2000 Trees – Thursday

LIVE: 2000 Trees 2024 – Thursday

It’s July, this year’s festival season is fully underway now, and we find ourselves back in scenic Cheltenham for the ever-wonderful 2000 Trees Festival. One of the alt world’s most beloved summer festivals, this year’s bill is crammed full of up and coming talent arena-filling giants, all gathering at

LIVE: Manchester Orchestra @ Union Chapel

Never has a show fitted a venue more perfectly than Manchester Orchestra’s set at Union Chapel. From the moment that the opening lines of ‘I Know How To Speak’ open a chasm into our emotions and frontman Andy Hull’s falsetto notes swoop and soar up to the bare-boarded gothic

An Evening with Manchester Orchestra @ Academy 2, Manchester

Manchester Orchestra – ‘The Valley of Vision’

By now, it’s commonplace for Manchester Orchestra not to be a routine band. Ever since 2017’s ‘A Black Mile to the Surface’, frontman Andy Hull, lead guitarist Robert McDowell, bassist Andy Prince and drummer Tim Very, have branched out from their indie rock roots. ‘The Million Masks of

Top 25 Albums of the Year

Every Time I Die – ‘Radical’

It’s been a long, long time since we last got a full length album from Buffalo hardcore legends Every Time I Die – five years to be exact – but that wait is finally over. After sharing their first taste of new music towards the end of a

Foxing – ‘Draw Down The Moon’

Here’s the trick to conquering the music industry – reinvention. The reason the likes of Bowie, Dylan and Madonna are so revered is because they’re able to reinvent themselves multiple times to become relevant again. Like a snake shedding its skin, it’s the change in either image or sound

Manchester Orchestra – ‘The Million Masks of God’

It has been almost four years since Manchester Orchestra released their stunning, if slightly under-appreciated, fifth album – ‘A Black Mile to the Surface’. For some, the prospect of them delivering a worthy follow-up was going to be a difficult task for the Atlanta group. Nevertheless, Andy Hull

Manchester Orchestra, Slothrust @ Church, Leeds