GIG GUIDE – NOVEMBER 2025

With Winter in full swing, November is looking to be an incredibly exciting month in Manchester, with iconic acts such as Mac DeMarco and Lorde, to the sheer brilliance in more intimate venues such as Sunday (1994) and Model/Actriz. if there is one way of escaping the oncoming rush of Christmas, going to see some […]
For some reason, I can’t pinpoint how I first discovered Luvcat, the persona conjured by Liverpudlian musician Sophie Morgan. Somehow, “Dinner @ Brasserie Zédel” made its way to my headphones with this sprawl, a message of longing and image conjuring an opulent night in Soho, and I was promptly hooked. A quick delve into what […]

ALBUM REVIEW – LUVCAT: VICIOUS DELICIOUS

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 31 OCTOBER 2025

Anna Von Hausswolff                 Iconoclasts      Artist taking the pipe organ as her instrument of choice. On Iconoclasts, her sound evolves again, bringing a poppier and more vibrant element to her moving songs. Micah P Hinson              The Tomorrow Man      Americana/folk singer-songwriter presents a set of all new compositions beyond the long-lost country classic ‘The Last Train […]
FaT OuT Festival returns to Salford this November. They self-describe as a passionate champion of the underground, dedicated to discovering new music to produce captivating live shows for both artists and audience alike, aiming to promote a combination of challenging, intense, experimental, queer and downright rowdy music. FaT OuT Festival is their flagship event that […]

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ALBUM REVIEW – HILARY WOODS: NIGHT CRIU

Following two densely atmospheric instrumental albums, her latest record sees Hilary Woods making a welcome return to a song-based structure and giving primacy to her voice. ‘Night CRIÚ’ takes as its stated influences Czech and early Italian cinema, processions and parades, early music, indigenous language, the joy in dance, the immediacy of sound and the […]
Combining music genres in alternative music is very rare and, when it is done correctly, the results can be mind-blowing. Witch Fever, in their short career thus far, have always been aiming to push the boundaries of alternative music, by combining shoegaze esque soundscapes with heavier guttural vocals at times which sound like yells. Fevereaten […]

ALBUM REVIEW – WITCH FEVER: FEVEREATEN

LIVE IN PICTURES – GHOSTWOMAN: LEEDS BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB – 25/10/2025

Ghostwoman is a Canada and Belgium based duo who produce a potent brew of garage psych, country, Krautrock, blues and Americana. Following the September release of their seriously impressive ‘Welcome to the Civilized World’ album, they are on tour and came to Leeds Brudenell Social Club on 25 October. Mat Coffey was there to photograph […]
Jim Jones All Stars       Get Down ~Get With It – Jim Jones All Stars (Live)      Recorded live and pieced together by Jim Jones from live shows between 2023-2025, ‘Get Down ~Get With It’ perfectly captures the bubbling swamp curse of unholy rhythm and the frenzied fury of their live shows. The music, an intoxicating, exciting […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 24 OCTOBER 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – JESSICA MOSS: UNFOLDING

In the issue of 3 May 1982 of Libération, Serge Daney created a diagram showing different film directors in various parts of the body: Kazan, groin; DeMille, feet; Ozu, anus or bladder, etc. A year prior, as an ending paragraph of an article on Francisca by Manoel de Oliveira, he would add:  What can cinema? […]
After five years, Kevin Parker releases his fifth album ‘Deadbeat’. A chameleon when it comes to the creation of his music, as he states in an interview with Zane Lowe, “That’s always something that I get a kick out of: just shaking up expectations.”  Even with the everchanging sound, one thing stays the same; vibes […]

ALBUM REVIEW – TAME IMPALA: DEADBEAT