Saloon Dion with Live4ever @ SXSW 2023 (Photo: Paul Bachmann)
Call us a bunch of old curmudgeons, but a punned band name is always something that’s guaranteed to get Live4ever off on the wrong foot with a …
Andy Bell performing with Ride in Bristol on April 24th, 2022 (Photo: Alessandro Gianferrara for Live4ever)
Despite today’s world of pro-tools, curated playlists and music camps (no, we didn’t know they were a thing either …
Yard Act live @ Sound City 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
There’s a lot about 2020 that now just seems…odd.
Police tape on park benches. Brandon Flowers singing Mr. Brightside into his bathroom mirror. That bit when the Gtech AirRam …
Caleigh (guitarist/lead vox); Carly (bassist/lead vox); Chris (drums).
We are based out of Georgetown TX, just north of Austin.
Paramore, Brand New, Third Eye Blind, Basement.
The band started with just Caleigh and went through many changes (7 drummers and 3 bass players in 6 years). …
Alex Turner fronting Arctic Monkeys @ Brooklyn Steel (Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
It’s not the first time the Arctic Monkeys have had a notable homecoming at Leeds Festival.
This their home in a festival sense in …
The War On Drugs by Shawn Brackbill
There’s a wonderful charm to 80’s sci-fi movies.
Despite a usually dystopian view of the future, it was an era when the technological march had begun to move fast; Donkey Kong, Motorola DynaTACs …
Liam Gallagher headlining TRNSMT Festival 2021 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
It’ll be choppy, but we’ll get there in the end.
It could describe the short journey the thousands made from the south coast over to the Isle Of Wight Festival last weekend. It equally could describe the tentative comeback of …
W. H. Lung by Adrian Davies
During the past couple of weeks, Live4ever has been shining the spotlight on some of our favourite albums and tracks of 2021 so far – we conclude today with W. H. Lung.What a bumper year for music 2019 was.
Whilst no-one could’ve predicted …
English Teacher by Sophie Jouvenaar
Who?
We have me (Lily) on vocals, synth and rhythm guitar. Lewis on lead, Douglas on drums and Nick on bass.
Where?
We’re from all over the country, but English Teacher formed and finds home in Leeds.
Why?
Shame; Fat White Family; Black Country, New …
The Lounge Society by Piran Aston
This week, Live4ever is shining the spotlight on some of our favourite albums and tracks of 2021 so far – today’s highlight comes from The Lounge Society.To those from further afield, that Hebden Bridge is fast establishing itself as one of the most …
The Lathums by Ewan Ogden
This week, Live4ever is shining the spotlight on some of our favourite albums and tracks of 2021 so far – today’s highlight comes from The Lathums.It doesn’t seem too long ago that we had bands like Manic Street Preachers wondering aloud why musicians had …
Little Simz by Jack Bridgland
Over the next few days, Live4ever will be shining the spotlight on some of our favourite albums and tracks of 2021 so far – today’s highlight comes from Little Simz.On the face of it, it’s been a good few years professionally for Little Simz.…
The old trope, usually applied to jazz but which can seem to work for any genre you don’t particularly have much time for, goes that an artist should never be enjoying themselves up on stage any more than the audience are watching on.
For black midi, the joke was that …
Idles in Brooklyn during their Joy As An Act Of Resistance world tour (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)
Late in the Friday evening of April 18th, 1930, those in the UK with the sufficient inclination and technological means to sit around a wireless set and learn of the latest world events …
On our Best Albums list, 2019 brought us future classics from Fontaines D.C., Dave, The Murder Capital, FEET, slowthai and black midi to name just a few. Those and plenty more feature too on our favourite tracks of the year.
Picked out by editor David Smith from the hundreds …
Idles playing Brooklyn Steel on May 10th, 2019 (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)
‘The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time’ goes the George Bernard Shaw quote, one now so ubiquitous you can find it emblazoned on…