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Unloved - Heartbreak Album Review
Unloved are back with their second full-length album 'Heartbreak'. The trio of David Holmes, Keefus Ciancia and vocalist Jade Vincent are set to release the follow-up to 2016's 'Guilty Of Love' on February 1st. The...
Review posted on 31st January 2019
Stalker Miller - Homegrown By Joan Album Review
In an age where streaming farms are generating tens of thousands of plays through the use of repeat plays on hundreds of 'fake' phones, it is refreshing to know that music can still be made...
Review posted on 30th January 2019
The Vaccines - Brighton Dome 25.01.2019 Live Review
The rather regal elegance of The Brighton Dome played host to The Vaccines for the first time in years on Friday night to the delight of the sold-out crowd. Following a return to form with...
Review posted on 29th January 2019
Toy - Happy In The Hollow Album Review
After ten years together, Toy are releasing their fourth full-length studio album. 'Happy In The Hollow' represents the band's first album for their new label Tough Love Records, and their first since 2016's 'Clear Shot'....
Review posted on 23rd January 2019
Go Dark - Neon Young Album Review
When a hitchhiking Chicago runaway met a seasoned MC and producer on the streets of Oakland, California, Go Dark was born. Poet, painter and globe-trotting busker Ashley 'Crash' Gallegos and Adam 'Dosone' Drucker started working...
Review posted on 16th January 2019
RYD - RYD Album Review
RYD, aka North London producer Ryan Downie, is set to release his self-titled debut album under that moniker on 18th January. The ten tracks that make up Downie's first full-length offering come on the back...
Review posted on 14th January 2019
Steve Mason - About The Light Album Review
Steve Mason's fourth solo studio album, his first since 2016's 'Meet The Humans', sees him continue to change things up ever so slightly with each release. In a more collaborative move, including contributions along the...
Review posted on 2nd January 2019
The Pere Ubu Moon Unit - Ramsgate Music Hall 7.12.2018 Live Review
You may think that the relative calm and unassuming nature of Ramsgate would not attract the arty and the avant-garde but you'd be wrong. The post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh taught at a boarding school...
Review posted on 10th December 2018
Ride - Dreamland, Margate 30.11.2018 Live Review
With all the coasters, carousels and bumper cars put to bed there was only one attraction to see at Dreamland in Margate. Celebrating thirty years of Ride with a special anniversary Unplugged tour, Oxfordshire's finest...
Review posted on 4th December 2018
Reef - Dreamland, Margate 23.11.2018 Live Review
In the Hall By The Sea at Dreamland, Reef brought their Revelation tour to life as they delivered one of the best live sets I've had the privilege to witness this year. The recently rejuvenated...
Review posted on 26th November 2018
Mattiel - Patterns, Brighton 16.11.2018 Live Review
On a night when a vast swathe of the population were watching a yellow bear with a polka dot scarf raise millions for Children In Need, Mattiel Brown and her band put on an anything...
Review posted on 19th November 2018
Crooked Man - Crooked House Album Review
As the nights draw in and the temperature drops, Crooked Man treats us to a fabulous slice of sun-soaked House, Disco and Electro that is sure to brighten your mood and warm you up with...
Review posted on 12th November 2018
John Grant - Brighton Dome 29.10.2018 Live Review
With a fourth solo album having just dropped and his 50th birthday celebrations behind him, John Grant kicked off the UK leg of his latest tour in style at The Brighton Dome. John arrived at...
Review posted on 6th November 2018
John Grant - Love Is Magic Album Review
With three critically acclaimed albums behind him as a solo artist, the quality of the back-catalogue of the once-upon-a-time Czar, John Grant, is building to be the one of the most impressive set of albums...
Review posted on 11th October 2018
Anna Calvi - All Saints Church, Hove 5.10.2018 Live Review
'Garrulous, loquacious, verbose, effusive, chatty'; this is not how you would describe Anna Calvi. Aside from name-checking her band and saying a couple of thank yous, Anna didn't speak tonight. Focused, possessed behind the eyes...
Review posted on 9th October 2018
Lydia Cole - Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate 20.09.2018 Live Review
From New Zealand, via Berlin, Lydia Cole came to play at not only one of the smallest theatres in the UK, but also one of the smallest in the world. The Tom Thumb Theatre (TTTT)...
Review posted on 26th September 2018
Black Honey - Black Honey Album Review
Frankenstein's Monster is not the title of this album but it is how the band have described it (you can almost feel the sense of relief that it's finally happening). Black Honey's eponymous debut has...
Review posted on 20th September 2018
Wheels and Fins 2018 - Live Review
On a clifftop above a beautiful sandy beach, a mere stone's throw from where Charles Dickens used to spend his summer holidays, Wheels And Fins Festival sprang into life over the weekend. In the shadow...
Review posted on 12th September 2018
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt Album Review
Spiritualized's eighth album comes twenty-six years after their first, twenty-eight years since the group's inception and six years since their last, 'Sweet Heart, Sweet Light', and yet sounds as fresh and vibrant as if it...
Review posted on 7th September 2018
Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance Album Review
You wait around for a feral, untethered, vital, challenging and dynamic record to shock your senses and then two come along in the space of eighteen months, and both are by the same band. Idles...
Review posted on 29th August 2018
Roni Size - Dreamland, Margate 25.08.2018 Live Review
On the back of the twentieth anniversary celebrations for his breakthrough album 'New Forms', Roni Size brought his party to the Scenic Stage of Margate's Dreamland over the weekend. Bristol's very own Drum n' Bass...
Review posted on 28th August 2018
![Roni Size's 20th Anniversary Performance of 'New Forms' at Dreamland [Preview]](https://www.contactmusic.com/images/feature-images/roni-size-2018-promo-700-420.jpg "Roni Size's 20th Anniversary Performance of 'New Forms' at Dreamland [Preview]")
Roni Size's 20th Anniversary Performance of 'New Forms' at Dreamland [Preview]
This weekend sees another very special performance at Margate's Dreamland amusement park. Supported by none other than LTJ Bukem, Roni Size will take to the Scenic Stage on August 25th 2018 to perform his 1997,...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 22nd August 2018
Wye Oak - The Booking Hall, Dover, Kent 14.08.2018 Live Review
From one important seaport to another, Wye Oak came across the pond from Baltimore to Dover as they played at The Booking Hall. From the home of the Star Spangled Banner to the home of...
Review posted on 21st August 2018
Neverworld 2018 Live Review
Neverworld brought out the bright and the beautiful over a sun-drenched three days on John Darling's Farm in Kent. In now the twelfth year of what was formerly known as LeeFest, Neverworld and its 'three...
Review posted on 8th August 2018
Libertines Release Details Of Their Curated Stage At Wheels & Fins Festival
The Wheels And Fins Festival, taking place between the 7th-9th September at Joss Bay Beach near Broadstairs in Kent, have just announced a rather special set of additions to their already impressive line-up. The Libertines,...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 8th August 2018
Gabe Gurnsey - Physical Album Review
After thirteen years on the Factory Floor, Gabe Gurnsey has decided it's time he was afforded time away from his post-industrial roots to explore a wider, altogether warmer, musical landscape. Gabe's latest album is a...
Review posted on 1st August 2018
Orbital - Dreamland, Margate, Kent 28.07.2018 Live Review
Thirty years ago two brothers from Sevenoaks in Kent (neither called Harry) recorded a track in a cupboard under the stairs, starting them on a pioneering course that would serve to help shape the future...
Review posted on 31st July 2018
Soulwax - Essential Album Review
Who knew that twenty-five years ago a radio format that was entirely new at the time would turn out to be one of the longest running radio shows in the BBC's illustrious history? When Pete...
Review posted on 22nd June 2018
Field Division - Dark Matter Dreams Album Review
From the capital of the Mid-West state of Iowa, via the country music capital of Nashville and through to the mountains of Colorado, Field Division have journeyed far and wide to facilitate the release of...
Review posted on 22nd June 2018
Starcrawler - The Haunt, Brighton 19.06.18 Live Review
Thrillseekers chase the dream; the ultimate wave, the sheerest cliff face, the biggest drop, the fastest coaster, the highest this, the longest that. That urge, that drive, that determination or that sheer single-minded and unrelenting...
Review posted on 21st June 2018
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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