Brighton’s Lime Garden have been the subject of a reliable murmur of buzz for some time now. Releasing music together since 2020, the quartet have worked their way through the upstart bingo card and, having gathered sizeable support slots, festival sets and routine rotation at BBC 6 Music courtesy of…
Salford’s White Hotel is an unorthodox venue: a stripped-out mechanics garage with sparse white walls and a cold concrete floor, there are a couple of tyres hanging from the otherwise blank uprights. The first thing you notice is the headliner’s brand, with a huge banner depicting a Stella Artois-inspired logo…
London post-punkers TV Priest have been away for a while: their two Sub Pop released records went down well amongst enthusiasts of the genre, but the band were hampered by the pandemic, meaning they never got the chance to play their tunes to a live audience before the cuts were…
The Last Dinner Party are a band on a meteoric rise. Post-pandemic, they cut their teeth gigging around London, where their distinct style and sound earned them a cult following early doors. A major label deal followed, as did the superb debut single ‘Nothing Matters’. The band cut a distinct…
Where do you begin with a band like The Smile? They’re two-thirds Radiohead, one of the most sonically diverse and boundary-pushing bands of the last thirty years. The Smile trio is complete with the addition of Tom Skinner, jazz drummer extraordinaire: as we know from their 2022 debut A Light For…
London outfit Folly Group already have two high-quality EPs under their belt. Both 2021’s Awake And Hungry and 2022’s Human And Kind turned plenty of heads in alternative circles with their blend of traditional post-punk, Afrobeat, electronica and trip-hop. Self-produced by the band, Down There! Is a palpable step up…
The Big Moon are in town and the band are here to light up a dreary, drizzly Sunday night with their brand of anthemic indie rock. The night is opened by Liz Lawrence, whose solo show is a real delight. She builds tracks with loop pedals, primarily through keys and…
Nottingham four-piece Divorce return to Manchester on a bitterly cold Monday night. The city is starting to freeze over and the basement of YES is packed out with winter coats and scarves. Divorce have been here once before, playing mid-bill at a label showcase night: tonight they return to headline,…
The Pink room is a special place for live music: the upstairs of YES has rapidly become something of a status-symbol for bands and artists on the way up, and some of the country’s best, recent prospects have packed out the space. Tonight is the turn of homecoming hero, Antony…
The Murder Capital are back in the UK. They are in the midst of a European run, having already stopped off in some continental cities, and this home stretch takes them to the UK and Ireland. Wednesday night sees them in Leeds’ Project House. A new space in the city…