James Noble

The Stone Roses, one of the great bands that helped Manchester’s music scene secure it’s formidable reputation, recently announced two comeback gigs, to be held in June next year at the Etihad Stadium, and even organised two extra nights after overwhelmingly high demand for the £60+ tickets. They will also headline T in...

In January of this year, Björk released Vulnicura, her ninth studio album, to critical acclaim. Vulnicura Strings is the same record in acoustic form, but— unsurprisingly, given its famously eccentric creator— there’s not a softly strummed guitar to be heard. Instead, its predecessor’s dense electronic instrumentation has been replaced with...

The second effort from Edinburgh’s The Spook School is exhilarating, thought-provoking and unashamedly brilliant. On 2013’s Dress Up, we heard the sound of a band still figuring out who they were; their C86-inspired indie-pop impressive but perhaps lacking a certain degree of self-confidence. On Try To Be Hopeful, the...

Upon first listen, Arms Around a Vision is all too easily dismissible. Pleasant enough, the overwhelmingly similarities track-to-track leave it undistinguishable as a work of it’s own. It’s only on closer inspection that this album truly comes to life. The opening track ‘Reticence’ opens with promise. A slow-burning, hurtling...

Cambridge based rockers Mallory Knox returned to Nottingham as a part of their homecoming tour to take Rock City by storm. If we truly are defined by the company we keep, then Mallory Knox did themselves a wonderful service tonight.  The Xcerts opened the show to a half full...

Promoting the release of their second LP, Mothers, Swim Deep treated the bar at Rough Trade in Hockley to a brief and intimate set of new tracks from the album, as well as a few old favourites from Where The Heaven Are We. Building on a foundation of catchy,...

English, married, electro-pop duo Summer Camp arrived at The Bodega on Sunday night, ready to promote their latest full length release Bad Love.   It’s not difficult to see why Summer Camp chose Willie J Healey for the support on their autumn run of shows. Kicking off the proceedings for...