LIVE REVIEW – LOYLE CARNER: VICTORIA WAREHOUSE – 23/11/2025

Tackling the blistering cold and puddles that coat the cuffs of your jeans, we make our way to Victoria Warehouse. The queue is set up like Takeshi’s castle and a great feeling of accomplishment overcomes the body before the strip search takes place. Tickets scanned and patted down; we walk through the door where we […]
Victoria Warehouse has always been one of my favourite venues. The exposed brick, the industrial charm, the rawness of it all – it’s the kind of place that brings out the best in a band. Or at least, it should. When Wet Leg first burst onto the scene, they were electric, weird, witty, offbeat and […]

LIVE REVIEW: WET LEG – VICTORIA WAREHOUSE: 29/05/2025

LIVE: CAGE THE ELEPHANT – 19/02/2020

-VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER- Before heading to see Cage the Elephant at the Victoria Warehouse, I was told: “if they aren’t in your top five live bands after tonight, I’ll be shocked”. I took this with a pinch of salt, but boy, have I been proven wrong – and I couldn’t be happier for it. Off […]
-VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER- It’s that time of year again, The Libertines are on tour. It’s been the same program more or less for the last five years for the likely lads: a few festival slots during the summer and then a lovely tour of their home ground at the back end of the year. Last […]

LIVE: THE LIBERTINES – 10/12/2019

LIVE: HOT CHIP – 25/10/2019

-VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER- Somehow I’ve never managed to see Hot Chip live, despite them being one of my all time favourite bands. I was, like many, caught hook, line and sinker by the majestic ‘Over & Over’, that monkey with its miniature cymbal burrowing its way into my brain like the world’s most potent ear […]
-VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER- This year is proving to be an extremely ambitious one for Foals; with a two-parter album release and an on-going World tour, the Oxford four-piece are ruthlessly solidifying their status as headliners. After the March release of Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part. 1 received critical acclaim, it’s clear that this […]

LIVE: FOALS – 11/06/2019

LIVE: JAMES BLAKE – 07/04/2019

-VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER- If you’ve listened to James Blake’s beautiful new album Assume Form, read any interviews with him recently or looked on any social media about him, you’ll know one thing: James Blake is fully loved up. His relationship with actress and all round hero Jameela Jamil appears to have fundamentally changed Blake’s outlook […]
-VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER- “This is a punk rock show, which means that there are no rules. Except for don’t be an arsehole and if you know the words to a song, you’ve got to fucking sing along!” The somewhat heartfelt speech from the matured punk rocker Frank Turner gives a taste of what to expect […]

LIVE: FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS – 25/01/2019

PJ HARVEY ANNOUNCES UK TOUR

PJ Harvey will play 17 headline dates across Europe later this year, including a show in Manchester. Following the April release of her UK #1 album The Hope Six Demolition Project, PJ Harvey returned to the world stage last month for the first time in 4 years, starting a summer of festival shows with an acclaimed headline […]
– VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER – What a difference a year makes. I had a fantastic time at Cosmosis 2015, despite feeling as though I was at an illegally organised psych fest in a crack den… in fact, maybe it was partly because it felt like an illegally organised psych fest in a crack den. The Victoria Warehouse […]

LIVE: COSMOSIS FESTIVAL – 12/03/2016