• Album Review: The Drums – Encyclopedia

    It’s been two years now since we have been graced with an album from The Drums, the last of which was 2012’s dark and more developed Portamento. In that time they have gone through a few changes, the most significant being the loss of guitarist Connor Hanwick, leaving The...
  • Interview: Nico Vega

    Sunday morning is not a good slot for a festival, behind performing at a time parallel to The Arctic Monkeys (sorry Nero but was there anybody watching you?) Sunday morning performances are probably the least attended of the whole weekend. However, the bleary-eyed, slightly fuzzy-headed people that stumbled into...
  • Festival Diaries: Latitude

    Tucked away in the flat lying pastures of rural Suffolk, I almost stumbled upon Latitude by surprise as I was driving there in the sweltering summer afternoon. Bunting and banners lined the tight country roads, and soon we saw groups of backpack-clad festival goers making their way into the...
  • Festival Diaries: Glastonbury

    Friday I got my ticket for Glastonbury for the first time this year by working in the car parks, Alas, I slept in on ticket release day. As a car park worker by day I was only available in the evenings and missed some big acts. Even so, the event...
  • Review: Blissfields Festival 2014

    Located just outside of Winchester is Blissfields, a small festival that has a community feel like no other. It’s the only festival where they openly say ‘it never rains at Blissfields’ and it’s the only festival where you can walk around and have a conversation with anyone or anybody....
  • Album Review: Christian Fitness – I Am Scared of Everything That Isn’t Me

    When I went to see Against Me! on Halloween 2007, the newly formed Future of the Left opened. Three guys in costume walked out on stage to a half empty back room upstairs in the old Birmingham Academy, berated the audience for not dressing up for the occasion and then...
  • Review: Leeds Festival 2014

    Leeds Festival, it’s never going to be the warmest festival and it is usually overshadowed by Reading. However, armed with a few layers of thermals, Impact sought out the charms of the festival located in a field just off the M62. There is little disagreement that Arctic Monkeys stole the show, performing...