INFLUENCES: Civil Villains

2000 Trees Festival 2025 – Saturday

LIVE: 2000Trees Saturday

We’re older and wiser as Saturday dawns across the Cotswolds; our suncream is applied, the clashfinders have been checked, and we’re ready to kick the final epic day of Trees into gear! Words: Kate Allvey and Rob Dand  //  Photos: Penny Bennett and Paul Lyme Gen and the Degenerates “Cool is

LIVE: Download Festival 2023 – Saturday

Dust. That’s the name of the game. On the hottest day of the weekend, with not a drop of rain in site and tens of thousands of people making tracks towards the water and merch lines now fighting for their life, Donington has gone from a verdant green field

Top 25 Albums Of The Year

LIVE: Alexisonfire / Boston Manor / Higher Power @ O2 Academy Brixton

After releasing their first studio album in over a decade, it’s fair to say this is the most excited fans have been to see Alexisonfire in a long time. Armed with an album’s worth of new music, as well as old favourites, tonight’s Brixton headliner is a

Alexisonfire @ O2 Academy Brixton

Alexisonfire – ‘Otherness’

About ten years ago, Alexisonfire broke the hearts of the post-hardcore adoring masses all over the globe when they revealed that they’d be going on an indefinite hiatus. A band that had touched and inspired a generation of misunderstood and misrepresented youth, coming to a gut-wrenching halt in

Slam Dunk North 2022

LIVE: Slam Dunk Festival 2022 @ Hatfield Park, Hatfield

The sun is finally promising to shine through ominous clouds, music lovers have dusted off their Doc Martens, flannel shirts and checkered Vans and festival season is back, baby – for real this time. A week later than usual thanks to the Queen’s jubilee, alternative kids congregate