Category: Live

Big Weekend came to Liverpool this past weekend, bringing a wave of energy, excitement, and world-class music to Sefton Park, proving once again that Liverpool knows how to throw a festival to remember. SFN‘s Jack Cinnamond reports. BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend descended on Sefton Park, Liverpool, and in doing so, delivered a weekend that…

Dream-pop newcomers Sunday (1994) inspire devotion on their first headline tour. With BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend dominating the music scene in Liverpool this weekend, it would be easy to overlook shows taking place at local venues. Far away from the crowds at Sefton Park, the Arts Club Loft provides an intimate setting, perfect for…

Father John Misty returns to Liverpool ahead of his June show at the Olympia, with a stripped back matinee in the Baltic. While the new Father John Misty album isn’t anything fancy, and honestly, I don’t see it climbing very high in his discography rankings, it feels like it might end up near the bottom…

The purveyors of Act 1.5, a new climate change festival, and sonic activists Massive Attack brought their attention to Liverpool for the first time this past Friday, but will their groundbreaking performance be enough? Purveyors of Act 1.5, a new climate change festival series, and legendary trip-hop activists Massive Attack brought their sonic dispatches to…

A star is clearly in the making at Manchester‘s AO Arena this past Saturday, as Troye Sivan brought his biggest tour yet. We’re in a great age of pop again, with a breath of fresh-air brought by freedom, from the likes of Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, taking storm as new-age icons, Troye Sivan…

Akron, Ohio’s very own rock n’ roll duo The Black Keys return to a packed AO Arena in Manchester for their Dropout Boogie Tour.

Father John Misty returns to Manchester, armed with his usual array of cynical, witty storytelling and his latest album, Chloe and the Next 20th Century. Father John Misty, the storytelling voice of Joshua Tillman, has spent his career over the last eleven-or-so years being the witty cynical marmite for the millennial generation, but it’s been…

Possibly the most unexpected sight tonight in Liverpool’s Invisible Wind Factory was the queue for the gents, noticeably longer than the queue for the ladies. That a band like Dry Cleaning would attract such a volume of middle-aged men with weak bladders could easily be the topic of one of their songs. The surreal nature…

The Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers tour concludes its European run in Manchester, as Kendrick Lamar proves why he’s perfectly rated at where he is. Jack Cinnamond reports. The show opens with a small set by Tanna Leone, a Big Steppers feature, that does the job at welcoming the crowd, a couple of tracks…

The legendary Bob Dylan, and his band, return to the O2 Apollo in Manchester for an evening in-support of his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. Jack Cinnamond reports. It’s been several years since the legendary Nobel Prize winning icon Bob Dylan toured the UK, and it was a time-and-place much different than today. Dylan…