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Fresh off the back of being named ‘Best Band in the World Today’ at the Q awards on Monday; Muse turned up on Saturday with everything still left to prove. The 2nd Law was hailed by some as their best album; others (myself included) said it was their worst—but yet everyone expected this tour to […]
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There’s a lot of hype surrounding Palma Violets which is no doubt why a crowd started to gather outside The Joiners well before doors were due to open, despite the freezing temperatures. Most of the people there had already seen Palma Violets—a vast majority saying they’d seen them at Reading—so people sort of know what to […]
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Two years ago, I remember watching an SBTV video that had just reached a hundred thousand views and today Suffolk singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has reached global success with a quadruple platinum debut album, several awards under his belt and performances at the Queens Jubilee and at the Olympics. Say what you want about him but […]
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“We’re immensely proud of this record, we feel it is the best thing we’ve done so far. And can’t wait to share it all with you”. Southampton musician Seán McGowan delivers his acoustic music in a folk/protest/punk style, described suitably as “The People’s Music”, also the title of his next E.P (debut E.P, ‘McGovernment’ was […]
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Queue girlish scream of excitement. I’m not going to hide the fact that I am well and truly a Mayniac and proud of it at that! This date has been circled on my calendar since Conor Maynard released his tour dates earlier this year. Excited isn’t quite the adjective. Over the past eighteen months Conor […]
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Born in Lima, Peru, raised on the streets of Harlem during the rise of hip-hop and now…playing in Southampton? Last week, Felipe Andres Cornel aka Immortal Technique, one of the most successful independent hip-hop artists in the world, played to a packed out crowd at The Cellar. Refusing to ever sign to a label, Technique […]
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Following the release of her third album The Haunted Man, Bat For Lashes will play at the Pyramids Centre in Portsmouth this Saturday. With 3 albums under her belt, 2 of them being Mercury Music Prize nominated, Khan is sure to play a mix of her most compellingly enchanting tracks such as ‘Daniel‘, ‘What’s A […]
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Dog is Dead have been growing from strength to strength after their prestigious appearance as an unsigned act at Glastonbury in 2010 that catapulted them into the limelight. Since then they have been working on their debut album All Our Favourite Stories, which was released earlier on this month. Dog is Dead will be gracing […]
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My second trip to the Joiners couldn’t have been filled with a better night of music. I had the opportunity to chat with Ralph Pelleymounter and Josh Platman from To Kill A King before the show (interview coming soon on The Edge) and they seemed very excited to be returning to The Joiners after their […]
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After several inevitably sweaty gigs at The Joiners, Glaswegian band Twin Atlantic return to Southampton for their penultimate gig of their current tour. After having a number of their own small venue headlining tours and supporting the likes of Blink-182, My Chemical Romance and Biffy Clyro, Twin Atlantic are soon to start their biggest venue […]
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I arrived at the joiners and interviewed Ben and Rosie from BIGkids just before their show. Getting to chat to them before really got me excited for the show as they were so much fun to chat to. They came out on stage, Mr Hudson donning the now famous BIGkids crown (not unlike those you […]
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Everything from Strategy Wanks to Pimpin’ of the mediocre kind. The Midnight Beast have it all, and gave it all, to the crowd at Southampton’s Guildhall.
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Every Time I Die are not a band, up until this point, that I had had the pleasure of seeing live. Our festival paths have never crossed and whenever they were playing London whilst I was living there, I always either had a ticket and then subsequently couldn’t go (curse you 9 a.m. A-level maths exam!) or […]
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NME tours have the reputation of being slightly haphazard in whom they put together; they just put bands they like in the mix and hope that it works. It’s had some unusual outcomes (most recently having Azealia Banks on the same line-up as Two Door Cinema Club) but this time, NME may have just stumbled […]