If 2012 was a ‘meh’ year of some good British records and nice debuts by a handful of promising artists, 2013 will be forced to do better, not only because there’s no massive international event to distract us (yes Olympics, I’m talking about you), but because our overseas reputation for music is currently being...
Emmy The Great has been added to the line-up for the Truck Festival, which will already feature The Temper Trap, Mystery Jets, Villagers, and The Low Anthem among many others. Emmy, who played at Hill Farm in 2008 and 2006, is one of a number of late additions to the line-up that have caught...
Remember Michele Stodart? Sure you do, she’s the bass player from mid-noughties indie-pop heroes The Magic Numbers. Michele has been playing solo shows around London for a while now, and is soon to release her debut album, The Wide-Eyed Crossing. You can hear a few tracks from the new record exclusively, here: On the...
This gig did not start well, given that the average height of the audience seemed to be about 6’2”. As someone who normally can’t stand those idiots who prefer to enjoy gigs through the screens of their cameras and iPhones, we found ourselves strangely grateful to the man in front, whose tiny digital screen...
Och that’s nice. The lovely Conor O’Brien from Villagers has won an Ivor Novello Award today for “Best Song Musically and Lyrically” for ‘Becoming A Jackal’, the title track of his debut album. He was up against Foals and Everything Everything in the category, which has been won in the past by Lily Allen and...
As an Isle of Wight native, I’ve seen Bestival grow from a small, sparky young thing in 2004 to the vast, fiery dragon it is today. I worried that my favourite festival was about to grow so big that it would collapse in on itself, like a soufflé. Thankfully, a new site layout meant...
1. Prolific cult band Guided by Voices have announced they are to tour in the US in October and November. Having been enthralled by Roddy Woomble’s stories of GBV’s live show when we interviewed him last year, I’m desperate to see them play, so let’s all write to Mr R Pollard, Dayton, Ohio, The...
Our photographer about town, Georgie M'Glug, reports on the folkier side of Latitude.... Demure and unassuming as ever, but with a new-found fire in her belly, Laura Marling commands the Obelisk Arena on Friday night
Fresh from their Mercury Prize nomination Villagers will be performing in the Tunnels at the Old Vic theatre on the 4th and 5th of August. They will be the first ever musicians to play in this newly opened up, quirky but cosy sounding space directly under Waterloo station. These are Villagers first London gigs...
Villagers have been around for a wee while now, causing hubbub in the most remote corners of the music world, one such corner being the little known TV show, ‘Later… With Jools Holland’. Playing to a full to the brim Deaf Institute in Manchester, Conor O’Brien and his band proved why they are next...
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