“CRAP, CHRISTMAS COVERS” (A fine piece of alliteration. An awful concept to witness) I woke up early this morning with that awful thought in my [...]

Eleven bands for a fiver and free pies in one of our favourite venues. Newcastle second top of the premiership, for a few glorious hours [...]

How quick has this year passed by… I’m racking my head thinking of the new music I’ve most enjoyed this year… PJ Harvey is right [...]

“You can watch rafferty turn into a serial, You can watch rafferty turn into a serial, You can watch rafferty turn into a serial, It’s [...]

Welcome to the autumn collection by The Kids Are Solid Gold. Sorry we missed out on a review of Treetop Flyers but my computer’s been [...]

So ok… What’s this got to do with the Northernline?… Well I’m in Glasgow, Kurt Cobain loved a lot of bands from here … and [...]

Here we are again, back at one of our favourite events, Sunderland’s SPLIT Festival. Now in its third year, last year was great fun and [...]

In a usually quiet corner of West Yorkshire, the leafy Myrtle Park in Bingley bursts into life over the first weekend of September as music [...]

“Oh the rain falls hard on a humdrum town, this town has dragged you down” (William it was really nothing: The Smiths 1984) The rain [...]

“Have they had their Calpol? They’re all off their heads on Calpol!!!!” (Frankie & the Heartstrings commenting on the audience.) Now the drugs at most [...]