in the shape of Technofear....

Ist Ist opened their UK and European tour in support of their top 30 album Light A Bigger Fire with an intimate opening night sell out at He...

Tom Hingley launched his The Grand Mal album with an intimate set at The Castle Hotel in Manchester on Friday night. Performing the album in...

Ist Ist continued their launch week activities for their fourth studio album Light A Bigger Fire with an intimate out-store show in conjunct...

Trampolene frontman Jack Jones released his eponymous debut solo album on Friday. Julia Grantham took a listen and concludes that ...

Tom Hingley returns with his first new material since last year’s Decades album, delivering another beautifully heartfelt collection of song...

Venus Grrrls brought their UK tour to an end with a packed out show at Manchester's Soup on Saturday night supported by Macclesfield...