Author: Sounds From Nowhere
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Lightning Seeds, Clean Cut Kid Play Zanzibar Show TONIGHT
After the shambolic cancellation of Hope and Glory Festival, The Lightning Seeds have announced a free gig to festival goers tonight at the Zanzibar with Clean Cut Kid. Doors are at 7pm for the gig and Hope and Glory goers who were left in the dirt by the festival are able to get in for…
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Charlotte Church’s Late Night Pop Dungeon, Liquidation @ EBGBs 05/08/2017
After being binned by the scary-mess Hope & Glory Festival, Charlotte Church proved she won’t be kept from having fun. Jack Cinnamond ran from Hope & Glory to catch a blast of fun at Liquidation at EBGBs. I’m not going to preach you on how woeful and dangerous Hope & Glory Festival was on opening…
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Toots and The Maytals Play Olympia This Tuesday!
Legendary reggae outfit Toots and The Maytals are set to play the Liverpool Olympia this Tuesday in a heavily anticipated show. It’s a great year for reggae fans in the city, with Positive Vibrations getting acclaim, The Beat and The Selecter doing a double header in December and now, the iconic Toots and The Maytals…
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Belgium Post-Punks Fornet Release Unsettling Video for “Erase (I’m Alive)”
Noise-driven Belgium post-punks Fornet have released the video for their lead single, coming from their upcoming self-titled debut EP, and it’s a unsettling, brilliant must-see take. The video which shows a modern middle-aged man essentially erasing the hair from his body to Fornet‘s crunching post-punk noise infused with krautrock reinforcement. The single is off the…
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PREMIERE: WIFE – Marilyn Single Release, EP to Follow in September
We’re always proud when we get to premiere a single from a great up and coming band and today we’re pleased as punch to review the new single from filthy rockers WIFE. The single, out later tonight, is the trio’s first release on the DIY label Society of Losers which now throws them under their…
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The La’s Announce Rarities 1987 Album and Liverpool Exhibition
Legendary Liverpudlians The La’s will be the subject of a exhibition at the Florrie and will release a rarities album this September. 30 years following the debut tour of cult Liverpudlian pop legends The La’s, the Viper Label and RedHouse Originals have announced a celebration of the tour including an exhibition and a new rarities…
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Poly Styrene Celebration Tomorrow at BME Liverpool
Tuesday, August 1st will see a celebration of a punk icon at the British Music Experience in Liverpool with a special in-conversation all in honour of punk-hero Poly Styrene, frontwoman of the deliberate underachievers X-Ray Spex. John Robb, famed writer and frontman of The Membranes, will be talking to Poly Styrene’s daughter Celeste Ball and…
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Liverpool Music Week ’17 First Wave Announced, CHIC & Nile Rodgers to Open
The annual award-winning Liverpool Music Week has officially been announced for its 15th year with an already amazing first wave of acts including this year’s openers, CHIC & Nile Rodgers. This year’s Liverpool Music Week has already set a bar to be the best yet with its first wave of acts which were announced earlier…
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Brian Wilson, Exhibition Centre, 28/07/2017
As the Beach Boys‘ founder Brian Wilson brought Pet Sounds to Liverpool one last time, SFN‘s Jack Cinnamomd was there to capture a legend in a standout performance. Looking back at their time, there aren’t many 60s pop bands as celebrated as The Beach Boys, with their dizzying fun early surf-hits to the later half…
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The Fluctuating Legacy of Sgt. Pepper’s
The 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has now passed, the fanfare has died down and the box sets are already dropping in price on Amazon. In fact, the anniversary received rather less fanfare than I had been expecting and this is probably because, while the album is still rightly regarded as one…
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