In the sunny hills of the Cotswolds is a little slice of punk rock heaven, all the things we hope for from the festival ...

Spends most of the time at The Horn in St Albans managing shows, or shooting gigs in London. Big fan of Australian Indie according to Spotify.

With each release, Calva Louise are maturing and demanding more from their listeners. Each song packs in at least five different songs, but there’s never a pressure to analyse what’s happening. You ...

A Day To Remember hit the stage like they’ve been shot out of a cannon. No easing in, no slow burn, just bang, straight into the chaos with ‘The Downfall Of Us All’. Jeremy McKinnon’s voice sounds ...

Victory fills the air as day three of Download dawns: we made it! We lived, laughed and slammed our way through the greatest ...

First time around, the Nu-metal era was all a bit embarrassing. Old music was dead, the weird kids were cool and there was a frenzied embrace of something new. Everyone wanted a piece of the pie, the ...

In four hours time, Mike Davenport will play his first show in the UK for a decade. That might rattle some, and there will be more than a few nervous faces onstage in the Monster Energy tent over the ...

Slam Dunk South; traditional kick off to the UK festival season, it delivers the elusive festival highs and global lineup that sets the bar for the rest of the summer. A political undercurrent cuts ...

Twenty two summers in, and Download shows no sign of ever slowing down. With a lineup to thrill everyone from hardcore slammers through to pop punk kids, the biggest weekend of the year channels the ...

If you’re going to retire as a band after two and a half decades, you may as well do it in style. When Hundred Reasons announced a Royal Albert Hall spectacular last summer, we had no idea that it ...

In Norse mythology, the Kraken was a sea monster. A mega-sized octopus that would terrorise sailors and imperil ships. Kings are of course powerful and majestic, they have an air of regal grace. This ...

Andrew Falkous deserves your support. He’s an artist. Check out his blog, it’s a treatise on self-sabotage. For better or, more frequently worse, he will make the choice that allows him to make music.