Field Music began life in 2004 as the project of Sunderland brothers, David and Peter Brewis, along with at times various members of The Futureheads and Maximo Park. They released two albums (including Tones Of Town, described by Marc Riley as the best album of the last 30 years) before going on hiatus in 2007.  [read more...]

Girls Names from Belfast are a band that slipped under my radar, mind you with the amount of music on offer at the moment that isn’t hard. I’m glad I’ve now discovered them as their debut album, Dead To Me, is a joy. It’s easy to see where their influences lie, but how many bands  [read more...]

The 13th of June sees The Haunt welcome Future Of The Left back to Brighton for the first time in far too long. Formed in 2005 from the ashes of post-hardcore weirdoes Mclusky and electro-metal riff merchants Jarcrew, the band released their debut album Curses two years later to the delight of critics and fans  [read more...]

After a brief visit to The Haunt to see Flip Grater (pleasant enough but you get the idea after one song) and an even briefer visit to the Green Door Store for Fiction (average sounding indie-rock), Day Two of the Great Escape was kicked into life with the most jaw-droppingly brilliant gig of the festival  [read more...]

Bank Holiday Monday’s Metal all-dayer at the Hydrant was home to mass personal hygiene dysfunction and general strangers to the bathroom. My God. The stench. However, it was a full-on, bollocks out, rock and roll event for fuck’s sake. It’s good to see the scene has no intention of cleaning up its act. Zodiac and  [read more...]