Category: Live

Some concerts are able to capture your entire imagination just for a second, some for a long time. To kick off Sound City 2017, The Human League captured ours indefinitely.  First up, where A Certain Ratio. Walking out to a very empty looking crowd, with the size of the site. It could be enough to…

Last night (22nd), Manchester Arena was the scene of a horrific terror attack following a suicide bomber explosion that has currently left 22 people dead and over 50 injured.  The attack to place at the foyer area of Manchester Arena shortly following Ariana Grande‘s encore of her performance.  We’re deeply saddened by this horrible attack…

Last night, iconic metal legends Iron Maiden made their return to Liverpool after almost 27 years for a heavily anticipated show. Shaun Ponsonby went down to catch Maiden in action.  It has been a long time since Iron Maiden played Liverpool – a fact referenced by frontman Bruce Dickinson on stage. By our calculations, Eddie…

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…