Public Service Broadcasting – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 13th

“Please allow me to introduce the band”. Thus spoke J Willgoose Esq. “It won’t take long”. Whilst there was an honourable mention for their projectionist Mr B, Public Service Broadcasting the band is...

Live at Leeds - 4th May 2013

Live at Leeds is all about making choices. Faced with a grand total of 147 acts appearing at 15 different venues, all spread out over a mile and a half diameter from the Brudenell Social Club in the north west of...

Deer Shed Festival – 19th to 21st July 2013

It is now lunchtime on Friday the 19th of July 2013; cue a triple cause for celebration. School’s out, here comes the summer and the fourth annual Deer Shed Festival is just about to begin. Set in the tranquil...

Cody ChesnuTT – The Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 21st March 2013

Wearing his regulation blue Vietnam Vet-style combat helmet and decked out in a red cardigan and white T-shirt with vintage compact cassette motifs printed on the front, it is very easy to see why the words...

Rest In Peace Jason Molina

On the evening of Saturday 16th March 2013, Jason Molina’s body finally packed in. Drink had done for him. He would not see his 40th birthday. His will ultimately be a very small footnote in the wider history of...

PREVIEW: YO1 Festival - Knavesmire, York, 5th May 2013

Circle Sunday the 5th of May on your calendar and then set the controls for the heart of the Knavesmire in York.  For that is the time and place of the second annual YO1 festival. This year it has relocated to...

Marc Ribot – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, 14th March 2013

This was a most rare opportunity to catch Marc Ribot - composer, musician and long-time artistic collaborator to a veritable who’s who of luminaries from Tom Waits to Susana Baca to John Zorn - performing solo...

Wilko Johnson – Holmfirth Picturedrome, 8th March 2013

Wilko Johnson is dying. For the man who was born John Wilkinson more than 65 years ago in Canvey Island, the end is suddenly nigh. Diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas in December of last year, he was...

Bowie: Sound and Vision and the Xperia™ Z

Almost ten years and not a word and now he is practically everywhere. First there was one single, then there were two and then before you knew it, the very next day if you will, an album. There was even some talk...

Johnny Marr – The Duchess, York, 5th March 2013

The ghost of The Smiths will forever follow Johnny Marr around. Like a spectre at every banquet where he feasts, it will constantly be there as both a blessing and a curse. What other band or artist in the last 30...