LIVE REVIEW – WOLF ALICE: MANCHESTER ARENA – 28/11/2025

As Ellie Rowsell takes centre stage, megaphone in hand, my view is once again blocked by a man scurrying to the bar – a confused mind who thinks beer is more important than listening to one of the most alluring front-women of the 21st Century. I’m not ashamed to admit that hearing “Yuk Foo” live […]
There’s something almost poetic about seeing The Last Dinner Party inside Aviva Studios, the cavernous, concrete warehouse that Factory International has turned into a kind of blank canvas for big, theatrical ideas. Tonight, the space feels less like an industrial arts hub and more like a forgotten churchyard: mossy rocks scattered across the stage, rusted-looking railings, fabric and ropes hanging […]

LIVE REVIEW – THE LAST DINNER PARTY: AVIVA STUDIOS – 26/11/2025

ALBUM REVIEW – JANE REMOVER: REVENGESEEKERZ

‘Dreamflasher,’ the sixth track on 22-year-old rapper/singer/producer Jane Remover’s third studio album, Revengeseekerz, begins with the satisfying whistle that plays when you cross the finish line in Mariokart DS. The listener is then bombarded with an onslaught of noise, including a sample of their own 2024 track ‘Flash in the Pan,’ that sounds like Remover […]
As album releases diminish to a trickle, December is a good time for Silent Radio to catch up on some of the seriously great albums we were unable to cover at the time. First up is Emma Pollock’s ‘Begging The Night To Take Hold’ which was submerged by the end of September rush, pretty much […]

ALBUM REVIEW – EMMA POLLOCK: BEGGING THE NIGHT TO TAKE HOLD

LIVE REVIEW – ROYEL OTIS: VICTORIA WAREHOUSE – 28/11/2025

Getting into the O2 Victoria Warehouse was business as usual, bag search, body scan, ticket check then to find the nearest bar; only this time I wish I hadn’t. For a single drink it set me back nearly ten whole Great British pounds, physically hurting my soul and my bank. Do they know we are […]
As TTSSFU hit Salford’s White Hotel with their scuzzed up dream pop and dark basslines, Mat Coffey was down the front capturing the action. Here is the night in pictures, the last two shots being of support acts Lonnie Gunn and Maximillian Tanner respectively.

LIVE IN PICTURES – TTSSFU: THE WHITE HOTEL – 27/11/2025

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 28 NOVEMBER 2025

Red Ivory           Please Leave, I Need To Wake Up Now            Five track EP is claustrophobic and at points almost static, before freeway-falling into a frenzy of interlocking, distorted guitar, howling vocals, and thrashing cymbals. Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter               Forever I’ve Been Being Born  A suite of emotive songs from an open heart, dwelling […]
There are many ways people get excited for a gig, for some it may be that first step into the venue and seeing the stage, for others maybe waking up on the day knowing there is a gig that night, for me, however, it was when a pair of luminous foam earplugs were plonked in […]

LIVE REVIEW – MY BLOODY VALENTINE: AVIVA STUDIOS – 24/11/2025

ALBUM REVIEW – PAVEY ARK: MORE TIME, MORE SPEED

There’s no shortage of bands making music that circles around the theme of time’s passage, so why should you care about Pavey Ark? Because when Pavey Ark talk about time, they don’t talk about hours, days and years: they talk about epochs. More Time, More Speed sees the band pushing their psychedelic-tinged folk sound further than […]
Björk once described Ólöf Arnalds as “somewhere between a child and an old woman.” Clearly, this was not intended as an insult and it neatly encapsulates the charms that she brings to her fifth album, ‘Spíra’, which translates as Sprouts. Sometimes those polar opposites in age have similarities. The honesty and openness of childhood can […]

ALBUM REVIEW – OLOF ARNALDS: SPIRA