After a busy 2012 which saw Yashin release their biggest album to date, replace their guitarist and tour with the likes of Limp Bizkit and Black Veil Brides, as well as playing Download festival, 2013 promises to be another exciting year for the Scottish post-hardcore band, beginning with this short March tour of small venues.…
Following the February release of their self-titled debut album, Theme Park’s gig at the Joiners Arms last Tuesday was the second in their eleven day tour.
Jim Moray’s gig for Forest Live (at Fordingbridge’s Town Hall) is the only gig at which I’ve been able to buy a chilli-con-carne half way through. That may seem irrelevant, but I just wanted to point out what a quirky and great job Forest Live did in running the gig. Getting multi-folk award winning Jim…
It was with a degree of nostalgia that I stepped into the depths of Southampton University’s Old Refectory, trapped on all sides by an eclectic mixture of excitable younger teens and much older, die-hard fans. Having watched the Fish play in London at least three or four times when I was around the age of…
It’s chaos in The Brook. The room is packed out past capacity. Every inch of space is crammed with people, smoke machines, flashing lights. And there in the centre, beating the hell out of a piano and literally jumping up and down in his seat in a frenzy of creative passion, is recent BRIT award…
Arriving at 8.30 for Beats and Swing night, so as not to miss any support acts, we inevitably entered a pretty deserted Wedgewood Rooms. After a brief confusion over the name of the magazine and next door’s ‘The Edge of the Wedge’ – leading the doorman to believe we were trying to review a private…
We Came Out Like Tigers could not have chosen a better venue for their secret show. In the cellar of a tattoo shop with blood red hand prints painted over the walls I felt like I was stepping in to the back of some backstreet modern day speakeasy. For those of you who may not…
I once saw an article in the NME which outlined what it regarded as some “gig essentials”. It was a list of those crucial items that people often forget to grab in the flurry of pre-gig excitement as they rush out of the front door in eager anticipation for the forthcoming show – spare camera…
Not knowing a huge amount about Zulu Winter, the Kaiser Chief’s support act, I was excited to see what was in store to get the crowd going for the main event. Having found out that the band had played with the likes of Friendly Fires, The Horrors and Keane I was expecting something good and…
The sixth night of Bastille’s ‘Bad Blood Tour’ came to Southampton’s Mo’Club this week. The Edge had to opportunity to catch up with the band before the show and talk about their recent chart success and the upcoming festival season. The night kicked off with electro minded indie outfit The Ramona Flowers. Overall they were pretty…
As I stepped into the concert hall, I was greeted by a dimly lit stage bordered with flags and strewn with exotic instruments: a koto, tabla drums and a six stringed ukulele. I knew from first glance that it was going to be a show like no other. The lights went down, even lower, and…
The opening act of the night was my GCSE art book in band-form. The duo from Dublin expressed a wide variety of fun and creative ideas, and were evidently having a great time in the process. Nothing has been perfected yet, however Hudson Taylor have an enormous amount of potential, particularly with their honorable harmonies.…
Determined to prevent themselves from being branded ‘has-beens’, the Kaiser Chiefs brought their energetic spring tour to the Southampton Guildhall this Monday, and certainly did everything in their power to convince us that they wouldn’t be calling it a day any time soon. Recently losing their drummer of fifteen years, Nick Hodgson, to a thirst…
Bastille are set to play at the Mo’ Club on 7th March 2013 and it is the 6th show on their sell out headline tour. For those of you who were lucky enough to get tickets you are in for a treat. Bastille’s live sets are known for their insane amount of energy and perfect…