EVEN THE STARS

Keep Me Going (All Night) is the debut single from Manchester four-piece Hates Talking. Fronted by Sam Carson, formerly of Lunar, ...

To many people the Night And Day Cafe is a second home. For Stephen Fretwell. For us at Even The Stars. It's fitting that this is the pl...

Day two of Bolton's new Right To Roam festival saw an outdoor stage in the town centre as well as at the Octagon, Alma and Vaults. We ca...

Right To Roam is a new two-day festival around a number of venues in Bolton town centre, part of an ambition plan of local music lovers and ...

John Bramwell concluded his Hebden Bridge Trades Club residency with the third sold-out night of the run of socially-distanced shows accompa...

A sunny Manchester mid-afternoon felt like a perfect introduction to Julia Bardo's forthcoming Bauhaus L'Appartamento album as she p...

One of the highlights of the Manchester International Festival for us is the free series of live performances that take place across the cit...

It’s easy to lose yourself in the songs of Dublin four piece Odd Morris. New track The Once Was Enough, a taster from their forthcoming EP...

The Seahorses, Dodgy and The Bluetones were three of the more recognisable names in the mid 1990s Britpop explosion and these days their fro...

Little Sparrow's new single Alone, taken from her forthcoming second album Feather Moon, continues the more dramatic path her music has ...

Whilst festivals are being cancelled around our ears, Manchester's After All Festival continued in a socially distanced format on Thursd...

Manchester-based musician and songwriter Jake Hardman's debut album is the joyous sound of an open-minded individual who appears to ha...

"Where's Fretwell?" has been a catchphrase in the corners of the internet that remembered the unique charms of the ...

With their forthcoming July dates falling victim to the latest extension of UK restrictions that seem to apply to music and other arts ...

SKIES return with It's Not The End Of The World, the first product of a series of songs they recorded when they shut themselves aw...

 John Bramwell brought his socially-distanced tour to the familiar surroundings of the Rose And Monkey's beer garden on Sunday afternoon...

VLURE completed their short tour of England with another sold-out socially-distanced gig in the Pink Room of Yes in Manchester. Once again t...

The Red Stains made their much-anticipated return to the live stage with their first show in eighteen months at a socially-distanced sold-ou...

Birkenhead witnessed VLURE's first live show since last spring; a euphoric emotional return to the stage - a band emerging from the coco...

Thank you Shame! Tonight we were made to feel alive again. Bringing a mate to his first gig in fifteen months was always going to be emotion...

As they approach forty years as a band James are still going strong, selling more gig tickets than at any time in their history an...

Sligo-based Some Remain are the latest outfit creating waves across the Irish Sea. The alternative four piece mix rawness and high energy ...

Live music. The buzz, the thud of the bass drum that mirrors your heartbeat, faster and faster as the energy in the room rises and the adren...

The Slow Readers Club's SoundON session was a homecoming of sorts, returning to the Derby Hall in Bury Met, which also hosts the Edwin S...

Not content with his roles as a living legend, a figurehead of Manchester's music scene and the creative industries guru in residence fo...

The Lovegods were back between 2003 and 2006 one of the most exciting new bands in the country, building a strong dedicated following unti...

Live music returned at the weekend with Blossoms headlining a 5,000 capacity tent in Sefton Park in Liverpool alongside local heroine Zuzu a...

James today release Recover, the third single to be taken from their forthcoming album All The Colours Of You, a deeply personal track that ...

Rosellas celebrated the midnight release of their latest single Common Ground with a live stream set from Manchester's Spirit Stu...

Rewind to last year and a packed Golden Lion in Todmorden. An ecstatic audience witnessed Carlisle's The Lucid Dream deliver a...

Beautiful Beaches is the lead single and second track to be revealed from James' forthcoming album All The Colours Of You, due for rel...

Stephen Fretwell continues his long-awaited return with the second track Embankment and the announcement of his first album in thirteen ye...

 "Manchester Royalty" was how presenter Abi McCarthy described The Slow Readers Club ahead of the interview that preceded this liv...

Substitute is Manchester singer / songwriter's Minerva Daisy's first single of 2021, a reflective look back on lessons learnt from a...

Last Friday Gold Baby released their debut EP Rabbits after a series of nine singles that preceded it. We caught up with Siân, Sar...

Alright In The End is the debut single from Wolverhampton singer-songwriter Natasha Nicole. A song that helped her to fight her own ...

It's very strange to see the familiar stage at Gorilla, the illuminated bar and toilet signs stage left, and not be in the middle of...

“How else do you honour and thank an artist? But with the art itself.” That’s a bold statement from David Balfe aka For Those I Lo...

Nine singles into their existence, Gold Baby have taken the plunge with their debut EP Rabbits. Across four tracks they demonstrate a knac...

Hailing from Galway the Irish quartet Slyrydes are back with a bang with new single Boy In The Debs Suit, a year after releasing five enthra...

Without having released a single in the traditional sense VLURE had already made their presence felt with a live performance video of Desire...

James return with the title track of their forthcoming studio album All The Colours Of You - a topical view of the world written in t...

#WheresFretwell became an internet question that noone could answer for a decade as Stephen Fretwell disappeared completely from the music s...

Proletariat's comeback last year came as a bit of a surprise after they bowed out after a series of sold-out Manchester shows you...

There's two kinds of reformation - the big cash-in on the legacy and nostalgia culture that seems to be polluting the pool for new artis...

Live music. Remember that? The thrill and excitement and adrenaline as the drums kick in, guitars roar and the bassline rumbles seductively ...

Dulcimer Melody's debut album Dark Alchemy was one of our favourite random finds of 2020, following an effusive championing of...

Matter Of Mind's first single of 2021 demonstrates a harder edge and a vitriolic biting response to an ex who's done them wrong as t...

Rang Dizzy is the first track to be revealed from Ryley Walker's forthcoming album Course In Fable, his first studio album of origi...

Sometimes the only PR that can sell you an album is the music itself. We were listening to something sent to us in one of the hundred or so ...