Megan Downing gives us the lowdown on what we can expect from Wireless Festival 2013
Alex Meehan reveals how Drenge are reviving the punk genre after their energetic gig at the Joiners.
SUSU’s Grad Ball last night proved to be a rousing success.
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…
Grace Pattle previews Redfest, whose line-up includes headliners Bastille and Dry The River.
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.