We were watching Celtic Connections a couple of months ago, when Emma Pollock appeared on the screen and blew us away. You remember The Delgados, right? Well, Emma was the singer and guitarist, and for the last few years she’s been releasing brilliant solo records on the seminal Chemikal Underground label. And, this year, she […]
Manic Street Preachers are in town tonight. The town is a place they love, too, as the band’s affiliations and affections with Liverpool go back a long way. Libraries may have given them power – but it was this city that gave them their inspiration. By Tom Carroll. Back in May 1997, Manic Street Preachers […]
Turn off your mind, relax and float down to 24 Kitchen Street. Submotion Orchestra are in town next week – the ‘project’ that has grown from a jam night or three in Leeds, to a group whose fourth album has drawn comparisons with Jamie xx and London Grammar. Intrigued? You should be… they sound nothing […]
The Little Flames, The Rascals, Miles Kane, The Last Shadow Puppets… how many chances does one artist need? As the new TLSP album drops, and Kane and Alex Turner are back in town for a sold-out gig at the Olympia, we have a look for what we’ve all been missing. By Alan O’Hare. It’s nearly […]