Few internationally successful bands make the effort to leave the standard British circuit to come down to Exeter, but The Subways did to play their first show of the year to celebrate Cavern’s 25th birthday. They came all the way down from Hertfordshire for the one-off special to play with support from “Exeter grunge monkeys” […]
Album Review: Jesu/ Sun Kil Moon
This is not a collaborative album, really. It’s just a guy reading excerpts from his diary while some other guy flicks though stations on a radio behind him. It is what ought to be expected when an American folk artist and a British doom-metal experimenter come together in confusing matrimony. Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil […]
“The loudest live band in Britain”: an interview with Youth Man
You recently had the first gig of your longest tour to date in Germany, how did it go? It was really good, it was cool. People weren’t necessarily expecting what they got, but they got into it. You played Cavern earlier this year. What did you think of it and what would make it better […]
Album Review: Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls
Iron Maiden Book of Souls 4 September 2015, Parlophone Four decades into an iconic and influential career, Iron Maiden release The Book of Souls, a 92 minute long, double-length epic. The Book of Souls is the 5th number one album to come from the one of the world’s most enduring metal groups. Coming five years after their last […]