As the Monday morning sun rose across the fields of Bramham park, illuminating the skeletons of abandoned tents and burnt-out fires, the scene looked more like a battlefield than the aftermath of Leeds Fest 2016. […]
Secret Garden Party Review: The hippie utopia proves that smaller festivals can be just as exhilarating as their bigger cousins
Secret Garden Party (SGP) might be small, but it is a perfectly-formed festival situated in the heart of Cambridgeshire. Attracting big-name acts, rising stars, and a whole raft of brilliant food and drink stands as […]
Festival Review: Victorious Festival, Portsmouth, 27-28/08/16
The UK festival scene might be known for its name-grabbing giants like Glastonbury and V Festival, but last weekend saw one of the UK’s lesser known festivals, Victorious Festival, prove that you don’t need the […]
Blonde by Frank Ocean
What comes to mind when you think R&B? Rhythmic grooves, layers of auto-tune? Perhaps a drunken 3am boogie to ‘Ignition’ by R. Kelly? Or maybe, as a fellow anxious soul, you expect a man who […]
Music News: Bon Iver Releases Two New Tracks
Last night, after five years under the radar, Justin Vernon announced the release date of 22, A Million, his third studio album under the guise of Bon Iver. Prior to a performance of both old […]
Mint Festival Preview
In the overcrowded promotional scene of Leeds there is one team which stands prominent over the general melee. Mint’s stranglehold on the club scene through Mint Club and Mint Warehouse have provided some of the […]
For All We Know by NAO
NAO is 31 years old and has just released her debut album, For All We Know. This follows months of hype, several well-received singles, and a packed-out Glastonbury set on the Park Stage this June. […]
Nubiyan Twist @ Belgrave Music Hall 28/5/16
Exactly 6 months after their last show in Leeds sold out, Nubiyan Twist are set to play Belgrave Music Hall this weekend to launch their EP, ‘Siren Song’, which is out on the 27 th May. […]
Preview – The Garden Party 2016: Part 2
It’s an exasperating conflict between the desire for summer and the necessity to work. That haunting episode, ‘Exam Season’ is in full swing, and highlighters and 4 Bic pens are doing their best to weld […]
In The Middle with Meridian Dan
“I never called it Grime” On a rather sleepy pre-exam season Friday afternoon, In The Middle spoke to Meridian Dan, London MC and Grime artist, who gave us the 2014 hit ‘German Whip’, to talk about […]
In The Middle with Sundara Karma
Sundara Karma are a four piece Indie-Pop band from Reading. At between 19 and 20 years old they have already started to gather quite a following. I caught up with Oscar and Haydn from the […]
Helter Seltzer by We Are Scientists
It’s pretty much ten years to the day that We Are Scientists released their infamous Indie Rock anthem, ‘Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt’, which encapsulated all that was to love about the genre. Fast forward […]