Liverpool Sound City 2012: The Bands & Beyond
The modern-day festival is about a lot more than the bands. Does Sound City measure up? Speak to anyone ‘in the know’ and running a music festival is the hardest game in the...
Crazy like a Fox
Rebekka O’Grady reports back on an evening spent at The Kazimier chock-full of pleasant surprises… On entering The Kazimier, a venue until now I had never set foot in, I was most pleasantly...
Record Store Day
Tomorrow is the one day of the year when we are all beyond reproach for going back for ‘just one more piece of vinyl.’ Let’s make the most of it… In an era...
Sea of Bees – Reviewed
Matt Longworth is all a-buzz about the recent Sea of Bees visit to Liverpool… Ivan Campo seem to go unnoticed as they set up, unpretentiously fumbling with wires in the low light and...
The Sinking of the Titanic
José Carlos Diaz experiences first hand the immersive qualities of versatile virtuosos The a.P.A.t.T Orchestra… This past weekend marked the centenary of the fatefully quiet night when the Titanic struck an iceberg. Calm swiftly...
Studio Series: Joe McNulty
This week we visit the workspace of musician, artist and illustrator Joe McNulty at Wolstenholme Studios… Please describe your space. It’s just a place where you can do anything; you can make noise; you’ve...
GIT Award Shortlist – Bang On?
With less than a month to go before the GIT Award has its first winner we take a look at the shortlist… We don’t mind telling you it was with a mixture of...
Spirit Animals – Previewed
Get down to Wolstenholme this evening for a typically eclectic arts and music mash-up. Here’s the low-down… If you’ve read about our current artist of the month, Sean Wars, maybe you feel you...
Los Campesinos! – Previewed
Paul Forster on a band deftly sidestepping growing pains and tentatively embracing maturity… It is widely believed the idea of selling out died when Kim Gordon modelled for GAP, but the indie-rock world...