Sunday 23 April 2017

Palace - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds, April 6th 2017 (LIVE REVIEW & INTERVIEW)


With their debut album ‘So Long Forever’ (Fiction Records) deservedly garnering its fair share of critical praise, it seems the initial hype surrounding Palace is beginning to feel vindicated. Having first tripped over the dreamy languid splendour of ‘Kiloran’ a couple of years ago, the richly textured expanses of their first long player proves they are no flash in the pan...

Wednesday 19 April 2017

Live At Leeds 2017 (PREVIEW)



Can it really be a decade since this unique metropolitan festival burst onto the West Yorkshire live music scene, creating a slew of imitators all over the world? Now in its 11th renewal, Live At Leeds has grown into a local institution, firmly established on the live music calendar, with this year promising to be the biggest and best of all, boasting over 100 varied acts to choose from, a carefully curated blend of local, national and international musicians meaning there is more than something for everyone. 

Friday 14 April 2017

Physics House Band 'Mercury Fountain' (mini-album review)


"..Things get positively intergalactic on ‘A Thousand Small Spaces’ as you drift across the universe before being rudely awakened by ‘Obidant’, a Tasmanian Devil of a tune boasting more time changes than a Southern Railway timetable during a strike.."


Thursday 6 April 2017

Brooke Bentham - Howard Assembly Room, Leeds. March 31st 2017 (LIVE REVIEW)


"...Bentham’s rich voice suddenly fills the inviting space within the Howard Assembly Rooms with ease for the elegiac opener, ‘We’ll Be Ghosts’; the first of only half a dozen songs in a short set finishing with a lo-fi version of ‘Ephemeral’..."



Wednesday 5 April 2017

Idles - Wakefield, Unity Works. March 31st 2017 (LIVE REVIEW)



"...Don't be fooled by the wit and hijinks that pour freely from this band however, they have a hell of a lot to say about our current state of affairs and Talbot rightly so, is mad as hell..."