Fresh off a tour with Emeli Sandé and currently supporting Aiden Grimshaw, afro-pop artist Seye is set to be huge in the coming year. Signed to Stranger Records, 23 year old Seye from Nigeria now lives in East London. It seems music is in his blood, as he is the brother of Gbenga from Metronomy. I…
This time last year I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat and, above all, I couldn’t stop worrying. I was so terrified about starting at Southampton that I felt physically sick every time the thought crossed my mind. What if I had weird people in my halls? What if I didn’t like my course? What if…
Catch a Fire at the Guildhall is set to pay tribute to the legendary music of Bob Marley and the Wailers, whilst celebrating 50 years of Jamaican independence, on Friday 12 October. Part of the the Lively Up! festival, which is touring 50 musicians and dancers to ten UK cities, honouring several reggae icons including…
After playing their support slot for Wolfgang at Joiners, The Edge caught up with the four-piece.
Here is part two of my interview with Bastille at Reading Festival earlier this year. Check out part one here. If you were to have any special guest vocalists or do any collaborations, who would be the dream? Will: Rihanna! Everyone: Yep! Will: For obvious reasons. For that bodaaaaay Dan: You said it! Saw it…
At this year’s Reading Festival I managed to catch up with everyone’s favourite new band, Bastille. I found myself waiting around in the press area until it was time to call and confirm the interview. It came to 2:50 and I got a phone call asking if I could be escorted to the Festival Republic…
Alt-J ∆ are by far one of the most talked about bands so far this year, with a Mercury Prize nomination and an amazingly successful debut under their belt I wonder what the seeming force of nature that is Alt-J ∆ can do next. I had the opportunity to speak to guitarist/bassist Gwil Sainsbury over…
I met up with Frightened Rabbit’s drummer Grant Hutchinson, brother of lead singer Scott. We talk new albums, drunken festivals, steroids and dinosaurs. What have you been up to lately? We’ve finished recording the new album, we did it in Wales in a studio called Mono-Valley. That was in May, and it’s getting mixed right…
The singer-songwriter for Sheffield catches up with The Edge following her second album, Calling All Angels.
The Hairy Bikers have some tried and tested survival tips for student living away from home
Emma Real-Davies gives us her picks from the much celebrated, eclectic festival.
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…
Following the announcement of their newest album Astraea, The Edge got a chance to chat to James Spence, the synth man and vocalist for ‘mathcore’ rockers Rolo Tomassi, about the band’s changing line-up, how they are defined and their future, You recently announced the release of your new album, what can you tell us about…
With Scandinavian electro-pop being all the rage, you might assume that Alpines come from the depths of some Norwegian glacier, feeding off the natural aura or something equally fantastical. Yet this enticing, ice cold duo are actually natives of the positively flat Kingston-upon-Thames. In their youth – this is not to say they are old – they’ve also been…