Wet Leg by Hollie Fernando
The last 12 months have been, if nothing else, a year of extremes.
Although the first three felt like a year – the usual January blues maximised and extended to an intolerable degree with lockdown for a whole season – as the spring arrived, society …
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 …
Robert Harrison has been talking Live4ever through the path to the release of Watching The Kid Come Back this Friday, July 23rd.
With Cotton Mather, Harrison found a niche spot in the affections of Brit Rock …
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 …
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 …
The Howlers by Rob Blackham
Pre-pandemic, London three-piece The Howlers were making steady inroads with their garage/post-punk rock, with the gigs gradually increasing in capacity and their steady run of singles starting to garner attention from the likes of Steve Lamacq.
Worldwide events acted to curtail any further progress, but …
Royal Blood by Mads Perch
‘A lot of people have boxed us into the rock and roll thing, but Mike and I came from a pop background; pop and funk. This new record shows some of the other influences that we like in music.”
“Mike was always a fan of …
The Coral are arguably too big to be regarded as a ‘cult band’ but not big enough to dominate the festival circuit.
The Liverpool quintet have spent nearly 20 years sustaining a loyal fanbase; loyal for good reason. Despite forthcoming album Coral Island being their eighth studio effort (ish….it’s complicated), …
Who?
We are Will (vocals, keys), Alex (guitar, bass), Stroudy (guitar), Tom (bass, keys).
Where?
Nottingham! Individually we’re all from different ends of the country; Will from Kent, Alex from London, Stroudy from Chester and Tom from Lincoln. As a band though, we met as students at the University of …
Louise Wener speculates: “Given what’s happened subsequently, and the last few years, it feels like a golden period. That rose-tinted spectacled view of it is only going to entrench. It could be the last magic moment in the way we lived in western democracy, who knows?”
“We were at peace …
TV Priest by Dan Kendall
“There’s a reason why I’ve done this when I’m 32. Whatever’s been done before failed to connect on an audience level or a personal level. Not to say I think all of it was bad, but it’s not connected because I haven’t been truthful in …
Sleaford Mods at the Leeds Beckett Students Union (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Irony isn’t so much your friend as a stranger who gleefully punches your lights out at the moment; for Jason Williamson, that Sleaford Mods’ excellent sixth album Spare Ribs was recorded at the end of one British lockdown …
Blanketman by Through The Eyes Of Ruby