Ian Fillingham

After a year where everyday has seemed to result in more success, Sleaford Mods return to Nottz to check up on where they started. Acknowleding the Nottingham scene with true respect the band were preceded by a line-up of the city’s finest acts. For a band who describe themselves...

Beacons Festival 2014 Highlights Set in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales and under some stormy Skipton skies, Beacons Festival once again brought together some of the world’s finest musical talents, arts and unparalleled festival food. Void of all of the mainstream commercialisation of the bigger festivals, another successful...

Feeling glum as your holidays wind to a close? Already starting to feel down about the prospect of trudging ‘back to school’ in a few depressingly short weeks? Why not chase away those summertime blues with some nihilistic Sludgecore courtesy of Buffalo, NY’s Water Torture? I came across this...

By rule of thumb, the first bands to achieve crossover success from marginal genres do so by completely compromising their values and/or by consciously altering their sound to suit a mainstream palate. Subsequently, creativity stagnates and identical records are churned out for the next decade. It’s bad enough when...