Author: Sounds From Nowhere
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Sound City Announces First Wave For 2019
The award-winning Liverpool Sound City has announced its first wave for next year’s festival, once again returning to the Baltic Triangle. The first announcement includes upcoming pop-titan Mabel headlining Saturday night and street-poet Loyle Carner taking up the Sunday headline slot, which will surely be a sight to see. They’re joined by local hero Louis…
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The Vryll Society, Peach Fuzz, Sunstack Jones, Lemonade Fix, Liverpool O2 Academy2, 19/10/2018
Eavesdropping in on the comments of just about everyone in earshot tonight exiting the Academy, leaves no doubt of the impact The Vryll Society are having on the city right now. With an album that will surely be showing up repeatedly in end of year mag reviews sporting the most iconic sleeve of the year…
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Elvana, Skull, Manchester O2 Ritz, 13/10/18
While tribute acts aren’t a regular here on Sounds From Nowhere, at the request of writer Liam Moody, we had to have him hit the Ritz on a Saturday night to witness one of the wildest tributes out there. Elvana is a Nirvana tribute band, fronted by Elvis Presley. They formed following an incident involving…
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The Coral, She Drew The Gun, Cut Glass Kings, Guild of Students 12/10/18
Wandering past the extensive and impressive merch stand I have to check my watch as it sounds like the seven-piece Coral have already started. Heading to the stage I see two solitary figures creating a sound not heard since a duo since I saw The Black Keys way back in the day. A flashing mobile…
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The Wedding Present, Desperate Journalist, Manchester Academy 05/10/2018
The Wedding Present have, over the space of 30-plus years, become the very definition of cult icons. Always the bridesmaids but never the brides, they emerged in the immediate aftermath of The Smiths‘ tumultuous breakup as the new frontrunners of indiepop, combining heavy-handed jangling guitars with sardonic, matter-of-fact lyrics about love and loss, all perfectly…
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Kylie, Liverpool Echo Arena, 03/10/2018
Bringing her Golden tour to Liverpool, pop legend Kylie Minogue doesn’t miss a beat at the Echo Arena. Tom Massam writes. October 3rd is mostly well known for ‘International Mean Girls Day.’ And seeing as it fell on Wednesday this year, it’s obligatory to wear pink right? Well, not necessarily if you’re going to Kylie…
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Festival No. 6 2018 Review
While Festival No. 6‘s current chapter comes to a close and the future at Portmeirion uncertain, Rebecca Worthington heads up to No. 6‘s wonderful world for one last time. For the seventh and final year, the peculiar, pastel-coloured village of Portmeirion, home of the 1967 TV Series The Prisoner, transformed into the bijou beauty that…
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Sharkmuffin, Femur, Pretty Witches, Night & Day Cafe Manchester, 08/08/2018
Brooklyn Riot Grrrl trio Sharkmuffin are in town as part of their UK Invasion tour, following the re-release of their second album Tsuki. Playing the legendary Night & Day Cafe, they have brought along two bands as a showcase for both have the potential to be something very special. For the first few minutes, local…
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Bluedot 2018 Review
Another year at Jodrell Bank, Bluedot continues to show that their science, space and music festival at the most gorgeous location on Earth can’t be beaten. Plastic Mermaids open our day, which is very slow, unfortunately there’s not much musically to wisk you away. Although, Plastic Mermaids quite nail their introduction. Their sound is massive…
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Citadel 2018 Review
Just as Citadel returns for another year, boasted by a headline set by Tame Impala, we sent Rebecca Worthington to Gunnersbury Park to check out the mind mischief. There was glorious weather for London’s newest one-day event, Citadel, where notable acts The Horrors, Fat White Family, Goat, Leon Bridges and CHVRCHES impressed at Gunnersbury Park,…
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