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…
The Great Escape 2013 closed with performances from Dan Croll, Lab Coast, Swim Deep, Lulu James and The 1975.
Saturday 18th May 2013 saw the return of the much anticipated Eurovision Song Contest; the annual event in which Europeans can distance themselves from political squabbling and economic hardship by enjoying, or possibly enduring, the musicalities of their surrounding nations. The Contest has been striding emphatically onwards for fifty eight years after first emerging as…
Friday at The Great Escape was filled with plenty more new music including Night Engine, The Family Rain, Little Green Cars, Iggy Azalea and Clean Bandit
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…
Last week The Edge went to The Great Escape in Brighton, and some of Thursday’s highlights include The Balconies, We Were Evergreen, Tom Odell, Jeremy Loops and Brooke Candy.
It’s fair to say that the Pigeon Detectives definitely still have many (mad) fans around and whilst their music may have changed slightly over the years their ability to put on a good live show will be everlasting.
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,…
After her show tour of 102 concerts following the release of I am … Sasha Fierce in 2009, it would be fair to say that Beyoncé had set herself a bar so high that even she, ‘Queen Bey’ would find difficult to vault. Since then, fans had been holding their breaths for the announcement of…
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…