It was a bucket list night last night seeing Everyone Says Hi at The Railway Inn in Winchester. If you’re not aware of the band it’s the brainchild of ex-Kaiser Chiefs founding member Nick Hodgson who was also the key writer of well known and Kaiser Chiefs defining hits including “Ruby”, “I Predict a Riot”…
A full lineup of indie-rock at Heartbreakers on a Saturday night. I wasn’t expecting three acts, the addition of Skäl on the night was a welcome surprise. They kicked the night off with a wave of guitar that made the entire room turn and take notice and just kept going! This alternative rock band from…
It was off to Bournemouth last night to see the Happy Mondays again, I last saw them back in 2024 with a slightly different lineup but you know what to expect, a great gig was imminent! First up was The Farm from Liverpool. I first saw them back in 1991 for The Spartacus tour in…
Yes, 35 years ago today, the alternative rock band R.E.M. that you would have to be literally living under a rock to not know released their seventh studio album, the defining masterpiece, “Out of Time”. Released on March 12, 1991, the ‘at the time somewhat cult’ band overnight went from being that band that had…
If you do not know these names and you see them advertised at a local show or you just come across them streaming you should stop and take a look, there some great music to be found. Ekoh is a rapper from Las Vegas, currently touring the UK with Ryan Oakes, a rapper from Los…
Let’s start off with the elephant in every gig goer’s room, “Dynamic ticket pricing is a strategy where ticket prices change in real-time based on demand, supply, time until the event, and other factors. Commonly used in air travel and by companies like Ticketmaster, it aims to maximize revenue by increasing prices for high-demand events…
The Music Venue Trust and The National Lottery have announced ‘Everywhere At Once’, billed as The UK’s Biggest Festival on what would normally have been Glastonbury Festival Weekend which would see 210,000 revellers, workers, artists and performers enjoy a week of music. Imagine if that many people got involved with grass roots venues across the…
To give the title to this post some context, I have been a fand of the Foo Fighters since the beginning, post-Nirvana with the release of the self titled Foo Fighters in 1995. The first 8 albums are still on a sporadic regular rotation of mine, at least a slection of tracks from each of…
I don’t know how I missed this yesterday on the main UK media channels but my phone seems to have caught up with the world and my feeds informed me that LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER is UK’s Eurovision entry for 2006. I will be watching this year, previous years, for as long as I can…
Released on this day 40 years ago, 17 February 1986, The Colour of Spring is the third studio album by English band Talk Talk, written by Mark Hollis and producer Tim Friese-Greene. The Talk Talk albums that came before it had much more of a synthesized pop sound, synthesizers are rarely featured on the album, being replaced by guitar, piano, and organ….
