English Teacher – 2024 Mercury Prize winners for their debut album ‘This Could Be Texas’, two sold-out nights at Camden’s iconic Roundhouse alongside many others on their headline tour, and yet, many people still mutter “who?” upon hearing their names….
As a photographer and reviewer, there’s a small but meaningful moment that always makes me smile on those occasions it happens: Arriving at the ticket office to collect my pass and finding that the band, their PR, or management have…
My dad had gone down the pub with his girlfriend, leaving me, my sister, and my brother rattling around the house like loose marbles. We were “home alone,” though we didn’t call it that back in 1975 – It was…
Despite the number of gigs I go to in Leeds it’s actually just about 37 years since I last set foot in The Warehouse. Back then, often under the influence of whatever was available in/around our damp two up two…
Last night, Manchester’s Academy 3 played host to a spectacle that defied genre, gravity, and good sense – And thank the metal gods for that. Evil Scarecrow, Nottingham’s finest (and possibly only) metal parody band to have penned an ode…
Melanie Pain, who with Phoebe Killdeer was lead singer with tonight’s headliners throughout their first half of dates on this tour, opens the evening’s entertainment as support artist with a sublime, stripped back set of songs taken mainly from her…
