Blackpool’s Waterloo Music Bar has a way of turning an ordinary night into something mythical. Last night, as Dan Byrne rolled into town partway through his debut album launch tour, the place felt like it was vibrating with purpose. I…
Category: LIVE REVIEW
The Farm – Saturday 21st March Mountford Hall, Liverpool Guild of Students, Liverpool. I’ll be honest, I’d never even heard of Mountford Hall as a music venue before this (not being a Liverpudlian probably gets me off the hook a…
Committed to promoting independent music and culture and particularly brilliant at bringing to our attention bands that push boundaries, sounds that we might otherwise miss Louder Than War has, for over 15 years, been the website/social media place to head…
There’s a particular kind of hush that settles over a venue just before the opening act walks on. Not silence, because Mancs and the Ritz don’t do silence, but that low, curious murmur of a crowd still finding its feet,…
Walking into the Ritz last Wednesday, the space grabbed you more than anything else – Not the crowd, the stage, or even the bands, but the fact that the normally well populated balcony was closed off, reserved only for AAA…
The Deaf Institute’s ground floor Lodge Room has always felt like the kind of place where bands come to either find themselves or lose themselves. Sometimes both happen on the same night. The 100 capacity room seems intimate without being…