Category: Features
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Running through the second part of our 2013 festival round-up, The Edge gives you the Affordable Festival Guide featuring Blissfields, Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Parklife & last weekend’s Takedown Festival
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Want to know who’s who, and what’s awful in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest? Look no further!
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The Edge takes you through the first of our three part festival guide, with this year’s most anticipated festivals, featuring Isle of Wight, Benicassim, Glastonbury, Bestival, and Reading & Leeds.
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While Jettblack were in Southampton on their sell-out co-headline tour with CrashDiet; I was lucky enough to sit down for a chat with bass player Tom Wright and lead singer Will Stapleton, talking weird fans, changes in musical style and how they avoid boredom while on tour. So, to kick things off, how did you guys get…
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In the past few weeks 2 battles have been released onto YouTube which have proved incredibly popular; Shuffle-T and Marlo’s ‘bad bars’ battle has over 100,000 views, and their latest 2- on- 2 against Big J and Lefty is set to do the same. I’ve spoken to Shuffle a few times at different Don’t Flop…
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Forget Noel, forget Liam; everybody knows that the only seminal Manchester musician worth talking to is Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays fame.
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I met up with Ralph, Ian and Jon from folk rock band To Kill A King at their Portsmouth support date whilst they were on tour with Dog Is Dead. We talk album recording, vinyl and Daft Punk covers. Have you been to Portsmouth before? Ralph: This is our first time in Portsmouth ever actually!…
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While in Portsmouth on their In Love tour, brothers Sam and Harry (with Doug making a short appearance) talk to the Edge about Parents, JLS and Angry Birds socks. Tonight’s show is sold out, you’ve sold out quite a number of dates, that’s pretty awesome. Sam: Yeah, there’s one show with four tickets left, so…
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Can you really do justice to a band through a piece of writing? It’s like trying to persuade someone to read your favourite book by telling them to listen to a song. If you really want to understand the developing hype around San Cisco you’re gonna have to listen for yourself, but I can give…
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During some down-time from their support tour with Canterbury, Morain’s own ambitious Wil Frost talks with the Edge about sleeping in a leaky van and the real reason to be in a band. So Far, What’s it been like touring with Canterbury and are you looking forward to future dates? Yesterday was Bournemouth, and the…
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With only weeks left until the release of their sophomore LP Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, The Edge chatted with Mount Kimbie’s Dominic Maker about the record, the new faces of the mainstream and… socks. Where abouts are you today? I am currently sat on a sofa in Netil House in Hackney. We’ve got a little rehearsal room…
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Like a teen desperate to grow up, then hitting adulthood with nostalgic thoughts of their fun -filled childhood, as Jimmi (the drummer) explains in the following interview, the Pigeon Detectives are dipping back into their less sophisticated earlier sound to come up with something refreshing for their fourth album,We met at sea, set for release…
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After recently watching the BBC Rolling Stones documentary ‘Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane’ it struck me just how bad things in the music world have got. Upon this realisation I fell into a deep dark depression. ‘How’ I asked myself, ‘are we ever going to experience something as revolutionary and ground-breaking as the likes of The…
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The mainstream scene is yet to encounter the man himself, but self-acclaimed nomad Stu Larsen is a definite hidden gem. March 8th brought the musician’s fourth visit to The Brook, this time unaccompanied by the familiar face of Mike Rosenberg, aka the Passenger. Stu Larsen is a very humble and genuine individual with an equally…