Idles at the Live4ever Media Lounge sponsored by Pirate Studios
“We could make chocolate dildos, made from our own penises. Erect of course.” Read what you like into that, misinterpret it or spell it out. It’s what Idles would want people to do.
Ryan Adams returns with one of those rarest of things, a divorce album.
Like Marvin Gaye’s Here My Dear or Bill Withers‘ +Justments or Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, it’s a rare breed of an album, when artists often let down their guards and produce music a more …
Like the Edgar Broughton Band on downers, but full of love.
Duke Garwood returns with his much anticipated follow up to 2015’s Heavy Love, but this is no follow up, it’s a deeper immersion into Garwood’s heartbreak. Like returning to a dream you half remember, it has that uneasy …
To round off our Best Of 2016 series, some of Live4ever’s writers have picked out their own favourite albums from the past year, ranging from the return electronic of legends after over a decade away to one of the year’s brand new collaborations. You can revisit our entire Best Of …
White Denim are a rare sight in a city like Leeds, bringing some much needed soul to a town full of heart.
This isn’t just some indie band playing the hits, this is music built from the roots up. Tonight it’s all on show, the interplay between the band and …
New albums are nothing new, and neither are bands taking new directions; Slaves might offer both, but you’d have to be crazy to take them at their word.
‘Take Control’ is, if it’s possible, angrier than ‘Are You Satisfied?’. You have to admire their balls – it’s not the usual …
Ever sat listening to the latest electro-synth supposed awesomeness of the ‘next big thing’ and wondered why bands no longer sound like Townes Van Zandt, or ‘Nebraska’/’The River’-era Bruce Springsteen anymore?
Well, it turns out doing this doesn’t mean that you’re ‘out of touch’ musically, and you’re not alone.
There’s something different about Wild Beasts these days, something you can’t ignore.
Gone are the indie-oddities loved by those looking for the next new noise to get excited over, say hello to the ‘new’ sound, and that’s right we just used the ’n’ word to describe an indie …
The Last Shadow Puppets at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl, July 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
It’s only a side project. It’s only a side project. It’s only a side project. Repeated enough times with closed eyes it might have been possible to have left tonight’s show not convinced The …
“Second verse, same as the first”. Not a bad mantra, and one Manchester’s Spring King seem to be using to great effect on their debut album ‘Tell Me If You Like To’.
These boys really know their way round a shouty chorus, yet they balance them so well with just …
Augustines round three, what to expect? Is it big? Is it bombastic? Is it beautiful? And most importantly is it as good as their first two?
Here’s the set-up. Extraordinarily talented band release two lauded albums, play live until they physically collapse and build expectation beyond any acceptable level for …