The Sound Of Settling

Dutch Uncles Begin Brief Winter Tour

7/12/2023

Manchester’s Dutch Uncles may well be one of the most underrated British bands of the last decade. Their edgy take on indie pop draws in influences from across the generations without ever feeling anything other than entirely unique. ‘True Entertainment’, their sixth album coming some six years after their last, was...

Vinnie Caruana Makes UK Return

2/12/2023

In The Movielife and I Am The Avalanche, Vinnie Caruana is in the unique position of fronting not one, but two of the most important bands of the 00’s punk scene. In a milestone year for the former, their seminal ‘Forty Hour Train Back To Penn’ was unleashed two decades ago this year, Caruana is back on British shores...

Dream Nails Tour 'Doom Loop'

26/10/2023

Dream Nails have now been in and around the punk scene for close to a decade; their feminist anthems manage to combine catchy choruses, brutal social observation and shredding riffs and the live show is a chaotic and inspiring cacophony. After the release schedule, and subsequent touring, was heavily impacted...

Brand New Friend Take 'Grandstand' On Tour

3/10/2023

Derry’s Brand New Friend first burst on to our radar with tracks like ‘Why Are You So Tired?’ and ‘I Was An Astronaut’ from 2018’s ‘Seatbelts for Aeroplanes’. Covering a broad range of genres in just over half-an-hour, it announced the arrival of a young Irish band bristling with an urgency to deliver snapshot anthems for a...

Dream Wife Tour 'Social Lubrication'

28/9/2023

We have been keen followers of the Dream Wife trajectory since we first saw them destroy The Night and Day Café over half a decade ago (2017, to be exact) and it’s been delightful to see their evolution into megastars since that initial interaction. On that cold, wet January evening, the trio exploded from the tiny...

Paris' En Attendant Ana Begin UK Jaunt

27/9/2023

Parisian quintet En Attendant Ana have a certain brooding energy which fits well with a band who recorded their debut EP (‘Songs From The Cave’) in a French cellar in the course of just one day. Theirs is an electricity which allows them to straddle meandering folk influences while bristling with the kind of college radio...

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