Category: Live

Paramore moves into a new dimension with their pop oriented return and knocks it out the park, Pip Johnson has the review.  Anyone who was expecting Paramore’s fifth album to sound anything like 2007’s Riot will surely be disappointed with After Laughter and have clearly missed out on 2013’s self titled album, but those who…

The Hampshire psych trio Is Bliss have revealed the video for their latest single “Into a Dream” from their upcoming EP The Honycomb Explosion. The trio have debuted a swirling new single that introduces the band’s strong throwback sound to the 60s counterculture movement that inclines bands like the Electric Prunes and Strawberrry Alarm Clock. …

Sound City is getting close now and to celebrate this year’s tenth anniversary festival, we’ve decided to drop our top ten acts you can’t miss this year.  Our top ten acts you can’t miss for Sound City 2017 doesn’t feature any side show acts or non-preforming acts. Standby for our full preview out next week…

The rise of Queen Zee & The Sasstones now at full-force with the release of the band’s debut single “Sissy Fists”, SFN’s Pip Johnson reviewed the single and gave us more. Today, local punk rockers and our friends in Queen Zee and The Sasstones released their debut single “Sissy Fists” through Nice Swan Records. The…

Synthpop greats Future Islands step into a sold out Academy for a show only they could throw, SFN‘s Jack Cinnamond got the skinny. Arriving just before 8pm, the O2 Academy already looks a bit fat, droves of people all in their talking circles, usual pre-game deeds, but it comes to a fine halt as support…

FestEVOL Gardens 2017 is nearly upon us, bringing 33 of the best acts into the Invisible Wind Factory on Sunday for one of the best all-dayers in recent memory.  Taking place across three stages in the IWF, FestEVOL Gardens will showcase 33 bands, all of which, are of the highest grade from us.  The main stage…

Great director Jonathan Demme has passed away aged 73 after over four decades in the motion picture industry, which not only did Demme win the Best Director Oscar in 1991 for his mesmerising work on Silence of the Lambs, but he also provided great visuals to the music world. While Demme‘s career started in the…

Providing a new festival space for all things a little off, very weird and wholly loud, WRONG Festival brought a debut year like no other festival can.  With a mixture of bands creating loud noises and experimentations in three locations, our team (who also arrived late) spent time walking round the three venues to gather…

On a soaking Friday evening, our staff photographer and occasional writer Pip Johnson went down to EGBGs for a night of pure noise as Loner Noise presented a night co-headlined by OHHMs and Hark. First act of the night was Welsh rockers Gravves who played a short and pleasant set, featuring songs of their debut EP…

Threshold has come by us once again, what a weekend once again filled with some amazing sets and some that seriously blew our minds, here’s our review of Threshold 7. The weekend opens at Unit 51, the creative hub for all things Threshold and basically the centrepiece of the Baltic Triangle, and our first act…