To make things clear, playing to 50,000 people at Emirates Old Trafford is pretty impressive. Having performed at the enormous venue earlier this summer, The Courteeners’ frontman, Liam Fray, is now stripping things back a bit and going it solo for a sixteen-day acoustic tour. It’s no surprise that these shows were just as popular […]
Previews
Preview: VANT @ Exeter Cavern
Exeter’s best alternative and (literally) underground club, renowned for hosting killer club nights like Magic Hatstand and Saturday Indie Club, as well as being Exeter’s longest running live music venue, is adding another brilliant band to its history. Citing The Clash and Rage Against the Machine as their influences, London four-piece VANT bring together the […]
Isle of Wight Festival Preview: Setting the Scene for 2017
Visiting the Isle of Wight is almost like a step back in time. A sleepy island of vast, jaw-dropping beaches, country lanes posing as main roads, and the nostalgic smell of antiquity (or is that rotting seaweed?), it’s a funny little place that has the power to whisk you away from the hum-drum metropolises of […]
Les Eurockéenes de Belfort: Festival Preview
Les Eurockéenes de Belfort or, Les Eurocks, is a music festival in France, more precisely, in Belfort. The festival lasts four days, from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th of July, with a total of seventy different artists. Les Eurocks is one of the biggest French festivals; in October 2012, Les Eurockéenes de Belfort was nominated […]
Afropunk London 2017 Preview
Last year saw the massively popular arts festival Afropunk move from its regular hosts of Paris, New York and Atlanta to London, bringing a wave of culture to the UK in its two-day extravaganza. Now, the festival is steaming ahead towards ‘round two’ in London on the 22nd-23rd July, bringing a whole host of some of […]
BREAKING: Poltimore Festival Headliner Announced
Matthew and the Atlas That’s right, the crowning cherry on top of Exeter’s edgiest arts event has been confirmed. Indie-folk quintet Matthew and the Atlas will be gracing Poltimore House’s hallowed halls come May. Having just finished a sell-out European tour with Bear’s Den, Q Magazine has described the band as ‘the British Bon Iver’, […]
Preview: NME Awards Tour
The current British indie scene resembles something close to a barren musical wasteland of copycats, wannabe’s and has-beens. Only last week Leicester-based rockers Kasabian declared guitar music as ‘dead’. With the red-haired, corporate people pleaser Ed Sheeran standing aloft the charts and breaking records left, right and centre there has been little to no reaction […]
BREAKING: ExeFest Headliner Announced
Preparations for Exeter University’s first campus festival are well under way, but one question on is everyone’s lips. Which artists will have to clamber up Forum Hill to perform come June 4th? So, without further ado, the headliner is… example That’s right, the staple of UK dance, the one who dwells within every self-respecting gymnasium’s […]
Preview: Frank Turner @ Exeter Great Hall
Very few artists are as dedicated to their craft as the Hampshire troubadour. Having already conquered the likes of Wembley Arena, The O2 and Royal Albert Hall, you’d be inclined to question Frank Turner’s need to play venues in smaller cities like Exeter. After all, playing to a few hundred people in a University hall […]
Bestival 2016: Everything you need to know
The word ‘eclectic’ is often banded around whilst describing festivals and their lineups, however when it comes to Bestival, it couldn’t be more fitting. Taking place within the grounds of Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight, this weird and wonderful shindig, as curated by ex-BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank, sees […]