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Comprising of a full day of music in multiple venues across the city centre, Stag & Dagger is an unmissable event for any Glaswegian music enthusiast. Beginning at 19:00, the...

The folk singer Harry George Johns started his set at Birthdays with a poppy Josh-Grobany sort of sound, which was far too emotive for a Tuesday evening and far too faux-American...

The young woman sitting a few feet away in the train carriage, talking into her mobile phone about her evening, was in raptures: “While we were singing the songs, the...

“Hi, we’re Young Rival from Ontario Canada. We very happy to be here and we’re going to play you some rock’n’roll,” frontman Aron D’Alesio tells the upstairs bar of...

I tentatively enter the side door to the Stiff Kitten, an establishment not in the past known for it's hosting of - for want of a better word - "alternative" gigs. Such is my...

Photos: Ross Scott Running hot on the heels of recent album 'The Dreamer's Stadium', The Plea roll into Belfast to ply their stadium rock in The Empire, a venue noted for not...

  Using this as a festival warm-up for The Great Escape and Reading/Leeds, as well as a launch for their forthcoming single ‘Oh…Lucifer’, Madame Jo Jo’s is a...

Taking the stage at Heaven amid the tumbling, picked guitar intro of ‘How’, The Neighbourhood cast the same monochrome image that characterises their music videos and press...

Darwin Deez's songs are of the smile-inducing chirpy sort that are remarkably familiar to me due to their little place in my "Cheer up, things aren't so bad" package (nestled...

Photo: Nick Collings Not their first London show, but one eagerly anticipated nevertheless given it was the launch of their debut single, and for the Oz trio Dark Bells it was a...

Photo: Gina Shanks Personally speaking, it’s always a bit of a heart-sink affair finding three or four (sometimes even more) supports on a bill, meaning that there can be up...

The average age of the crowd is somewhere in the 50s. What makes you want to rock’n’roll all night when you’re in your 50s? A new knee? Paying off the mortgage? Or a rare...

As I walk up the stairs in my search of the stage I realize how relaxed The Old Blue Last is, a pub like any other from the outside but completely different once you wander...

Thomas Koner Generally speaking, we all like a twist of the avant garde sprinkled into our pop. Perhaps without even realizing it. A touch of jarring weirdness in our...

Photos: Dan Massey Following a long touring schedule, which has seen the Watford trio support the likes of Bon Iver, The Staves settled into London’s historic Scala for two...