I want to talk about the song ‘It’s The Inside That Counts’ by Phil Weeks. I first heard it in Jackmaster’s most recent XLR8R mix, when it blew my socks off – and I haven’t […]
A Chorus Line – hold on to your sparkly golden hats, the West End is coming to Leeds
The Stage Musical society hold a concrete reputation for being one of the best performance societies around, and they certainly maintained that incredible reputation in their latest production of A Chorus Line. Director Sophie Roberts […]
Interview – Getting to Know On Rotation
Like the rotary movement that their name suggests, On Rotation’s approach to putting on a night is revolutionary. But it is revolution through simplicity. “The premise behind On Rotation is being able to have a […]
Freeview Flicks of the Week: The King’s Speech, Now is Good and A Lonely Place to Die
In the Middle’s best weekly freeview flicks picks is here! This week we find that life is sweet, discover a lonely place to die and admire Colin Firth. MONDAY – Life is Sweet (Film4 01:45) […]
That 70’s show
The easy-breezy days of the seventies are a Go-go! Flares, fringing, and crazy pasileys inject equal doses of glamour and bohemia inot this Spring’s fun-loving aesthetic. A warm, earthy palette blends with tactile materials; anything […]
Earth @ Brudenell Social Club 22/2
The genius of Earth doesn’t lie in its riffs, though they are abundant. Out of context there’s little to be excited by in the riffs themselves, they’re just riffs. Uncomplicated to a tee, accompanied by […]
Glass Animals @ Belgrave Music Hall 4/3
With pineapples and palm trees at the ready, Glass Animals entered the Belgrave with a tropicana agenda. The half hour delay only builds the suspense, but eventually the unmistakable tropical rainforest sounds of Glass Animals wash […]
Father John Misty @ Brudenell Social Club 27/02
Since I saw Steps on their farewell tour, there have been very few bands that have rendered me raspy from screaming their words back to them from the crowd. Josh Tillman a.k.a Father John Misty […]
Projections by Romare
Footsteps echo down a corridor as synthesised waves rise uniformly from the cloudy day outside, at some point becoming indistinguishable from the drops of water that bounce from the windows. Rising, falling, rising again; taking […]
Pearson Sound by Pearson Sound
Hessle Audio are currently marauding around the UK on a huge headline tour. It was a very satisfying moment to see them come home to play to a packed out Wire in January, and reflect […]
In The Middle with Anathema
Love and beauty are two very important concepts genuinely dear to Anathema – just listen to their latest record Distant Satellites if you want proof. But you could say this of most bands and artists […]
Gig Guide w / 13th March 2015
Friday 13th March Fred P at Wire, £9 Butter Side Up return with another sterling transatlantic import. Radioland: Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity Revisited at Belgrave Music Hall, £10 An audio-visual treat as the German pioneers’ seminal 1975 […]