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Glastonbury Festival have changed their ticket system for 2025, adding a queue to purchases ahead of ticket sales going up next week. Anyone attempting to purchase festival tickets (on November 14 and November 19) will be automatically assigned a random place in the queue. Below is all the information needed for anyone planning to attend […]
Should we meet our heroes? Conventional wisdom says no, but for one County Durham drummer, the experience defied expectations. Just over a month ago, he spent “a magic couple of days” alongside one of his idols and one of the most recorded drummers in the world, Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie. A few months ago, 51-year-old drummer […]
Indie sleaze is a music genre popular from the late nineties to the early tens. Encapsulating elements of indie rock, club and pop music with pioneers such as the Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT and M.I.A. and even some early Arctic Monkeys. While the music industry is forever changing and growing with the times, sometimes […]
Live music can sometimes be described as incredibly euphoric and it certainly was last Friday (18.10.24) when Divorce headlined Newcastle’s Cluny for only the second time and their first set in the city since they supported Self Esteem at the BBC Proms Glasshouse takeover last year. Firstly, a personal note to add context, I used […]
Fresh off the announcement that they’ll be supporting Sam Fender on his People Watching tour this winter, Wunderhorse rolled into Newcastle for the final leg of their own Midas tour. As the Cornwall-based band took to the stage at NX Newcastle, they carried themselves with all the pomp characteristic of the great 90s rock bands. […]
Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died age 31, after falling from a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Emergency services said Payne fell into a courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighbourhood of the city. Payne, who was from Wolverhampton, had a son, […]
This year marks a decade since the pop-duo Rizzle Kicks graced the stage at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light. The one-day festival saw Rizzle Kicks take to the stage alongside a whole host of pop legends including Jessie J, Jason Derulo, and The Vamps. The Brighton-born pair were highly complementary of the North East. Speaking to […]
Sam Fender has taken to social media to tease the release of a third studio album. Fans of the North Shields born indie musician have been keeping an eagle eye on his social media accounts lately as he has posted several cryptic hints about his return to the studio. A link appeared on Fender’s Instagram […]
