Summer Streets Festival is back at Cliffe Park for two days of free music, art and culture. Featuring headliners: Smoove and Turrell, Lizzie Esau, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Royal Northern Sinfonia, along with Paul Smith (of Maximo Park), The Cornshed Sisters and many, many more. Checkout their website for full details: summerstreetsfestival.com No tickets […]
The Chameleons (called The Chameleons UK on some American releases) were an English post-punk band that formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England in 1981. They consisted of singer and bassist Mark Burgess, guitarist Reg Smithies, guitarist Dave Fielding, and drummer John Lever (replacing original drummer Brian Schofield). The core quartet were sometimes augmented live by […]
The Yummy Fur came out of Glasgow in the early 90s fusing angular ice-cream van guitar riffs to caustic blather concerning gay cowboys, schemie junkies, ultra bras and Cassavetes movies. They split up into a million tiny shards in 1999 with members going on to form Franz Ferdinand and 1990s and their influence reaching its […]
Redd Kross is an American rock band from Hawthorne, California, who had their roots in 1978 in a punk rock band called the Tourists, which was started by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald while Steve was still in middle school. With the addition of friends Greg Hetson and John Stielow on drums, the band’s first […]
This Is The Kit, led by the enigmatic Kate Stables, aren’t here to hold your hand. This is intricate, often unsettling folk-rock that worms its way under your skin with its off-kilter rhythms and Stables’ distinctively English lilt. They’ve been championed by the likes of Guy Garvey, toured with The National, and garnered serious critical […]
