Sunnies are needed as the sunshine begins to pierce through the clouds as the Live At Leeds team debuts their brand new Temple Newsam Park Festival. Advertised as a multi-genre festival with a diverse and abundant body of artists set to perform. Some of those on the bill include Easy Life, The Vaccines, Sports Team, Sea Girls, Holly Humberstone, Arlo Parks and Finn Askew.
After days of cloudy weather, the music industry was met with blue skies and sunshine as they descended to the seaside town of Brighton for The Great Escape 2022.
Taking place across the city’s countless music venues, The Great Escape consists of new artists from all around the globe and is the perfect place to see the next big thing play before anyone else.
On the final night of his UK tour singer, songwriter Jake Bugg took to the stage of a packed out O2 Kentish town, opening the show with new fan favourite Lost, from this most recent album ‘Saturday Night, Sunday Morning’.
Alt-rock trio Dinosaur Pile-Up proved their continual popularity at their London headline show, which due to Covid-19, finally took place two years after it was originally scheduled, with herds of free-spirited fans from start to finish thriving on the enticing zest of the set.
As the sunset on an unusually warm Sunday evening, the maskless masses took to their seats at the London O2 Arena. We filtered through the isles of metal chairs on concrete flooring, welcomed by soundscapes of birdsong and soft glowing amber lighting. Having arrived uncharacteristically early I sat and listened. The birdsong subtly moved from America to Britain, across to south Europe. Amplified through giant monitors to fill the space, the size of the venue was striking. Ever the optimist, I’d describe it as half full.
On the last night of their two-week stripped back UK tour to promote their new album ‘Give me the future’, Dan and Charlie Barnes, from Bastille, shuffled onto a minimal stage in what I can only describe as ‘their comfies’, hoodie and cap.
Opus Kink, eclectic, grimy punk rockers, have announced their debut EP today, arriving this summer via Nice Swan Records, along with a brand new single ‘I Love You Baby’ released today.
Fred Again is to a millennial anxiety-fueled generation, a composer and visual performer that touches them in a way far deeper than his peers in the most humbling of ways.
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes were on a high from playing their headline show at Alexandra Palace when the world went into lockdown just under a month later. They had gone from being one of the UK’s most exciting live acts to not being able to leave the house, filled with pent up energy and frustration and looking for a way to release it. And the new album Sticky, the fourth album from the band, is the result.
Reading Festival, 3 days of non-stop music, giving a platform to some of the best musicians around now. As the festival returned for the first time in 2 years, the expectations and pressure were riding high. This had to be a pretty spectacular weekend. And let us tell you, it 100% was.
So here is our roundup of the stand out performances from the weekend. Hopefully, we’ll see you there next year.
