Sheffield’s biggest music festival is set to return to Hillsborough Park from 21-23 July, just a month after Arctic Monkeys will be playing their hotly anticipated shows in the same location. Here are five of the acts from this year’s lineup that we’re the most excited about seeing… Read the list over on The Indiependent.
I spent a lot of last night thinking of iconic pairings. Gin and tonic. Wine and cheese. Chilli and chocolate. Coincidentally, all great breakup remedies – but not quite as good as the experience of a Maisie Peters and Cate show in Sheffield, it has to be said. There are a lot of tired cliches about how life on … Continue reading Live Review: Cate + Maisie Peters // The Leadmill, Sheffield, 18.04.23
After a brief but soporific intro that sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack to Interstellar, Spector’s long-awaited third full-length release Now or Whenever launches into ‘Catch You On The Way Back In’, the single that heralded the part-time outfit’s triumphant return in June last year. This is quintessential Spector for fans of their frenetic debut, Enjoy It While … Continue reading Album Review: Now or Whenever // Spector
I’m sitting on my own, it’s 2021. The lights are falling like snowflakes over the stage. I see it all through an iPhone 12 filter, as the woman in front lets out an excited squeal, her cheeks decorated with cheap golden glitter. There are no holes in my recollections, time has stopped and is perfectly … Continue reading Live Review: Manic Street Preachers // Manchester O2 Apollo, 02.10.21
Having lived down south for the past five years I regrettably hadn’t been to Sheffield’s Tramlines festival since it relocated from the city centre. Although it took me a while to get my head around the fact that cans of Red Stripe cost £6 (I may as well still have been down south), as a … Continue reading Tramlines Festival 2021 Highlights
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This article was originally published in The Indiependent's May 2021 issue, available to purchase here. TikTok queer icon girl in red released her debut album if i could make it go quiet on 30 April via AWAL. The Norwegian artist—real name Marie Ulven—insisted in an interview with HYPEBAE that: “The record is not a conceptual … Continue reading Album Review: if i could make it go quiet // girl in red
This article was originally published on The Indiependent Tomorrow Ed Cosens makes his debut onto Sheffield’s music scene with solo album Fortunes Favour, having hereunto forged a successful career as a guitarist and co-songwriter in Reverend and the Makers. Reverend and the Makers are known for their rousing working-class anthems, with the band’s artistry often overshadowed by frontman … Continue reading Album Review: Fortunes Favour // Ed Cosens
This article was originally published on The Indiependent When Charles Darwin sat down to write On the Origin of Species I’m going to hedge my bets and say that he didn’t anticipate the figure described in ‘Modern Man’, the first track from Death By Unga Bunga’s raucous new album, Heavy Male Insecurity, out today (12 February) via Jansen Records. … Continue reading Album Review: Heavy Male Insecurity // Death By Unga Bunga
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