Music

Any seasoned festival goer will know the yearly schedules like the back of their hand. Dusting off their well-worn wellies for every major festival that hits the UK and worldwide alike. But is your diary set for the 9th September 2017? OnBlackheath popped its festival cherry in 2014, and now in its fourth year, the festival has grown in strength and following. And with the likes of Travis, The Libertines and Jake Bugg headlining over the weekend, the festival sponsored by...

If life hasn’t thrown you a few curveballs over the years, you probably aren't doing it right. Who wants to tread the straight and narrow route down a predictable path when a few diversions here and there can liven things up? If any band knows a thing or two about curveballs – and, more crucially, how to knock ‘em out of the park – it’s Glasgow hard rockers Gun. Hit albums and singles, break-ups, line-up changes… Gun have done them...

We’re at Broen Studio in Bergen. Øystein Braut, Njål Clementsen, Anders Bjelland and Øyvind Hegg-Lunde have locked into a groove that never seems to stop. Their bodies are swaying in time with the music, their heads are eagerly shaking to the song that’s pumping out of the room, and it seems like they’ll never get out of it. Maybe they don’t want to get out? It’s a little more than one year since Electric Eye released their second album, 'Different...

In what must have been the best-value gig in London of the evening, Friday night saw a trio of the country's most exciting punk crop roll through the shadowy confines of the Old Blue Last. First up, Bloody Death kept it wavy in a low-key run-through of some Rock On, Aged cuts, sounding like a stormy Seahaven, followed by an intense Meggie Brown, bathed in red light and thoughtfully seething behind her mic. Brighton's Birdskulls meanwhile are following in the...

Rolo Tomassi have announced their only UK headline show of 2017. The band will play The Borderline in London on Saturday November the 4th, with support from Conjurer. You can pick up your tickets for the show here from 10am today! The show follows the bands slots at 2000trees and Tech Fest festivals earlier this summer. The band have also teased at new material on their site: www.lovewillburyit.com, so expect an airing of fresh material.

A pensioner who received a love note from Jimi Hendrix after charming the rock icon at a 1967 gig is now selling the letter at auction for an estimated £3,000. Anthea Connell, 69, was handed a signed guitar strings packet after catching the eye of the American rock legend at a concert when she was a stunning 19-year-old. She was with her then boyfriend Eddie Cooke - whose Sons and Lovers band were supporting Jimi at the Boston Gilderdrome in...

It was soggy, then it was sweltering, then it was soggy again. On the weather front at least, August 2017 was as typical a British summer as you could get. Lucky for us, then, the release calendar was a proper scorcher. The last 31 days saw new releases from our favourite pranged-out rapping chef Action Bronson, hangdog pomp from John Lasseter's leathery squeeze Randy Newman and a vital-sounding new cut from Queens of the Stone Age. EMA is our new...

UK-based singer songwriter Sam Harrison has released a full version of the viral Jeremy Corbyn chant with new verses and musical backing. The artist, who claims to have played the 2012 Olympics, the Edinburgh Fringe and Glastonbury festival naked, released the song after crowds across the country embraced the White Stripes tune in support of the Labour Leader. Lyrics include, "the entire Tory party couldn't hold me back" and "the feeling coming from my bones says affordable homes".  Watch the video in...

The music of Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit will be celebrated in a one-off concert at the London Palladium this November. The show, which takes place on 12th November, will cover the most memorable moments from across the world’s of Middle Earth and the Seven Kingdoms, with the stunning musical accompaniments performed live by a huge orchestra. Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi began creating the music for the show in 2011, with most...