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Live Review: Darwin Deez @ Thekla Bristol + Interview w/ Darwin Merwan Smith
On Wednesday 3rd of October, Darwin Deez took the stage at Bristol’s Thekla to perform their new album that came out late August entitled 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart. This being their fourth album it was interesting to see the journey they had made from their first album. […]
Thom Yorke, Mental Health & BBC 6 Music: An Interview with Zurich
Oxford is subtly nestled in Britain’s music scene, yet its homegrown acts include Radiohead, Foals and more recently, BBC Introducing act Zurich. I chatted to Chris and Adrian about the group’s influences, favourite fellow Oxford groups and how they added mental health into their song topics. I’ve read on your website that you describe your music as ‘widescreen […]
Album Review: Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
North London quartet Wolf Alice’s second LP Visions of a Life is released today, and is one of the year’s most anticipated alternative/indie releases after the huge success of debut My Love is Cool. With the new record’s predecessor making the ‘Best Albums of the Year’ lists in The Guardian, NME, Q and Rough Trade, […]
Does live music still matter?
We’ve all seen some kind of live music event. Be it Glastonbury Festival, a Coldplay concert, a group of buskers warbling covers of Ed Sheeran in the high street, or even just the Ram Jam on a Thursday night. Obviously some resonate with us as more impressive experiences than others, but often even the most […]
Headliners announced for Radio 1’s Big Weekend
Mumford & Sons, Coldplay and Ellie Goulding were among the acts announced for Radio 1’s Big Weekend, live on the air on Monday morning. The acts will assemble at Powderham Castle, near Exeter, for 28th-29th May, after many Exeter students will have finished their exams. The hotly anticipated announcement was made on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show […]
Album Review: Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams
Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams 4 December 2015, Parlophone/ Atlantic Jangling chimes, polyphonic rhythms and gentle guitar lines: I’d almost forgotten, during the first thirty seconds of A Head Full of Dreams, why I disliked Coldplay so much. Unfortunately, the limp croon of Chris Martin kicks in and I’m soon reminded. Arpeggiated rhythms on […]