The Underground Stage
“The Great Awake launch their album tonight from a standing start, and punt it straight through the roof and into the upper atmosphere. Tonight is a set made of experience, about being there, doing it, and adding it to the setlist, for those who knew, who know, and those who just learned how. They should […]
“Watching an Ess-Em set is like fighting an octopus armed with many knives and axes. Just when you think you’ve got a grip on it, it stabs you right in the back of the head, precisely where you weren’t looking. It’s complicated, hilarious, boisterous, and bonkers, the best head wound you’ll ever have.” Gallery Learn […]
“Operation Ibis deliver their core ingredients faster than Uber Eats ever could, with smiles and snarls added to your order for free. The tunes are conscious of your need to dance, but the main course here is the lyrics, describing a world that’s fully and properly cooked.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Just one of the excellent set of scrappy, poppy punk on their “Quit” album, this one in particular hits (me) like a scalpel on a vein. Take this track as a warning, youngsters – hell, I guess this is growing up 👴🏻”
“An explosive opening expands rapidly into constellations of bouncing, pounding, and general freaking out – guaranteed to put boings in backs, and springs in steps 🛫”
“Hope D’s clattering and wobbly style teeters right on the edge, threatening to collapse in a heap at any moment, but – like many of the lives she describes in her songs – it clings on tight to somehow make it through to the other side 🥵”
“A magnificently sinister riff opens and dominates the latest from Newcastle’s Slow Cinema, and – aptly – ends up sounding like the strutting finale to a film about likeable, dangerous, characters ⚠️”
“Curtis Murray rides into town on the back of his debut track, with dust on his boots, and the sun low behind him. While the hooves drum with menace in the verse, the choruses combust into giant showers of sparks and prairie flame 🤠”
Every week, my robots scour the biggest nine New Music Friday playlists in the world to see whose getting backed hard by the big green machine. This week: 🏆 The Champ: Ellie Goulding Ellie Goulding’s “Like A Saviour” was a unanimous choice for the top nine New Music Friday lists this week, with her 32m […]