Category: Features

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    The Edge

    The Affordable Festival Guide 2013

    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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    Howell Davies

    Eurovision 2013: The best & worst

    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

    The Anticipated Festivals Guide 2013

    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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    Elinor Day

    ‘As long as we’ve got a good fan-base, we’ll play to anyone.’ An Interview with Jettblack

    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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    Frank Andrews

    ‘I’ll keep going until everyone’s properly bored of me’. An interview with Shuffle-T

    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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    Daniel Flynn

    ‘The best stories are the ones I can’t remember’: An interview with Shaun Ryder

    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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    Phoebe Cross

    “We would like to support Little Comets!” – An Interview with To Kill A King

    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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    Alex Meehan

    ‘What isn’t Candy Crush?’ An interview with Peace at the Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth (23/04/2013)

    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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    Emily Webb

    Introducing: San Cisco

    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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    Alex Meehan

    ‘Our main goal really is to create anthem music, ideally we’d like to fill a stadium’. An interview with Morain at the Cellar (20/04/2013)

    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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    Michael Rose

    “A good pair of clean socks is absolutely necessary!” – An interview with Mount Kimbie

    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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    Emily Webb

    ”Have you actually ever solved any poultry mysteries?” An interview with Jimmi from The Pigeon Detectives (02/04/2013)

    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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    Grace Pattle

    ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’- Why are we so dissatisfied with the state of the music industry nowadays?

    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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    Bethany Swale

    Stu Larsen at The Brook (08/03/13)

    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 […]