Tag: music

• UK MUSIC INDUSTRY: Autumn Budget

  Oct 28

  The big takeaway from Sunak’s plans is the spending increase of £150 billion, a 50% discount on business rates for music venues – as well as pubs, cinemas, theatres, restaurants,… more ›

• Sam Fender: “Seventeen Going Under” album review – emphatic spark of adolescent angst

  Oct 26

  A competent, clean and coming-of-age tale for Sam’s sophomore album. Candid tellings with thoughtful lyric-work interlaced with anthemic guitar tonalities, Sam Fender’s journey to the promised land is a rarity… more ›

• Don Broco: “Amazing Things” album review – a dazzling return to the lights

  Oct 23

  Forever unique and diverse, the four-piece tribesman of Don Broco return with their 2018’s Technology follow-up of Amazing Things. Usually, after a relentless success-story of a prior album, bands often… more ›

• Project Revitalise: More than a third of UK music industry workers lost jobs in 2020

  Oct 20

  The number is 69,000 in total. Due to the crippling financial devastation that COVID caused on the music industry and UK Music, it’s certainly Project Revitalise for our music industry… more ›

• Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes: ‘Sticky’ album review – raw and energetic, Frank’s back

  Oct 19

  Unapologetically chaotic, ‘Sticky‘ is a pressure release sharing talks on the dirty and the depraved during lockdown. With accommodating – and somewhat feral – guests, enter Frank’s town … if… more ›