The last day of Reading sadly arrived and to start the day Pulled Apart By Horses were on the Main Stage. I’m not a massive fan of theirs but the crowd seemed to relish to opportunity to see this band, despite them being on so early in the day; I’m sure a lot of fans…
At first I thought the people at Reading were teasing the punters by playing Green Day tracks at about 10:50 on the Saturday morning. However, this was possibly, as Billy Joe Armstrong put it ‘The best worst kept secret the UK have ever seen’. As I heard his voice in between songs I knew that…
I arrived in Reading and after a long and painful journey from one end of the site to the other, I was finally allowed in. The guest area was very very impressive, the best I’ve seen so far this summer. The first act I managed to catch was Scroobius Pip. One of his last shows…
Backstage at the Vans of the Wall Stage at Boardmasters this summer I managed to catch up with the American pop-punk band Set Your Goals. Co-Frontman Matt Wilson and drummer Daniel Coddaire took 10 minutes out of their busy schedule to tell me about touring, recording and Punk Goes Crunk. How’re you finding touring this…
After 18 months The Vaccines are back with their second album titled Come of Age. Queue multiple puns about how they have grown up and literally ‘come of age’ in terms of their musical sound. I’ll try not to be as cliched despite this being very, very true. After the first album they left us…
The fourth single from what is said to be one the best albums of 2012, Given To The Wild by The Maccabees, is the wonderful ‘Ayla’. Personally ‘Ayla’ is my favourite track from the album and has grown to be one of the best tracks in recent times. I know this is a massive thing…
Located near Taunton in Somerset the wonderful Strummer of Love Festival took place this August. I head over from my home in Devon hoping to catch some brilliant music and experience the great festival atmosphere. That’s exactly what I gained from the experience. It was far from the hectic mosh pits of Reading and Leeds…
A decent crowd started to form around a small band stand in the middle of a park in Southampton on Wednesday evening. The only sign that something was happening to a regular ‘out-of-the-loop’ passer by would be the enigmatic triangle hanging from the bandstand. Not so enigmatic to the fans that surrounded it however. It…
Being from Devon, travelling down to Cornwall wasn’t all that strenuous, so Boardmasters was a conveniently wonderful festival to attend. The festival is relatively small but after chatting to some regular Boardmasters-goers they said that this year is the biggest and best to date and this was verified by the pretty stunning line-up. On the…
After watching their phenomenal set at Strummer of Love Festival I got a chance to chill out with Dan and Will from Bastille outside their temporary, luxurious, dressing room area aka – a small caravan. It was such a poignant time to talk to Bastille, on the cusp of becoming very very popular, with lots…
Bastille have announced their Triangle Tour. They have simply let the public (via Facebook) decide three locations in which they will be playing an outdoor, unplugged session for those dedicated fans that decide to show up in the random locations. Southampton prevailed and got the most votes out of all the cities nominated (Go Southampton!),…
‘Bad Blood’ is the new single from Bastille. To be honest, if you haven’t heard of Bastille already then you really should sit up and pay attention. After getting a significant amount of airplay on BBC Radio 1 and featuring on Huw Stephen’s show very recently, it seems others are really starting to take Bastille…
The people at Bestival have announced some exciting things in the build up to the start of the festival. With less than 4 weeks to go the brand new ‘Replay with Rob da Bank’ stage has been announced as a new addition for this year. Other news includes a revamp of The Bollywood Tent. It’s…
Those people who have been fans of The Midnight Beast for years, like me, would have thought this album has been a long time coming. The number of parody songs they now have under their belt is definitely enough to fill an album, if not two! But to be fair, the trio’s circumstances would obviously…