Allow me, if you will, to get on my soapbox and shout about all the bloody brilliant music that has come out this year. If you’re willing to listen – not to me mind, to the music – you will find that 2019 has been one of the best years of the decade and as the 10s draw to their eventual but inevitable close, join me as we look at my top 20 (ish, I cheated) albums and five EPs of the year.
Somehow we’re veering towards the end of the Summer at an almighty pace. We’ve just finished one festival (ArcTanGent) and we’re now gearing up for another double header in the shape of Reading and Leeds – so we’ve themed our playlist feature this time around accordingly. With Reading and Leeds just a handful of days…
Straight from our man on the ground at ArcTangent 2019, Sam Savigny, here are the highlights of an excellent first day at the festival! Administering a different form of potent emotion were Ithaca. Where The Beft traded in the joys of life, Ithaca expel the bile inducing rage of one thousand angry punters, which pretty…
‘We’re called Curse These Metal Hands’ said Matt King’s Super Hans in an episode of Channel 4’s Peep Show when referring to his band completed by Robert Webb’s Jeremy Usbourne. Seemingly they are two halves of disparate nature; one, a placid and feckless layabout, the other, a typhoon of methamphetamines and hallucinogens. The same cannot…
Bloodstock aren’t the only festival who’ve dropped a whopper of an announcement today. ArcTanGent, Bristol’s wonderful collection of postrock, shoegaze and hardcore bands merged into a three day festival near Bristol (taking place the week after Bloodstock, in case anyone wants to do both), have unleashed an almighty festival announcement. They have added a gigantic…
