Takedown Festival 2023 - Final Line Up Poster - Stage Splits

Takedown Festival 2023 Preview

For the first time in 8 years, Takedown Festival returns this weekend! Moving from it’s previous home of Southampton University to Portsmouth Guildhall, it promises to kick start your Easter weekend with much a serious dose of heaviness. Split over 5 stages, there will be something for everyone, no matter what flavour of Rock &…

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Top 20 (ish) of 2019 – Sam Savigny

Allow me, if you will, to get on my soapbox and shout about all the bloody brilliant music that has come out this year. If you’re willing to listen – not to me mind, to the music – you will find that 2019 has been one of the best years of the decade and as the 10s draw to their eventual but inevitable close, join me as we look at my top 20 (ish, I cheated) albums and five EPs of the year.

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ArcTanGent 2019 Friday Highlights

Following on from the first day of ArcTanGent 2019 – we’ve got the pick of the bunch from day two’s bands, courtesy of Sam Savigny. If you’ve not yet seen our highlights from day one of this year’s ArcTanGent, you can check them out on this link. Building from a whisper to a glorious, melancholy…

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2000 Trees 2019 – Full Festival Review

2000 Trees. Recently dubbed by Kerrang the UK’s best mid-sized festival, and once you’ve read this review of 2000 Trees 2019, you might well be inclined to agree with them. Our man on the ground Sam Savigny presents extensive coverage of all three days of the festival, following his earlier highlight summaries of Thursday, Friday…

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Jamie Lenman - Shuffle Album Artwork

Jamie Lenman – Shuffle

The term ‘covers album’ is undoubtedly a dirty one. Rock covers albums fall into two categories; vanity projects that are utter dross, or Garage Inc. Essentially it’s fair to say that covers albums are a pointless endeavour that only seek to serve an artist’s ego as they relive the music that they love to the…

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