Believe in love at first sight or not, Julia Hoffman’s new single ‘Hopeless Love’ tells a painstaking confessional story of an instance entailing just that. While the phenomenon of love at first sight is like believing in ghosts to some, Hoffman paints the picture of an instant connection between two hopeless lovers, meeting on a…
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A New Dawn isn’t what you’d expect from the product of a broken relationship. Instead of an album full of heart-wrenching love songs and remorseful lyrics, Noakes’ approach to hopefulness and honesty through songwriting makes for an album full of optimism and pride. The first song of the album – ‘Crows a Calling’ – paints…
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Having played at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight Festival, Bestival and Cambridge folk festival Noble Jacks are garnered as one of the country’s ‘good time’ bands and they are back with the release of their second album Stay Awake on the 29th March – a perfect alternative to take your mind off the Brexit gloom. Preceding the album, this Friday…
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Separately Hayley Williams and Ben Williams (no relation) have had illustrious careers, but like any duo worth their salt, together, they’re greater than the sum of their parts. Having swapped skills and discovered a mutual love of folk music, the pair formed Son of William in Manchester. The duo’s stock-in-trade is slow burners that place…
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Kele Okereke will play an intimate show at Cambridge’s The Portland Arms on the 23rd of April. Having played the same venue back in 2004 with his iconic indie band, Bloc Party, the frontman will be returning under his solo guise in spring this year. The Bloc Party frontman said his forthcoming tour was for “…playing some…
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