EVEN THE STARS

There's a huge buzz in Manchester around Puppet Rebellion .  On the eve of the release of their second EP No Means Yes, we met with f...

NO  -  El Prado ( Arts And Crafts ) CD / Download / Vinyl (released April)   Released 18th February   It seems a long time si...

Reverend And The Makers -  Thirty Two ( Cooking Vinyl ) CD / Vinyl / Download / Pledge Due out 24th February Reverend And The Maker...

Findlay Manchester Band On The Wall 7th February 2014 Findlay returns back home to Manchester and charms a packed Band On The Wall. ...

High Hazels / The Orielles Sheffield Shakespeare 28th December 2013 It's been quite a year for new Sheffield band High Hazels, r...

The Slow Readers Club Heaton Chapel Blue Cat Cafe 22nd December 2013 Sometimes there's a band that you look at and listen to and...

Since the last hurrah of The Bluetones in September 2011, Mark Morriss has been ploughing a new career as a solo artist.  His second albu...

Candy Says / The Lottery Winners Manchester Fallow Café 24th October 2013 Candy Says came to Manchester for the final night of thei...

Etches Manchester Gullivers 3rd October 2013 It's no mean feat to get the first song you put out in the public domain played by ...

Black Casino And The Ghost -  Some Dogs Think Their Name Is No ( Lucky Machete) Download / CD Out Now Black Casino And The Ghost are...

Badly Drawn Boy Manchester Deaf Institute 6th September 2013 This sold-out show at the Deaf Institute in Manchester is Badly Drawn B...

Littlemores Home Sweet Home EP Self-released Download  / CD It's been almost two years since Littlemores released their Idle I...

Catfish And The Bottlemen / Puppet Rebellion / The Slow Readers Club Manchester FAC251 (This Feeling Club Night) 31st August 2013 ...

The Lottery Winners Manchester Academy 3 10th August 2013 The North West has a reputation for producing dark, dour, spiky music with...

Ryan Jarvis Manchester The Castle 2nd August 2013 So many singer-songwriters get tagged with the next big thing albatross as record ...

Nadine Shah / Retriever London The Lexington 22nd July 2013 Nadine Shah launched her incredible debut album Love Your Dum And Mad w...

Candy Says is a lo-fi chic pop DIY band from Oxford. They record their unique brand of home-made pop in a bungalow garage with a couple ...

James / Echo And The Bunnymen Wakestock Festival 13th July 2013 A wakeboarding festival in the middle of Wales with a predominantly...

Embers   London Sebright Arms   9th July 2013   Tonight is Embers' debut headline show and also their debut London show.  ...

NO London Sebright Arms 3rd July 2013 NO are a six-piece band from Los Angeles. They concluded a short UK tour, including a PIL supp...

Emily Barker And The Red Clay Halo Dear River CD / 2CD / Download Linn Records Out 8th July (vinyl version out October) Dear Riv...

John Bramwell Hebden Bridge Trades Club 27th June 2013 John Bramwell played an intimate rare solo gig at Hebden Bridge Trades Club. ...

Patti Smith London Shepherd's Bush Empire 18th June 2013  Patti Smith has returned to the UK for a short tour ahead of her music...

Section 25 / Pony And Trap Leeds Cockpit 15th June 2013 Live appearances by Section 25 seem to be getting less frequent.  We crosse...

Sara Lowes All For The Dream (With The Means Of A Well Planned Getaway) Red Deer Club DL/CD Out Now It's felt like a lifetim...

MONEY Hebden Bridge Trades Club 14th June 2013 There's been a big buzz about MONEY for a while.  They've recently signed to ...

James / Frazer King   Thetford Forest High Lodge 13th June 2013 James opened up The Forestry Commission's 2013 series of events...

Queens Of The Stone Age London Rough Trade East 1 1th June 2013 Considering Queens Of The Stone Age can fill venues twenty times the...

Kiran Leonard   London The Lexington 10th June 2013 In the corridors of the internet where the wise sages of music chatter away ther...

PINS / Brown Brogues London The Lexington 6th June 2013 PINS defy the Manchester stereotype of boys with guitars and prove themselv...

Miles Kane London Rough Trade East 5th June 2013 Miles Kane's second solo album Don't Forget Who You Are is released this we...

Emily Barker And The Red Clay Halo   are about to release their fourth album Dear River on 8 July.  We met up with Emily before their rece...

The Minx Manchester Soup Kitchen June 1st 2013 The Minx came to my attention on their recent support slot with Inspiral Carpets in Mar...

Jess Harwood I'll Find A Way EP DL / CD Out Now Self-released via Bandcamp Jess Harwood is a twenty-year old singer-songwriter...

The Gramotones Manchester Pretty Green 26th May 2013 There's a growing buzz about The Gramotones, built upon a growing reputation ...

Little Sparrow Chorlton Nook And Cranny May 25th 2013 Little Sparrow’s headline set as part of the Chorlton Arts Festival was schedule...

Dot To Dot is a one-day festival across three UK cities on consecutive days. It's a multi-venue festival where one wristband gets you ac...

The National - Trouble Will Find Me ( 4AD )  CD / LP / DL  Out Now 9.5 / 10 You sense that Trouble Will Find Me is a direct reactio...

The Great Escape is a three-day festival spread across thirty of Brighton’s finest small and medium sized venues attracting hundreds of acts...

She And Him  - Volume 3 ( Domino Recordings ) CD / DL / LP Out Now 7.5/10 Easily dismissed as the doe-eyed star of cheesy TV and chi...

The Great Escape is a three-day festival spread across thirty of Brighton’s finest small and medium sized venues attracting hundreds of acts...

The Great Escape is a three-day festival spread across thirty of Brighton's finest small and medium sized venues attracting hundreds of ...

Liam Frost / Hannah And Lois Manchester International Anthony Burgess Foundation Saturday May 11th 2013 It’s been two and a half year...

The Tapestry / The Delaplains / The Watchmakers Manchester Band On The Wall 10th May 2013 Three of the most exciting up-and-coming b...

The first release on the resurrected Playtime Records is Another Time 1989-1994, a compilation of singles, outtakes and unreleased tracks b...

James Manchester Evening News Arena 26th April 2013 James completed a sold-out ten date tour of the UK with a show at Manchester’s MEN...

Ryan Jarvis’s debut EP Outside This Town demonstrates a song-writing ability beyond his eighteen years and the potential to follow in the lo...

James Stirling Tolbooth 12th April 2013 James make a low-key but triumphant return to the live stage, debuting four new songs, throwi...

The Minx are an exciting new five-piece band from Manchester.  They released debut single No Friends in July last year and have just finish...

There’s been a trend in recent years for bands from the 1980s and 1990s to reform, but Playtime Records are taking things a step further by...

Liam Frost burst onto the music scene with his debut album Show Me How The Spectres Dance in 2006 and followed it with We Ain’t Got No Money...

Spaceheads are a drum and trumpet duo featuring Richard Harrison and Andy Diagram and are releasing their new EP Sun Radar next week. David ...

Emma Stevens’ 2 nd EP Dreaming Trees may just be the perfect antidote to our freezing weather, X Factor culture and the doom and gloom tha...

John Mackie Manchester Black Dog Ballroom 31st March 2013 John Mackie has been around the Manchester music scene for what seems like f...

Rae Morris London Village Underground 27 th March 2013 Blackpool singer-songwriter Rae Morris is slowly but surely building a dedicat...

The House Of Love - She Paints Words In Red Cherry Red Records Out Now 8.5/10 The House Of Love make a triumphant return as the leg...

Suede London Rough Trade East 22nd March 2013 Suede continue their triumphant return with an intimate in-store performance in East Lon...

David Ford / Emily Grove / Jarrod Dickenson Manchester Deaf Institute 24th March 2013 For this tour supporting the release of his new...

David Ford   Charge CD / Vinyl (with CD) / Download  Released March 18 th 2013  9.5/10  Charge is David Ford’s fourth solo studio...

Inspiral Carpets are currently on tour performing their debut album Life, with additional songs from their back catalogue and two new songs....

Comic Relief.  Mainstream TV to raise money for those causes that our government should be funding rather than tax cuts for their Millionair...

Inspiral Carpets / Danny Mahon Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut Friday March 15th 2013 Inspiral Carpets are back on the road celebr...

"If there was ever a band to fall instantly in love with, it is Manchester quartet The Tapestry" was how John Robb described the f...

David Ford is a singer-songwriter from the South Coast, about to release his fourth solo studio album, Charge.  We met up with David on the...

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Specter At The Feast CD / LP / Download Abstract Dragon Records 7.5 / 10 Twelve years since their debu...

Wendy and Lisa – Wendy And Lisa  Cherry Red Records CD  9/10 Released - 25th March 2013 Confession time, the teenager in me’s ear...

Delay Trees - Doze CD / DL Soliti   Out Now 8.5/10 Delay Trees hail from Finland and have released Daze, their follow-up to the...

Caitlin Rose is a 25 year old singer-songwriter from Nashville , Tennessee, via Dallas.  She’s just released her second album The Stand In a...

The Courteeners / The Tapestry Cambridge Junction 5th March 2013 The Courteeners are a funny bunch. Very obviously Mancunian, they hav...

Jesca Hoop is a Californian singer, currently based in Manchester, England.  Fresh from releasing The House That Jack Built in June 2012 an...

Caitlin Rose Manchester Ruby Lounge Friday 1st March 2013 Caitlin Rose released her second album The Stand In last week.  We caught up...

Rae Morris is a talented young singer-songwriter from Blackpool, who releases her third EP “From Above” on March 25th.  She took time out f...

Literature Thieves are a three-piece band that recently released their debut EP “Moon Stories From The Glass Mountain” on Manchester’s innov...

David Brown interviews Vinny Cassidy - founder member of Section 25. He talks about the past and the future of the band and what making the ...

Section 25 - Dark Light ( Factory Benelux )   CD/DL  Released 25th February 2013 9/10 Anthony H Wilson 2007 - “Those clever bastard...

Paperfangs who've just released a new album, Past Perfect. We spoke to them to find out more about their background and inspirations.   ...

I Am Kloot, Jesca Hoop  Barbican, London  19th Feb 2013 On the back of their first top-ten album “Let It All In”, I Am Kloot have emba...

Palma Violets '180' ( Rough Trade ) LP/CD/DL Released 25th February 2013   It’s quite a heady accolade to be named Best Son...

Milo Greene are a five-piece from California. They released their debut self-titled album on Fierce Panda in January.  We met Robbie, Marlan...

Nick Cave  London Her Majesty's Theatre  Feb 10th 2013  This gig was the first in a whirlwind tour of unusual venues around the wo...

Following the much-delayed release of their career spanning boxset The Gathering Sound, Larry Gott, guitarist with the band James, met us in...

The History of Apple Pie-Out of View ( Marshall Teller Records )  DL/CD/LP  Out 28th Jan 2013 Four singles into their career, The Hist...

Rebekka Karijord The Borderline,  London January 16th, 2013 Rebekka Karijord takes a break from the Norwegian winter to play her fir...

I Am Kloot - Let It All In (Shepherd Moon)  DL/CD/LP  Out 21st Jan 2013 Let's get this out of the way before we start. The cliches...

Elbow   The O2, London  Sunday, December 2nd, 2012 It's the final night of their tour before they go off for a well-earned year...

Danny Mahon, Manchester singer-songwriter, recently went out on tour with Reverend And The Makers .  Described by the Reverend as 'Danny...

I Am Kloot Preston 53 Degrees 8 th November 2012 Kloot have chosen to unveil their new album Let It All In, due in January, with a s...

Frazer King are an exciting six-piece band from Wythenshawe, Manchester. They are about to release a limited edition 300 only cassette mixta...

Michele Stodart, bass player with The Magic Numbers, released her debut solo album, Wide Eyed Crossing, last week on her own label Keepsake ...

Reverend and the Makers have had a successful year in 2012. They came back after a three year hiatus with the album @Reverend_Makers, which ...

Goy Boy McIlroy: Black Glove / The Pilgrim ( Self Released )  DL  Out Now Goy Boy McIlroy are a very talented blues come rock band fro...

This Saturday, 8 September, Richard Hawley performs a selection of tracks from across his career with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the...

Destiny Calling: Twenty Years Living with James  Author: John Ormond  Publisher: York Books This soon to be released book about the Ma...

Jess Bryant: Silvern ( Red Deer Club Records )  DL/LP  Out Now  Jess Bryant 's debut album Silvern is destined to go down as a hid...

The Reads are a North-West based six piece featuring Stuart Bennett (Lead vocal, rhythm guitar), Jamie Russell (Lead guitar, harmonica, bac...

Savages London Hoxton Bar And Kitchen 7th June 2012 Best New Band in the UK is a tag that's been thrown around lightly...

Modern Alarms - You Must've Known EP DL  Available now This debut release from Modern Alarms backs up the hype that's been bu...

Milagres  The Deaf Institute, Manchester We spoke with New York band Milagres at the Deaf Institute in Manchester ahead of their show i...

Inspiral Carpets  Norwich Waterfront  20 th May 2012 It’s rather fitting to review the last gig of the first phase of the ...

Stefan Melbourne is a singer-songwriter from Holmfirth, now resident in Manchester and has just self-released his debut EP “Before The Sun ...