Thursday, May 23, 2013
Funeral For A Friend’s sixth album ‘Conduit’ is the follow-up to 2011’s critically acclaimed ‘Welcome Home Armageddon’, an album which saw the band approach their music with renewed vigour following the addition of new members Gav Burrough and Richard Boucher. ‘Conduit’ also features the addition of drummer Pat Lundy (previously of Rise To Remain) following [...]
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There are some quite literally blinding* gigs coming up in Cambridge this year. Here are a mere ten to look out for, if your vision remains intact. (* Not literally.) ULTRASOUND Once touted as the great hopes of British indie, they imploded in the 90s but are back with more epic soundscapes. Sat 9 Feb. [...]
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Birmingham-based art rockers Peace have had a good year so far, supporting the likes of Mystery Jets and the Vaccines, releasing a well-regarded debut EP ‘Delicious’ and generally being compared in favourable terms to anyone and everyone from Vampire Weekend or Foals to Arctic Monkeys, but without really sounding like anyone but themselves. Jordan Worland [...]
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They’re back. Phil Oakey, Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catterall – more commonly known collectively as The Human League – are on tour to mark a rather incredible 35 years since they first formed amid the industrial landscapes and soundscapes of late 1970s South Yorkshire. Their appropriately-titled XXXV tour reaches the Corn exchange in November, [...]
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Cambridge’s one day festival of alternative music fun and games is back this month with a line-up that’s so bursting at the seams it needs three different venues to contain it. Wish You Were Here (named for Cambridge heroes Pink Floyd’s musical tribute to Syd Barrett, and curated by city-based promoters Green Mind) encompasses three [...]
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If you like your rock heavier than a blue whale who’s been overdoing the lunchtime visits to Greggs lately, you’ll probably love a bit of the Devin Townsend Project, who are coming to The Junction this month. Canada-born Townsend has amassed all manner of plaudits in the rock and metal worlds over the last couple [...]
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October! More Cambridge gigs than you can shake a rhythm stick at! Here are a few to look out for… KATZENJAMMER Hyperactive Nordic women, who’ve gone down a treat at the Folk Festival and Lodestar in recent times. Thurs 25 Oct, £9 adv. Junction, Clifton Way. Katzenjammer go mad in Scandinavia… AL LEWIS Singer-songwriter from [...]
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Folk-pop troubadour Benjamin Francis Leftwich is back in Cambridge this month for a headline gig at The Junction, following an acclaimed set at the Folk Festival in July. Thomas Talibudeen of Cambridge music website Slate The Disco caught up with him…making his second visit to Cambridge in the last few months. Did the Cambridge Folk [...]
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To say that the music industry has changed over the last thirty years would be akin to saying that Team GB did ‘quite well’ in the Olympics. The fact is that the business landscape in the digital era has changed irrevocably and seen many bands shy away from the previous obvious route of major label [...]
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The word ‘rock’ is a pretty all-encompassing musical term, encapsulating everything from the intensity of hardcore metal to the more relaxed stylings of the folk-rock genre. Cambridge Rock Festival, which this year takes place on the first weekend in August, is a well-loved annual gathering of music fans that celebrates rock in all its various [...]
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