Dale Davies
review: The Subways live at The Old Firestation
Let’s look back to 2005, when a bright young energetic band called The Subways hit the airwaves, releasing their breakthrough album ‘Young For Eternity’ to the masses. With their charismatic charm they brought out a collection of feel good anthems with songs such as; ‘Oh Yeah’, ‘Rock and Roll Queen’ & ‘With You’ making playlists across the [...]
Review: Takedown Twenty Twelve
With the sun shining down from the sky, the fond festival memories of previous summers come flooding back helping create anticipation for this years festivities. With the festival season fast approaching what better way to get in the sprit than an all day event dedicated to everything rock/pop/punk & metal as Southampton University puts down [...]
review: SMILE week – Freeze The Atlantic at The Soul Cellar
Its Sunday night at the Cellar ahead of SMILE week, Southampton Solent Universities weeklong event showcasing bands and music industry Talks across venues in the city. As a taster of what’s to come, ‘Freeze The Atlantic’ headlined a night of up and coming rock bands in the region. First on were Satellites an alternative rock four piece [...]
review: Kerrang tour at Southampton Guildhall
Kerrang rolled their annual carnival of chaos into Southampton to bring a diverse line up featuring; up and coming British post-hardcore band While She Sleeps, off the chain LA hardcore punks Letlive, Welsh rockers The Blackout & pop puck gods New Found Glory. I sadly missed Sheffield based bruisers While She Sleeps but I’ve been informed the [...]
interview: Four Year Strong
Four Year Strong have been making waves in the pop punk scene for last decade, having formed in 2001. Since then they’ve gone from supporting acts such as New Found Glory and Good Charlotte to becoming a well established headlining act in their own right. They recently released their third full length album In Some Way, Shape [...]
interview: Rob Damiani & Matt Donnelly from Don Broco
Don Broco are a four piece pop punk band based in Bedford. Formed after going to university they decided to take music seriously and over the last couple of years they have been touring up and down the country playing with bands such as We Are The Ocean and Enter Shikari. They’ve received support from [...]
Fly, Frankie, Fly to head out on tour
Over the last couple of years Southampton based electro rave superstars Fly,Frankie,Fly have been crafting a reputation for themselves. Having been described as ‘kind of indescribable’ by Rob da Bank, they’re a band that defies regular convention. Fusing multiple styles together to create a unique blend of electronic, rave, dub step and drum & bass. [...]
review: Four Year Strong & Don Broco at The Wedgewood Rooms
Over the last few years Four Year Strong have been crafting a reputation for themselves with their high energy levels and impassioned vocal interaction; inspiring an audience of millions worldwide. After releasing their third album ‘in some way, shape or form’, they head back to our shores on their biggest UK headline tour to date. [...]
Review: Against Me! and Crazy Arm at The Talking Heads
Closing Southampton’s premier punk themed festival WTFEST, the audience turned up in great anticipation for Against Me! Florida’s finest punk rock outfit. We find the band in the middle of an extensive European headlining tour and main support for Frank Turner on his latest UK Tour. The band are no strangers to supporting big acts [...]
Review: Brigade at The Joiners
It felt weird to be heading to the last ever tour of Brigade tonight, especially as the band still have the best years ahead of them. But saying that assurances early on were made that this wasn’t the end of the band completely. Brigade will continue to play live and make music but on a [...]
Minterview: Benjamin Francis Leftwich
On his recent visit to Southampton, Dale Davies met up with Benjamin Francis Leftwich, before he took to the stage at The Talking Heads (read the review here). MS: So you’re currently on a mammoth Tour across the UK, when it was announced did you ever feel daunted by the prospect of playing so many [...]
review: Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Benjamin Francis Leftwich is a man in demand, over the past year he’s managed to build up interest across the board with critical acclaim. He’s achieved regular airplay from Radio 1 and played over 20 festivals in the summer. With his début album ‘Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm’ breaking the Top 40 in the album chart he [...]
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