If you haven’t come across Radiator Hospital, Google will tell you that they are either ‘one of America’s greatest rock bands’ or ‘Michigan’s oldest and largest providers of automotive heating a…
News: Josh Newell-Brown’s Living Room Gigs
What could your living room do with? A new rug? A bigger telly? A coffee table that doesn’t have those weird yellow stains from that one time you spilt a takeaway tub of tarka dhall everywhere? …
Feature: Musicport on the Moors
From the organisers of Musicport festival comes Musicport on the Moors for four days of music, storytelling and discovery this month. While the original Musicport festival takes place within Whitby To…
Gig Preview: An Evening with Gary Lucas (Jeff Buckley/Captain Beefheart) at The Cluny, Newcastle
If you like your guitarists innovative, genre-spanning and downright prolific, you’d be well-advised to pop along to The Cluny this month to catch ‘An Evening with Gary Lucas’. To date, Gary has relea…
Comedy: Shoe Cake Comedy’s 1st Anniversary at Musiclounge, Stockton
Shoe Cake Comedy celebrates its 1st Anniversary in Stockton with no fewer than eight talented comedians on the bill for a night of free comedy. On its usual monthly slot on the first Thursday of every…
Gig Review: Little Comets at 02 Academy, Newcastle – 21/04/2018
As their final gig of the tour, and taking place in their hometown, I was expecting nothing but greatness from Little Comets’ show at Newcastle’s o2 Academy. With the venue packed full and the atmosph…
Gig Preview: George Ezra at Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
George Ezra is heading to Pickering’s Dalby Forest on Sunday 24th June as part of Forest Live. The ‘Budapest’ singer-songwriter is set to play a whole host of gigs throughout the coming year and now f…
Gig Preview: Pericopes +1 at the Globe, Newcastle
Following a well-received appearance at Gateshead’s International Jazz Festival back in 2016, Pericopes +1 are returning to the North East on Sunday 6th May courtesy of the Jazz Co-op at the Globe. Fo…
Review: Tom Mouse Smith – ‘What Did You Expect’ Single
Tom Mouse Smith is quickly emerging as not only one of the youngest singer-songwriters in the region, but also one of the most talented. The 14-year-old’s latest single, ‘What Did You Expect’, sees hi…
Gig Review: Gengahr at Think Tank?, Newcastle – 21/04/2018
Almost exactly three years to the day after catching my eye supporting fellow indie rockers Circa Waves at Newcastle’s Riverside, Hackney-based outfit Gengahr were back in the North East, this t…