Even before tonight’s show at the O2 Institute chants of “Easy Easy Easy” could be heard around the building. In the past you may have heard it when attending a show from Leicester’s previous biggest exports Kasabian, but now its reserved for its future megastars Easy Life. Continue reading Easy Life @ O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK – 2nd November 2021
Exactly two years to the day Tom Grennan busked in the City Center, Bedfords finest finally returned to the city of culture for a special sold-out album release show at the HMV Empire. Continue reading Tom Grennan + Frankie Beetlestone @ HMV Empire, Coventry, UK – 22 October 2021
Five nights sold out in London, two in Manchester, and now two in Birmingham all within two months. Only one rising UK artist could pull this off, and that person is rapper and pop punk king Yungblud. Continue reading Yungblud + renforshort @ O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK – 14th October 2021
As one of the most incendiary live acts around, it’s hard to see their ascent to stardom stopping here. Continue reading Fontaines D.C. + The Altered Hours @ O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK – 11th October 2021
Normally the large ques outside of the O2 Academy are a sign of an act playing the main room, but tonight it was the second room that had the que snaking around the block as indie pop sensation Boy Pablo played his first ever show in Birmingham. Continue reading Boy Pablo + FUR + Jack Frohlich @ O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK – 17th September 2021
Whenever you go to see the Specials expect the following three things, pork pie hats, checkered shirts with suspenders and a lot of former skinheads. I hadn’t even got to the que at the O2 Academy before I ticked off all three. Continue reading The Specials + Pete Williams @ O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK – 16th September 2021
In a weekend stacked full of music in Coventry, who would have ever believed the most exciting act would have been upstairs at the Litten Tree. Continue reading Crack Cloud + Military Genuis + DJ Jimmy Decent @ The Litten Tree Building – ( ‘LTB’ ) Showrooms, Coventry, UK – 2nd September 2021
Chants of “Miles, Miles, Miles Fucking Kane” could be heard through all the Kasbah even before the man himself took to the stage. Continue reading Miles Kane + Brooke Combe @ Kasbah, Coventry, UK – 27th August 2021
They always say that the third time’s the charm, and that’s what all the patient ticket holders were hoping for on Wednesday. Continue reading Sam Fender + Heidi Curtis @ O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK – 25th August 2021
Everything Everything had gigs at Cardiff Castle, The Hundreds cricket, Old Trafford and Boardmaster’s on the schedule within a single week. With a line up like that you might expect them to play safe at their smallest show squidged right in the middle at Coventry’s Kasbah. A que of fans lined up outside decked in old tour t-shirts, little did they know they were about to catch the band bringing their A game in this small setting. Continue reading Everything Everything + PARADE @ Kasbah, Coventry, UK – 13th August 2021
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