Author: Sounds From Nowhere
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6 Music Festival Review: Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Anna Calvi and More, 29-31/03/2019
The annual BBC Radio 6 Music Festival lands in Liverpool for the weekend and showcases our bright city for what it really is, the musical capital of the UK. The Eventim Olympia was the opening ground, the venue that in its original heyday held a circus, tonight is the stomping grounds for the live adventures…
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Wonderful Duo Her’s Have Passed Away, Confirms Label
Local pop favourites Her’s have tragically passed away after a road accident during their debut U.S tour, their record label has heartbreakingly confirmed. The fastly rising, wonderfully unique duo were fresh from Austin‘s SXSW showcase on their U.S tour when Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading, and their tour manager Trevor Engelbrektson were involved in a…
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Sleaford Mods, O2 Academy Liverpool, 03/03/2019
Sleaford Mods are back in town and whilst it feels like there should be a pre-gig tension in the air, inlight of Jason Williamson’s penchant for angry wailing polemics, there is a much more prevalent feeling of love in the air. No amount of city re-generation can hide the fact that Liverpool is still feeling…
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Boy Harsher, Kontravoid, Soup Kitchen Manchester, 26/02/2019
A smoke-filled basement lit only by the haze of a handful of colourful neon light tubes, with an assortment synthwave playing over the PA in the background, Manchester’s Soup Kitchen has been transformed into a setting within a sci-fi dystopia, a dim bunker that would not look out of place within Neo-Tokyo, nestled away from…
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Courtney Barnett To Headline Manchester Psych Fest 2019
Aussie hero Courtney Barnett will headline this year’s Manchester Psych Fest, as the yearly tradition moves to the O2 Ritz. Barnett will be joined by Temples, Goat Girl, The Lovely Eggs and many more. The festival takes place 30th August at O2 Ritz, Gorilla and the newly founded YES. Tickets are on-sale.
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Sound City Adds To 2019 Line-Up
Liverpool Sound City have added more names to their May weekend festival, as they return to the Baltic Triangle for 2019. Shame have been announced to be the third headliner, joining Loyle Carner and Mabel on the top bill. Blaenavon, Confidence Man, The Tea Street Band, King No-One, Kari Marni, Clean Cut Kid, SOAK, Stella…
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808 State, Lone, Pearson Sound, Manchester Academy, 21/12/2018
The city of Manchester can lay claim to be the focal point of dance music’s evolution, just as much as it was the gestation point for punk, and everything that followed. It was DJs around the city that began importing ‘the sounds of the future’, music created by the increasing availability of drum machines, samplers…
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Paul McCartney, Echo Arena Liverpool, 12/12/2018
Sir Paul returns to his hometown to showcase the many faces of McCartney with a three-hour extravaganza that won’t be forgotten. Walking up the Strand road towards the Echo Arena, you’re greeted by signs exclaiming “Welcome Home, Paul!”, to delight. There still has never been a bigger musical act than The Beatles, and there never…
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Malcolm Middleton, Granfalloon, Deaf Institute, Manchester 31/11/2018
“Let’s have some upbeat music for a Saturday night”. Malcolm Middleton was once part of the incredibly fun, cheery Falkirk pop duo Arab Strap, who had the knack of combining post-rock intricacies with spoken word passages- raw, visceral, dripping with gut-wrenching emotional honesty. If The Pogues were James Joyce for the punk generation, Arab Strap…
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The Heads, Mugstar, The Deaf Institute, Manchester 30/11/2018
Two legendary names in psychedelia team up to take over the iconic venue The Deaf Institute, remoulding it in their image. The Heads have been able to build up a reputation for their bombastic live shows and highly sought-after limited edition runs of albums- often less than 100 copies created and sold, all the while…
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