Alex Meehan reveals how Drenge are reviving the punk genre after their energetic gig at the Joiners.
Glen Bar played host to YouTube sensation Cassetteboy and Radio 1 Xtra DJ Trevor Nelson
The weather yesterday morning was a massive cause for concern; everybody knows that festivals in the rain are nowhere near as good as those in the sun. Thankfully though, as the thunderstorms dwindled away, the promised sun appeared for day one of Freshers Fest. As I walked through the archway to Connaught’s old quad I…
Fast-rising Californian post-hardcore titans Pierce The Veil are once again gracing UK shores with their presence after the astonishing success of their sell-out headline tour last October. This time around, however, the venues are bigger (though still sold out), the supports acts higher profile and the crowd even more enthusiastic than ever before. Make no…
This gig was different. Very different. After all, how many of us can say we’ve been to a gig where the set consisted of piles of vintage televisions showing old propaganda footage from World War Two? Where the band only interacted with its audience through a series of automated, Queen’s-English style announcements? And where samples from…
Despite being a Southampton student you could still be forgiven for having yet to discover The Brook, a local music venue whose aspect is pretty bleak, loitering as it is on a corner to the far end of Portswood Road. Get inside though and you’ll kick yourself for having underestimated it so; the unexpectedly vast…
Expectations for tonight’s show are high to say the least; the first date of BFW’s first UK headline tour in four years, and their first on UK soil since the release of their new album ‘Uprising’. Hand-picked local openers Doomed From Day One start off slowly, but really win over the crowd and make plenty of…
Here Edge writers Natt Day and Tom Wingrave give a different approach to Takedown Festival. For those of you who are somehow unaware, the University of Southampton played host to Takedown Festival 2013, which saw the University transformed into a full blown music festival for the day. With a huge number of bands on the…
Edge writer Joe Turner enthuses about his experience at this year’s Takedown Festival, once again hosted by University of Southampton’s Students’ Union.
I arrived for SEMSU’s Electro-Juice event a little early as I had been asked to set up a laptop in collaboration with Surge and SEMSU to record the entire show. HEATH:WARD’s set has since been uploaded as a podcast, available here. The evening kicks off Adam Greenen and, following some minor issues with the desk,…
Following the release of Animal earlier this year The Pigeon Detectives went on tour, releasing their fourth album ‘We Met At Sea’ just days ago, between playing in Stoke and Norwich. Their appearance at Wedgewood rooms, Portsmouth on Saturday the 11th May will mark the end of a 15 venue tour that’s being used as…
For those of you unaware, last year the University of Southampton played host to the Takedown festival, which transformed the university into a full blown music festival. With last year’s 4 stages hosting the likes of Skindred, Deaf Havana, Lower Than Atlantis, Bury Tomorrow and Bleed From Within, the festival successfully managed to bring the…
The first sign that tonight’s sold out show at the Joiners is something a little bit different comes when looking at the queue to enter. Where there are normally grizzled rock fans, complete with beards, tattoos and scowls, there is lashings of eyeliner, chiselled cheekbones and enough hair spray to choke an elephant. And that’s…
I have to confess, I haven’t been to many small scale gigs yet, so experiencing the intimate and casual atmosphere of Southampton’s The Cellar was something fairly new to me. Morain were one among several bands playing there that night, so there was a broad range of live acts to compare them too. In light…