Live Review

A wasted frontman, a dig at Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods, a song for Joseph Goebbels, and half the band abandoning ship half an hour early – it’s all in a day’s work for the notorious, provocative, delightfully irreverent Fat White Family.  On the road promoting their second full-length release, Songs...

Madrid lo-fi garage rockers Hinds returned to Nottingham last Wednesday to treat Rescue Rooms to an evening of grooving, infectious tunes from their critically acclaimed debut album Leave Me Alone. Delivering a pacy set just over an hour in length, their endearing, slacker-rock aesthetics are present immediately – the rest of...

Manchester-based champions of melancholy, MONEY, kicked off their latest UK tour at The Bodega last Thursday to promote the  recent release of their acclaimed sophomore LP Suicide Songs. From mysterious beginnings (and a fair amount of moniker-altering) on the Manchester circuit a few years ago, MONEY have come to establish a...

The best things come to those who arrive early to gigs. Unfortunately, I was not, and never will be, one of those people. But the first 90 folks who trundled into Rescue Rooms to watch Shura were lucky enough to receive a shiny free vinyl. This personal disappointment was...

Madchester’s baggy Happy Mondays celebrated the 25th anniversary of their best known album – Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Belly Aches – at Rock City on the 26th of November, packing out the large venue with raucous fans, and proving that, despite their previous comeback failures, they haven’t worn themselves out...

It has been a stunning year for Courtney Barnett. Her debut LP – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit – was released in March to rave reviews, and it has been frequently featured around the top of many publication’s lists of the best albums of 2015. She’s sold out venues...

Opening their homecoming gig at Nottingham’s Rock City on the last leg of their UK tour, the six man folk band and their joy-filled audience were in high spirits. The reason why wasn’t hard to discern – they’d sold out the venue, a feat unheard of for an unsigned...