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A new location (at the Showground, Battlesbridge Antiques Centre), a slightly different format, yet still the same warm welcome, plus of course their accustomed array of top bands and artists. There are music festivals, and then there is Undercover Festival - a place where those of us who love alternative music will always make new friends, while discovering great new Continue Reading

Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl hosted The Rock N Roll Circus at the end of August - photographer Phil Thorns caught Sam Scherdel, Lady of Mars, Sleeper, Weave, Girlband, The Lilacs, The Kairos, The North, Jamie Webster, Arkayla, Matt Felix, Embrace, Somebody's Child, Frankie Beetlestone, Ocean Colour Scene, Freddie Halkon, Chanel Yates and James on Day 4!Continue Reading

Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl hosted The Rock N Roll Circus at the end of August - photographer Phil Thorns caught Cruz, Sunburst, The Outcharms,The Rosadocs, Steve Edwards, Lottery Winners, The Ramona Flowers, Rosie Alice, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât, Everly Pregnant Brothers, The Denabys, Groove Armada, Precious Papala and Reverend and the Makers on Day 3!Continue Reading

Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl hosted The Rock N Roll Circus at the end of August - photographer Phil Thorns caught Deco, Long Island, Charlie Floyd, Sundress, Newton Faulkner, Bethany Grace, The Crookes, Mel C and Femur on Day 2!Continue Reading

Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl hosted The Rock N Roll Circus at the end of August - photographer Phil Thorns caught Jehnny Beth, Fat Dog,The Bug Club, So Good, Freak Slug,Viagra Boys and Queens Of The Stone Age on Day 1!Continue Reading

From London and Brighton, Old Chase are a skate punk band who are releasing their third album ‘At The End Of All The Thrills’ on 3rd October 2025. Consisting of 11 short tracks, the longest is their last track ‘Endgame’, at 2 minutes 47 seconds. They may be brief, but each song has a lot of energy and passion! Fast, melodic, hardcore, rapid, aggressive, and catchy as fuck!Continue Reading

Out of the ‘biz’ for some time, Polly b Rose don’t look back. Their debut energetic, exciting, wonderfully excess free album 'Moltencholia' is 10 songs in 35 minutes, and it’s amok with emotive rhythms.Continue Reading

Following their album ‘Doll’, released on 28th March this year, Liliths Army are unleashing their next single ‘Cursed’ on 24th October 2025, via Criminal Records, with the music video fittingly being released at 10am on Halloween (31st October 2025). It’s one of my personal favourites from the album, haunting, powerful, passionate and emotional. So much expression, Continue Reading

With Subhumans iconic logo, rapid-fire, hard-hitting lyrics and breakneck speed, crunching guitars, the band still stands out as one of the best anarcho-punk bands to come out of the early 80s. Supported by BarrelHaus, an alt-rock duo from Oxford. The dual guitars and vocal sharing duties work well here, producing a solid wall of sound that makes them sound like a far Continue Reading

The Let’s Go’s are pure musical joy. From the moment they kick off with the euphoric pop-punk rush of ‘In My Head’, the Japanese trio bounce around the stage with carefree abandon; they clearly love what they do, and it’s as if they can hardly believe that they’re so far from home and still drawing a decent crowd.Continue Reading