Belgrave seemed overly dark this Friday evening as Dilettante stepped on stage to shine a smoke-filled light on the room’s blank canvas with their hazy saxophone loops and scatty vocals, pulling the audience into a […]
Barn on the Farm Preview: The Annual Musical Pilgrimage You Don’t Want to Miss, 04-07.07.19
Whilst it is only March, the countdown to festival season has well and truly already begun. By now, lineup investigation has firmly become part of library procrastination, and visions of hay fever tears sparkling in […]
In the Middle with Callum Spencer
On the 27th February, strangers and friends alike gathered in the underground labyrinth that is Wardrobe to watch an evening of music headlined by Seafret. The crowds gathered early to get a good spot and […]
In the Middle with Seafret
Nestled in the corner of the bar on top of the soon to be packed out Wardrobe I sat down with the nations arguably most underrated ballad composers, Seafret, to talk about their new music, […]
Cub Sport Glisten at Headrow House, 20.02.19
Sometimes the support artist steals the whole show. Niall Summerton’s slow crashing surf embraced all that touched their toes into the band’s melodic waves. With only one song released to date, the Yorkshire native has […]
Perth’s Methyl Ethel Get Bogged Down In Their New Album, Triage
Triage is the aptly named third album from Jacob Webb’s pleasure project Methyl Ethel formed out of the decimation of his rock band Sugarpuss. Borrowing heavily from the glittery pop of the 1980s and soundscape […]
Australia’s Hottest New Artists
It’s hard to imagine with the snow hitting the ground outside the window that on the other side of the world the sun is blazing a sizzling 40 degrees. Yet, over in Australia, the rather […]
The Gryphon’s Best Albums of 2018
Ask a crowd of 500 people what their favourite album of 2018 was and you’ll get 500 different answers, because there was just that much good music which came out this year. From the return […]
Cosmo Sheldrake Is Undescribable at Belgrave Music Hall, 24.11.18
Legend has it that music has the power to transform the world around us and distil it into sweet audio joy. No other artist would slave through the US military sound bank to find the […]
Shakey Graves Shakes the Roof Off Brudenell Social Club, 14.11.18
From the self-knitted flowers stitched to support band Petal’s guitar strap, to Shakey Graves’ homemade suitcase kick drum, last Wednesday truly encompassed the essence of Brudenell Social Club as the home of musical grafters and […]
Bill Ryder-Jones’ New Album is No YAWN
Bill Ryder-Jones returns with his best album to date. Yawn is the culmination of a seven-year solo career and a pained existence, moving his beautifully depressing guitar music into a much deeper dimension. Together these […]
Novo Amor and Anna Leone Entrance Brudenell, 19.10.18
The Community Room in Brudenell truly lived up to it’s name last Friday night as the crowd sought shelter from the cold Leeds night in the warm-hearted musical blanket of Anna Leone and Novo Amor. […]