Live Review: Reading Festival 2018
With an ever-growing level of diversity, Already Heard’s Ffion Riordan-Jones and Bec Simpson headed to the Reading Festival to see what the annual August Bank Holiday event had to offer.
7th September 2018
With an ever-growing level of diversity, Already Heard’s Ffion Riordan-Jones and Bec Simpson headed to the Reading Festival to see what the annual August Bank Holiday event had to offer.
If ‘Summer Is A Curse’ is supposed to be the spark that makes The Faim the “next big thing”, then it’s a failure.
‘Glue’ serves as a truly solid debut album and shows more than enough promise of what EMP!RE could do
Petrol Girls remind us strength and resilience can be brought to the surface on ‘The Future Is Dark’
‘The More I Sleep The Less I Dream’, perfectly marries WWPJ’s traits to create perhaps their best album yet.
On a pleasant Tuesday night in Nottingham, alt-rock legends The Used descended upon Rock City for the second date in the UK leg of ‘The
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Counterparts are underselling ‘Private Room’ as it’s something they should be proud of.
Uncompromising on all levels, ‘Welcome to the Neighbourhood’ is layered, intriguing, and grows with each listen
Aspiga show why they’re worth keeping an eye on with this irrefutably impressive set of rarities
The new look Skyharbor head in a different direction on ‘Sunshine Dust’, resulting in their best album so far.
There is still a lot of life and creative energy within El Ten Eleven as ’Banker’s Hill’ feels like the product of natural creation
an album of steeped layers and immediate hooks, both of which sink soul deep
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ArcTanGent really has something for everyone as it caters to many different palettes.
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Wilson trade chaotic hardcore for party songs bursting with moments of mass appeal
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Unfiltered, shimmering party rock, with no strings of pretention attached… Bad Rabbits are back
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