/An Afternoon of Indie

After our November event sold out more than 6 weeks in advance, An Afternoon of Indie returns this January to bring you another…afternoon of indie. Old School Indie – The indie night for the over 30s are once again joining forces with Feeling Gloomy & Age Against The Machine to bring you a special 3pm-7pm […]

/Zero Club – Grunge, Geek Rock, Riot Grrrl & Gen X Anthems

★★★ GRUNGE // GEEK ROCK // RIOT GRRRL // 90’S GENERATION X ANTHEMS ★★★ £4 advance from redcardinalmusic.com £5 before midnight // £6 after Nirvana // The Pixies // Pearl Jam // Weezer // Nada Surf // The Melvins // Smashing Pumpkins // Hole // Presidents Of The USA // Stone Temple Pilots // No […]

/DIG! Club Night

DIG! returns to Paper Dress Vintage playing the finest rock and roll, indie, psych, soul, funk and everything in between spanning 70 years of cool. Arctic Monkeys – Gorillaz – Death Grips – Curtis Mayfield – The Rolling Stones – The Jam – Aretha Frankin – Jefferson Airplane – Shirley Ellis – The Coasters – […]

/An Afternoon of Indie

After two hugely popular events already this year, An Afternoon of Indie returns to bring you another…afternoon of indie. Old School Indie – The indie night for the over 30s are once again joining forces with Feeling Gloomy & Age Against The Machine to bring you a special 3pm-7pm Afternoon of Indie. Taking place at […]

/Feeling Gloomy in the 90s

We were all feeling quite gloomy in the nineties so why not relive those years with a Feeling Gloomy 90s special? Expect an extra dose of moody tunes from the likes of Pulp, Suede, Nirvana, Manic Street Preachers, Blur, Placebo, Hole, Elastica, Radiohead, REM, Weezer, Nine Inch Nails and more. Ease your woes with our […]

/An Afternoon of Indie

After our sold out event at Lower Third in May, An Afternoon of Indie returns to bring you another…afternoon of indie. Old School Indie – The indie night for the over 30s are once again joining forces with Feeling Gloomy & Age Against The Machine to bring you a special 3pm-7pm Afternoon of Indie. Taking […]

/Welcome to the Future/193/Events, Livestreams and new releases 05-Nov 2021

Now away from the working week for a bit, it has given me time to start catching up. It is, again, Bandcamp Friday today, so along with last week’s releases, there’s an awful lot to cover today. In the meantime, here’s the usual wrap of new music and suchlike this week.

/Welcome to the Future/188/Events, Livestreams and new releases 17-Sep 2021

Stay-In-Fest and the Bank Holiday are already in the rearview mirror, and we’re now inching toward autumn, and the usual packed release schedule as things ramp up again. Today I bring you a fully updated events listing, a host of releases today on Bandcamp Friday, and the first of my interviews from Stay-In-Fest fully transcribed. […]

/Tuesday Ten/446/Want More Need Less

There was a clear pattern to pretty much all of the suggestion threads that I initiated last year. In one way or another, they mostly linked to the situation we found ourselves in: our normal way of life upended, unable to travel or socialise in the usual ways for most of the past year. That […]

/Tuesday Ten/429/Some Guys Have All The Luck

This year really has felt, in some ways, like the world has run out of luck. A pandemic, a succession of hapless, right-wing Governments manipulating just about everything in their favour, and the general feeling that it is going to be a long route out of this.

/Tuesday Ten/426/War on Error

Last Friday was the nineteenth anniversary of the September 11th (or 9/11) attacks, four near-simultaneous aircraft hijackings by terrorists in the US that resulted in an enormous loss of life, and has since stood as a marker of our age, and that has influenced US foreign and domestic policy ever since.

/Tuesday Ten/418/Twenty-Five Years Gigging

Twenty-five years ago yesterday (20-July 1995), I made it to my first proper gig. I headed over to Roundhay Park in the north-eastern edges of Leeds, along with tens of thousands of others, to the first night of the Heineken Festival that year, ostensibly to see Pop Will Eat Itself, but that evening I also […]

/Tuesday Ten/401/Isolation

As a number of people in comment and meme form have joked this past week or two, this isn’t the dystopian future we were promised. But it’s the one we’ve got, and it is remarkable how certain outlooks have changed. Certain political policies that were ridiculed just three months ago have become instantly popular – […]