Adam Nutter live with The Music at Temple Newsam, Leeds (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
To a dedicated fanbase The Music are An Important Band.
At a time when the New Rock Revival were consuming …
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 …
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). …
The Smiths’ Mike Joyce by Paul Husband (2022)
Moreish Idols by Caspar Swindells
For creatives, it’s an old adage that the environment you inhabit affects your work.
To take two examples, David Bowie and Arctic Monkeys both produced albums which were …
The Lounge Society by Alex Evans
Life comes at you pretty fast. Even faster when you’re in a young band, riding the crest of a wave of festival dates during the busiest summer for three years, with …
Jamie Webster at the 2022 SXSW Live4ever Media Lounge (Photo: Paul Bachmann)
By definition, almost everyone who joins us at the …
Isaac Holman (Baby Dave) by Harvey Williams-Fairley
Spring is here and with it comes the additional responsibility for houseowners of sorting out their garden.
For circa six months the greenery would likely have been neglected and, while to some weeding and trimming is an arduous task, it does have its …
Pillow Queens with Live4ever @ SXSW 2022 (Photo: Paul Bachmann)
Amidst the lockdowns of 2020, September saw the release of Pillow Queens’ debut album In Waiting through their own label.
A collection of songs …
Where do I fit in?
It’s a profound question that everyone at some point in their lives asks themselves. We are tribal creatures, and society has always dictated that we must be part of something bigger, even if that’s just one side of an opinion.
It’s not a healthy attitude, …
Crows by Jono White
Given the perilous situation of the music industry since the pandemic began it would have been no surprise to see a deluge of acts throw in the towel and retire from the industry.
As is now common knowledge, musicians primarily make their money from touring and, …
Dylan John Thomas by Anthony Mooney
Dylan John Thomas is making up for lost time.
Within seconds of his conversation with Live4ever, with pleasantries out of the way, the young Scotsman’s enthusiasm and positivity radiates from the other end of the line as he recalls his hometown gig at St. …
Coming up this November, Happy Mondays drummer Gary Whelan will be putting on a number of live shows, playing acoustic versions of some of the band’s legendary songs.
We caught up with him to get the lowdown on these upcoming events.
You’ve got a couple of Happy Mondays acoustic shows …
There wasn’t much fun to be had last year, watching shiny people bragging on social media that they’d already built a garden shed and earned themselves a PhD in Astrophysics by the first Thursday of lockdown, especially as you’d been mostly sat in your sweatpants eating Monster Munch sandwiches.
For …
The Lathums by Ewan Ogden
Hyperbole is a huge part of the music business; how many times have music fans been promised a ‘band that will change your life’ or that said band are ‘the best since the Beatles/Bowie/Smiths/Oasis’ etc?
Overblown praise and expectation is such a part of the …
James by Laura Toomer
Back in 2018, legendary band James released an album entitled Living In Extraordinary Times against a backdrop of climate change, the rise of right-wing populism and race divides which were bubbling under the surface.
For context, it was eighteen months into Donald Trump’s four-year term as …