NICK LOWE
For more than five decades, Nick Lowe has proved that few things age better than a great song. A key figure in British pub rock and an important presence in the emergence of punk and new wave, he first made his name with Brinsley Schwarz before becoming an influential songwriter, producer and solo artist. He […]
THE WATERBOYS
Since Mike Scott formed The Waterboys in 1983, the band have followed a path that has never fitted neatly into a single genre. The expansive rock of This Is the Sea and “The Whole of the Moon” gave way a few years later to Fisherman’s Blues, where Irish folk and acoustic roots radically reshaped their […]
GRAN CAÑÓN
Gran Cañón came together for one very simple reason: a group of friends wanted to play the songs that made them fall in love with rock music in the first place. Led by Carlos Tarque and Leiva and featuring musicians connected to M-Clan, Los Zigarros and other key names from the Spanish rock scene, the […]
DEAD ELVIS & HIS ONE MAN GRAVE
Elvis is dead, but apparently somebody forgot to bury him properly. Behind Dead Elvis & His One Man Grave is a Dutch one-man band who turns rockabilly into a B-movie horror show. Guitar, drums, coffin and an unmistakably undead aesthetic provide the setting for a mixture of rockabilly, garage, trash blues and primitive rock & […]
BARRRK
Hailing from the Basque Country, BARRRK push rock into rougher territory, bringing heavy guitars and distortion together with a direct, stripped-back attitude. The Basque-language band move between stoner, grunge and alternative rock, building their songs around dense riffs and a powerful rhythmic backbone that comes fully into its own on stage. With Euskara forming part […]
TULSA
Behind Tulsa’s untamed magnetism beats the heart of Miren Iza, a true outlaw of the Spanish indie scene who learned to bite the dust in the late nineties, spitting electricity with the wild punk-pop of Electrobikinis. Far from settling into commercial neatness, Iza threw caution to the wind to found her most personal project, named […]
BRATAKUS
Two sisters, a guitar, a bass and a drum machine. With little more than that, Brèagha and Onnagh Cuinn have spent over a decade turning Bratakus into a blast of DIY punk born in Tomintoul, a small village in the Scottish Highlands. Hardcore, riot grrrl and punk rock collide in fast, sharp-edged songs fuelled by […]
THE BIRD EXPERIENCE
The Bird Experience use psychedelic blues as a starting point for a sound that opens out into soul, funk and improvisation. Hailing from the Netherlands and led by vocalist and harmonica player Mees Vullings, the band can expand to as many as twelve musicians on stage, shaping a live set that is fluid and constantly […]
DEKE DICKERSON
For Deke Dickerson, rock & roll is at its best in its rawest form, back when it mixed freely with rockabilly, country, western swing and rhythm & blues. A guitarist, singer and genuine scholar of American roots music, he has spent decades exploring that musical landscape with a combination of virtuosity, humour and devotion to […]
PETER BRUNTNELL
Born in New Zealand but long established in Britain, Peter Bruntnell has spent decades carving out a distinctive place in the UK’s roots music landscape. His songs sit somewhere between Americana, folk rock, power pop and alternative country, with melody and finely observed songwriting always taking precedence over grand gestures. Since the 1990s, he has […]