PLUS ONE MAGAZINE

Six years ago Real Estate were on a real upward curve as ‘Atlas’, their glorious third release came close to the US top 30, grabbing the indie blueprint by the scruff of the neck and running with it in a whole new direction so obvious, it seemed to have been hiding in plain sight. 

Anthemic and delicate, indie dreamers Lanterns on the Lake set out to calm the ripples of a world in turmoil on fourth album Spook the Herd. They're not wrong when they sing "we don't need a wall we need a bigger boat" and, having crept south from their Newcastle home to a studio in Yorkshire, the band knuckle down to build a vessel to keep us afloat even as the sea churns and the waves crash around them.

Austel has been gathering steam since well before the release of her spellbinding debut EP 'Unfold'. That record, founded on songs released during the course of 2018, knocked us sideways with its wistful electronica and heartfelt lyrics, and after boiling over with a couple of singles late last year she's back with one more, the beautiful 'Dry', before her second EP drops later this month. 

Outside, storm Ciara is starting to unleash her deluge but upon entering a full to bursting Warehouse, the wrath of the elements is unceremoniously being told to do one for the next 90 minutes. Yep, we’re talking a proper Yorkshire Saturday night rock and roll party with Bradford’s very own Terrorvision winding back the clock to their 1990s heyday, the venue positively bouncing as weskit clad Tony Wright and bandmates busy themselves in finishing the job of tearing the place a new one they started the night before.