The argument against the live integrity of electronic music has often left acts like The Chemical Brothers with their backs against the wall. Suspicions over the supposed organic authenticity of performances can often overshadow the real experience people turn out in their tens of thousands to share at the mercy …
Once maligned and written off, now ripened and more respected with four studio albums and a greatest hits collection under their belts, InMe return with PledgeMusic-financed fifth offering ‘The Pride‘, once again attempting to demonstrate their oft-unrecognised importance to UK rock.
The Essex band are frequently ones to fall victim …
The students packing out the Academy could care less whether the reformation of cult noise duo Death From Above 1979 turns out to be a particularly fruitful or indeed lasting one. After five years apart, the chance to merely experience their famously riotous gigs on this occasion is enough to …
Kasabian’s previous album, ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum‘, was a chaotic concept disc in ode to classic mind-trip long-players that became an unexpected smash, earning the band a Mercury Prize nomination and an entire world of new listeners, many of whom were former detractors.
Despite its loony bin theme presuming …
After celebrating its tenth anniversary of championing the best in both established and undiscovered Northern Irish music in 2010, this year the Live4ever Ezine was ecstatic to return to the Eagle’s Rock summit for the leading independent festival in the land, Glasgowbury.
It may not be anything to do with …
Cedric Has a Name – it’s not a household name, but it’s a name Belfast songster Chris Steenson is hoping to make for himself. Aside from the slightly sniffy, hint of ‘indier than thou’ pseudonym he records under, the only other thing Steenson has to his own name in his …
Fans who thought the previous Kasabian album sounded like the inmates running the Pauper Asylum are in for a serious shock therapy session; new single ‘Switchblade Smiles‘ is possibly the most bonkers thing they’ve ever done.
In the world of rock’n’roll, boys will be boys. For Abandcalledboy it’s taken a slight change of name to relaunch themselves head-first into their familiar vicinity of deranged-sounding riff rock and unpredictable performances.
It really is hard to believe that Irish rock’n’roll bandits The Minutes have been making a racket for most of the past decade considering how their long overdue debut came to be. In the span of five hysteric days the three Dubliners fried twelve tracks barely caged by thirty five …
From the heart of County Armagh, Northern Ireland charges a hungry pack of rock brutes, carving trails of noise and youthful carnage wherever their hunts lead them. Collectively they go by Gascan Ruckus and having announced their arrival below the Irish radar last year with their EP “The Governor” they’re …
A few names immediately spring to mind when thinking of home town performances of the dizzyingly colossal variety. Muse brought the coast of Devon to a standstill with their Seaside Rendezvous. Oasis pencilled in a gathering of sixty thousand at the ground of their beloved Manchester City and last year …
Misleading bandnames – just as Sleigh Bells suggests something more in line with fudgy yuletide logs ala Cliff Richard rather than industrial acid-charged pop, you could be forgiven for expecting Cookstown, Northern Ireland trio Chocolate Love Factory to sound like David Hasselhoff thrusting his soul into a “You Sexy Thing” …
This year’s Rock Sound Magazine “Exposure Tour” intends to showcase three of the most promising new British bands in Dinosaur Pile Up, Japanese Voyeurs andThe Xcerts. Two thirds of tonight’s line-up are more ’90s than a pog-slamming Chumbawumba track, yet it’s the lacklustre filler sandwiched between that sounds most dated.…
Fifteen years after Oasis and Blur’s sensationalised singles scuffle, the media are dinging the bell for round two. But in place of the northern monkeys and southern fairies this time are two oblivious competitors being hammered into a ‘next big thing’ shaped hole.
Twenty acts formed in Northern Ireland within the last two years are needed for the “New Blood 2011” Belfast Calling showcase on February 20th.
The event, set to take place across three rooms in Belfast’s Limelight Complex, intends to gather and supply a platform for the next wave of Northern …