Author: Sam Welch


  • Frank Turner – NME Britain’s Best Small Venue Celebration Show at The Joiners (24/06/2013)

    If you weren’t lucky enough to get tickets for Frank Turner’s NME show at Joiners last night, Sam Welch is here to tell you what he thought.

  • The Bronx – The Bronx (IV)

    The Bronx return with their fourth self-titled album and Sam Welch tells us what he thinks.

  • 10 Alternative Christmas Songs to Freshen Your Seasonal Playlist

    The Edge presents a list of the best seasonal songs you may not have heard, in the hope of bringing something new to your Yuletide aural experience

  • Masterslut: Tim Key at The Arts Theatre, London

    Tim Key’s Masterslut show was a soapy bathful of fun

  • The Bronx at The Peel, Kingston (16/11/2012)

    The last time LA hardcore punk mob The Bronx played this intimate venue on London’s outskirts the city was in chaos. It was the worst night in London of the infamous country-wide violence that occurred over those few days in August last year, and front man Matt Caughthran’s cries of “they riot in the streets […]

  • An Interview with Chris from Turbowolf

    Turbowolf have been making waves in the British and European rock scenes for a while now, and this summer was no different with a seemingly endless festival itinerary and their recently released Covers EP. On the evening of their last (and hometown) gig of their first solo headline tour at Bristol’s The Fleece, mere moments […]

  • The Ladykillers at The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (15/10/2012)

    This adaptation of The Ladykillers is one I had been looking forward to seeing ever since hearing of the initial West End run. Penned by Graham Linehan (arguably one of the finest TV comedy writers around today) and based on what is a truly classic British comedy, maybe the hype I had created for myself […]

  • Every Time I Die at The Talking Heads (24/10/2012)

    Every Time I Die are not a band, up until this point, that I had had the pleasure of seeing live. Our festival paths have never crossed and whenever they were playing London whilst I was living there, I always either had a ticket and then subsequently couldn’t go (curse you 9 a.m. A-level maths exam!) or […]

  • Ringo Deathstarr – Mauve

    Pop quiz time, hands up who remembers the shoegaze movement of the late eighties and early nineties? Bonus question, who remembers one of the defining albums of the genre, My Bloody Valentine’s 1991 release Loveless? I can tell you one group of people who should have arms thrust quivering in the air in answer to […]

  • Turbowolf – Covers EP Vol. 1

    What would you get if you channelled the spirit of Black Sabbath through the sound system in an old haunted house fairground ride? Well besides a bizarre idea for a crossover theme park you’d also have possibly the closest approximation of the sound of Bristol four-piece Turbowolf. This is the first release since last year’s […]

  • Preview: The Ladykillers at The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (15/10/12 – 20/10/12)

    Following its success in London’s West End last year, the stage version of classic British comedy The Ladykillers is coming to Southampton near the start of a national tour which encompasses the end of 2012 until spring 2013. The story follows the tale of a kindly widow who is approached by a man proposing to rent […]