Idlewild live in Oxford review: “We were last here back in 1998. It’s the only gig we ever played topless”
Review: Idlewild live in Oxford, April 14, 2026 - a delightfully dynamic set spanning thirty years of hits and high energy early album cuts.
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Review: Idlewild live in Oxford, April 14, 2026 - a delightfully dynamic set spanning thirty years of hits and high energy early album cuts.
ArcTangent Festival 2026's line-up has an array of exclusives, reunions and final performances - including Primus, Chelsea Wolfe, Cult of Luna with Julie Christmas, and Napalm Death!
Keaton Henson is known for being a 'quiet boy' introvert but his new single is grungy, loud and unflinchingly honest. What gives?
The story of Hot Face at Abbey Road Studios: a whirlwind recording session
Julian Taylor tour with Michele Stodart? Interested. That line-up and Michele Stodart, Raevennan Husbandes, and Siân Monaghan as Taylor's backing band? Now we're REALLY interested!
The winter 2026 tour will be the most ambitious of Squeeze's 53 year career, and will unite two Ivor Novello award-winning musicians under one bill.
Nathan Evans & The Saint Phnx Band's Heather On The Hill Festival - part of Edinburgh Summer Sessions in August 2026 - will foreground Scottish talent & family fun.
The Darkness UK tour 2026 will not just be huge, it will bring bands of brothers together - The Darkness themselves plus Brothers Osborne and A.
A new single, new album and a December 2025 Skinny Lister tour - find communion through music with folk/punk shanty singalongs and drinking songs plus a flagon of rum to…
The Kneecap Crystal Palace Park show on June 27, 2026, will also showcase The Mary Wallopers, Fat Dog, Biig Piig, Gurriers and Madra Salach. Hold on to your balaclavas!
The new Mavis Staples album spans seven decades of the American songbook and her career's been longer than that!
The Dreaming Spires showcased Normal Town - "an album with a unified story to tell and a picture to paint" - and an extended encore of greatest hits.
Corinne Bailey Rae is ready for an epic 2026 with two live albums, a children's book, and a celebratory anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall!
Neil Young, Kings of Leon, Counting Crows, and many more - see you there? Details here!
Two Christmas Trees by Dylan Scott: a multi-generational tribute to children of divorce and to Scott's own father who co-wrote the song in the 1980s.
Huge news for punk rock fans: The Offspring Crystal Palace Park show on June 28, 2026, will also feature Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, PUP, and Destroy Boys.