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Review: Takedown Festival 2013
Takedown Festival 2013 was a monumental event, perhaps overlooked by outsiders and hosts a musical subculture that is eternally misunderstood. I went this year for an education and to reach new musical comfort zones as much as to review. I am not a metal fan, my knowledge of the metal subculture is very limited , I [...]
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Takedown Festival 2013 was a monumental event, perhaps overlooked by outsiders and hosts a musical subculture that is eternally misunderstood. I went this year for an education and to reach new musical comfort zones as much as to review. I am not a metal fan, my knowledge of the metal subculture is very limited , I [...]
We have a pair of tickets to see Public Service Broadcasting on the latest leg of their tour which visits Southampton Roxx tomorrow (Monday 20 May 2013). Public Service Broadcasting sample old public information films and archive material and set them to new music. Live, the films are screened simultaneously as laptops are fiddled with, [...]
Featuring 10 fields of wonderment and 20 stages filled with amazing music, insane sideshows and magical happenings, Bestival’s spectacular 10th birthday bash this September 5th-8th is set to be nothing short of EPIC. Celebrating those 10 years for all they’re worth, we’ve already got a musical line-up that’s second to none, with headline appearances from [...]
Andy Farley looks ahead to this weekends Great Escape Festival in Brighton: I’m pretty stoked to be attending this year’s Great Escape Festival. It’s the first time I’ve been living in Brighton since the festival started – and I have to say the city is jumping. But then a lot has changed since I last lived here [...]
Electro-punk MC Itch will be giving Brighton a taster of his hard-hitting, beats fuelled sound at this year’s Great Escape Festival. Performing two shows on Saturday 18th May, this will be Itch’s first solo outing at the festival since the split of his former band The King Blues. Itch’s first show will be at Above [...]
Legendary protest singer Billy Bragg recently asked Southampton singer-songwriter, Seán McGowan, to join him as main support for his headline show at The Dome which takes place at The Great Escape festival next Friday (17th May). Courtesy Chris Meany Seán, who’s one-off forthcoming full band show at The Joiners on 7th June sold out in [...]
Five years ago Dead!Dead!Dead! were probably the biggest and best unsigned act in Southampton. Well, not probably….definitely. They supported the likes of Arctic Monkeys and toured with Mumm-ra. Band of Skulls (then Fleeing New York) would regularly support D!x3. Unfortunately, as happens so many times when bands are on the verge of something big, they [...]
Ian Canty & Ged Babey preview Perennial Punk Pop favourites…. “Why Should I Go And See The Buzzcocks Dad?” Well for a start its Buzzcocks Sonny, no “The” but since you asked so politely I’ve got a few reasons for you…. Well for a start you will be seeing one of the best bands that has ever [...]
Having recently opened up for this year’s NME Awards Tour, and released their début album In Love, which reached number 16 in the UK album chart, Birmingham based quartet Peace have earned a huge amount of hype surrounding them, and last night they were welcomed to the Portsmouth Wedgewood rooms by an audience of 500, most of [...]
The festival hopping ska-rap-punk band, Imperial Leisure, top the bill on first night of Pulse Festival which kicks off this evening on the outskirts of Southampton. Rob Ball Gates open at 4pm this afternoon (10th May) for the 2 day festival which for the first time is allowing campers to pitch their tents. Also playing [...]
Arrows of Love have set June 3rd as the release date for their new single ‘The Knife’ via Urban Fox Records. The Hackney 4-piece have also announced a full UK tour starting on April 25th that will see their incendiary live show explode in 12 cities before they visit Europe for shows and festivals. Produced [...]
There was promise of an announcement recently on the Facebook page of 19 year old Charley Macaulay, aspiring female soul singer from Southampton. There was speculation what such a prestigious announcement could be? It turns out the determined diva has only gone and got herself signed to ‘Acid Jazz records’, the same legendary record label [...]
The Great Escape, taking place May 16th-18th, recently announced a further 100 artists to complete the 2013 line-up. The programme is fit to burst with over 350 of the best upcoming bands currently making noise across the world, and TGE13 is getting ready to load in to 30+ Brighton venues and kick start the eighth [...]
In the run up to Blissfields 2013, The Road to Blissfields landed in Winchester on Sunday night (5th May, 2013). As four local bands battled it out for a place at the festival, there was tough competition as they fought for the spot. Jonny Dare First up were KIN. Delivering enough noise to blow the [...]
Bestival organiser and Radio One DJ Rob da Bank was today announced as an ambassador for Southampton and Portsmouth’s joint City of Culture bid. The rival cities have joined forces for the bid to become 2017’s UK City of Culture. The bid, (which was formally submitted yesterday, 30th April), if successful, will benefit residents, visitors [...]
The festival season is just around the corner and for those in south of England (and those who aren’t!) then Pulse Festival is one that should be top of everybody’s list. It’s an old cliché when they say there’s something for everybody here – but at Pulse, which is based at Sunnyfields Farm on the outskirts of [...]
Mercury Music Prize winners Alt-J will be in Southampton this Friday (26 April) when they perform a DJ Set at Roxx. The catchy electronic heavy synth riffs, trip-hop atmosphere and indie-rock quirkiness combine with intimately personal lyrics to create some of the most groundbreaking, interesting and incredibly pleasant material to come out of the UK in [...]
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