EVEN THE STARS

Avalanche Party continued their much-postponed tour on Wednesday night at Manchester Yes to a small but enthusiastic crowd that were delight...

Lanterns On The Lake have released a new track Don't Have Nightmares taken from the BBC paranormal investigative series podcast Uncanny ...

Tonight's show is billed as an album launch for PINS' third album Hot Slick, released in May last year, and after a year's delay...

The Lucid Dream finally brought their The Deep End album to the Pink Room of Yes in their second home of Manchester on Saturday night for an...

Lanterns On The Lake continued their much-rearranged UK tour with a sold-out show at Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut on a wet and cold Fr...

Before revealing The Once Was Enough, the first track to be released from Cityscape The Ballet, Odd Morris had already made their mark ...

Sprints are the latest in the wave of Irish bands making their mark across the sea. Their first visit to Manchester sold out weeks in advanc...

Neon Waltz are celebrating the completion with a short UK tour that took in the basement of Yes in Manchester on Monday night. Focusing on t...

The latest release of One Hand Strikes The Other by arguably Manchester’s most promising singer-songwriter James Holt, sees him evolve and...

The latest in the series of gigs put on by Get Loud In Libraries saw Billy Nomates and Memes play a Sunday afternoon slot in Oldham Library ...

Neon Waltz head to Manchester tonight as part of their first tour since 2019 showcasing songs from their second album that they...

The hottest ticket in town on Saturday night was without doubt Wet Leg's sold out show at the Night And Day Cafe. With just two singles ...

Julia Bardo finished off her UK tour supporting her debut album Bauhaus L'Appartamento in the slightly surreal surroundings of the Alban...

John Bramwell brought his Full Harmonic Convergence to Manchester's Ritz for a long-awaited and oft-postponed gig to showcase their fort...

On a bitterly cold Wednesday evening in the North East of England we were left to the highly impressive Humanist to warm the cockles of our ...

VLURE have today released Heartbeat, their second single in quick succession to be taken from their Euphoria EP due in January. Another liv...

With their Manchester show clashing with other commitments we jumped on the train to Blackpool and the brilliant independent Bootleg Social ...

Francis Of Delirium played their first ever Manchester show at the Castle Hotel on Tuesday night. An energetic ten-song set featuring tracks...

Saint Agnes brought the opening night of their Vampire 21 tour to Manchester's Deaf Institute on Sunday night supported by Sit Down and ...

Lanterns On The Lake made their long-awaited return to Manchester for their biggest headline show in the city to date at their much-delayed ...

Extreme Greed is the second single to be taken from Ist Ist's forthcoming second album The Art Of Lying. Released digitally and on a l...

  The start of our Thursday night gig-going saw us in the Pink Room of Yes to capture The Red Stains and wych elm, two of our favourite new ...

Egyptian Blue return with a new single Salt, their first since last year's Body Of Itch EP, and the first taster from their debut album ...

Wednesday night saw a packed out Music Room of The Castle Hotel in Manchester reverberate to the sound of The Lounge Society, a band at the ...

Inhaler completed their sold-out UK tour in support of their number one album It Won't Always Be Like This at The Ritz in Manchester on ...

Sheffield's Before Breakfast, aka Lucy and Gina, release their new single I'm A Good Friend today, the latest track to be taken from...

John Bramwell continued his never-ending tour of the UK with his first show in Edinburgh for four years at the splendid Old Dr Bells Baths a...

Thousand Yard Stare continue one of the most unlikely nineties reunions with their new single Upping Sticks, their first new material sinc...

CHERYM are a three-piece from Derry who describe themselves as “three basic bitches” yet there’s nothing basic about this second EP al...

talker, aka Celeste Taucher, releases Sad Chick, her first solo release since last year's Wax EP. As ever talker isn't afraid to wri...

The Magic Numbers belatedly celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of their self-titled debut album with a show at Manchester Academy 2 on Tue...

Dublin's Odd Morris today release their new single Silhouette, the second track to be revealed from their forthcoming Citysca...

Hannah Ashcroft was a familiar face on the Manchester gig scene pre-COVID and she announced her return with a new single Shadow. We caught u...

Liverpool's Sound City festival returned after a year's absence with a belated 2021 three-day weekend event. We travelled across fro...

The Slow Readers Club continued their UK tour with their nearest-to-hometown show at Warrington Parr Hall on Friday night supported by Birmi...

Geneva continue their unexpected comeback with a second single Memory Wars to follow up last year's Fault Lines.

The Joy Of The Return was the title of The Slow Readers Club's fourth album that went top ten just as we entered lockdown. As...

Elbow opened the first of their trio of intimate (by their standards) hometown shows with a triumphant set of tracks taken from their mid- a...

The Slow Readers Club's long-delayed tour continued with a show at Liverpool's O2 Academy on Monday night supported by Sheffield...

James concluded their 2021 festival season with an eighty-minute set at Glasgow's Playground Festival that mixed most of their biggest a...

wych elm's EP Rabbit Wench clocks in at fourteen minutes across seven songs, a statement of intent and what the band are about, very sho...

The Red Stains return with their third single Smile!, a caustic biting retort at those who tell women to smile set to the musical chaos we...

Two songs in and Paul Heaton thanks us for a number of things, being careful, being patient after the multiple reschedulings of this show, f...

Half an hour before Ash were due on the stage at the Ritz, we were stood in the Night And Day waiting for Tim Burgess to turn up. Bored and ...

John Bramwell made the short trip across the Pennines to the historic Leadmill venue in Sheffield for the latest in his series of shows to p...

Proletariat released their new single Losing Control Is A Beautiful Thing on Friday, a marked change from their previous output yet unmist...

A Monday night in Manchester is often a sedate affair, but heading down to the basement of Yes for the Liverpool double-header of Stone and ...

Wainsgate Chapel sits on top of the hills overlooking Hebden Bridge and each year runs a small programme of live music to audiences of up to...

The Slow Readers Club made a triumphant return to Hebden Bridge Trades Club on Sunday night for their first headline show since February 202...