Pluck Shame’s Charlie Steen from the blood-thirst of the bull-pit into the decadence of the ballroom and you have Walt Disco’s pirouetting, shirtless, tartan-pant wearing frontman James Potter, whose tremulous, death-on-the-dancefloor, Billy Mackenzie-esque vocal typifies the glamour and flamboyance of…
Growing up in a Dutch family running a pioneering music blog, Amsterdam-based Pip Blom had a revelatory experience when her mum took her to see Parquet Courts some six years ago. Pip, inspired by the band’s energetic but sophisticated guitar…
Sports Team are an ambitious bunch. The six piece from London have played solidly for the last 18 months and have become one of the UK’s most exciting live bands. Frontman, Alex Rice and co will headline the Electric Ballroom…
Pulsing, singular synths, eviscerating, razor sharp guitar and a trip into a different world that you won’t actually want to find your way back from, this is Scalping. Combining the caustic force of their penchant for heaviness with the indelibly…
Haze might first come across as a young and charming post-punk band with one of the loosest and most urgent live shows in the game. But dig a little deeper into what is going on inside the minds of these…
The Orielles have always been a band with a thirst for adventure. They see a genre they like, dismantle it, withdraw the parts they desire and re-mould it in to something entirely their own. Their debut album, Silver Dollar Moment,…
From Issue Fifteen, December 2017 Chilli Jesson has spent the last year watching Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, absorbing the music of Ennio Morricone and watching the UK’s fertile music scene evolve from a far, biding his time and waiting to…
Antonio Giovanni Pinna is an illustrator based in Milan, Italy. Antonio, won our fourth illustration competition in September with his amazing Beatles entry which was featured in our eighteenth issue and will be displayed at our winners exhibition later this…
Copenhagen’s prodigal sons have returned from a hiatus spanning four years- and judging by the direction the world has tilted in since their 2014 opus Plowing Into the Field of Love, they have emerged at the perfect time to soundtrack…