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Farewell Poetry – Hoping for the invisible to ignite

Orienteers – Orienteers

Wake up to Just Handshakes (We’re British)

It’s October and it feels like it’s time to pull out the Chocolate Abuelita tablets, get a better set of coats and play a bunch of 7″ singles that make you think of roller skates, The Clangers and possibly trees. That doesn’t make sense. What DOES make sense it’s checking out Just Handshakes (We’re British) if you…

The Hope Explosion – EP

I’m Kingfisher – Arctic

Forest Fire – Staring at the X

Invite: Sheffield Oxjam 2011

We cordially invite you to a weekend of good music (and even better vibes) in the form of Oxjam Sheffield 2011. The festival will take place in several venues across town. Individual entry to each venue is 4 quid but you can buy a venue-jumping ticket for 7 quids. It all goes for a good…

Wake up to… Smokers Die Younger

Don’t you hate it? You’re just chilling about after doing your shopping when your dinner comes back to life (via The Resurrection Glove) and runs from you. We were warned about this. Smokers Die Younger are a band from Sheffield that had many a tag attached to them, but having seen them twice, it’s a…

Four elemental attack

The Hope Explosion, Wet Nuns, All Mankind and The Violet May @ Leadmill, Sheffield.

Looking back at… Thrice – The Alchemist Index (Vol. 1 – 4)

It’s always mind-blowing when a band you sort of tagged and bagged into a particular shelf in your genre cupboard (TM) becomes self-aware and evolves. Thrice is one of those cases: pigeonholed in the post-hardcore/screamo box, they pulled the rug for a lot of people in 2007 and 2008 with their quadruple EP (sold in two instalments…