Everyone has their own Glastonbury experience. It’s so vast, with 200,000 people and thousands of acts scattered across two large Somerset farms, that this giant muddy city is able to offer something for everyone. There are those that like the […]
Whenever I meet a fan of The Levellers I feel it’s my duty as a Brightonian to point out they were not the best folk rock band to emerge from my seaside hometown during the late 1980s and early 1990s. […]
It was fitting that John Darnielle choose the track Love, Love, Love, from his 2005 album The Sunset Tree to start this first gig in a short UK tour as a Mountain Goats duo with long time bassist Peter Hughes, […]
Friday The heavens may have opened on Thursday to create what has become ‘typical Glastonbury weather’, but thankfully that looks like it for the rain. The weather, a major preoccupation among those attending Glastonbury, looks perfect for the rest of […]
The choice of music at the Glastonbury Festival can be bewildering: from the well known Pyramid Stage, which forms the bulk of the BBC TV coverage, to the smaller stages and bar venues. To help out we’ve compiled out list […]
Alan Sparhawk, the lead singer with US slowcore veterans Low, is a walking, singing, strumming masterclass in controlled aggression, writes Neonfiller.com’s Joe Lepper Packed to its former church rafters, Bristol’s Trinity Arts Centre was at times in awe, others in […]
Californian underground legend Chuck sure has paid his dues and his autobiography, should he ever write one, would be a riveting read; after three decades on the road he could give even Keef Richards a run for his money, writes […]
Among the most surprising aspects of the press release to accompany news of Low’s latest album The Invisible Way is that this is now the 20th anniversary of the band, writes Neonfiller.com‘s Joe Lepper. Centred around husband and wife duo […]
Since her 2010 debut album Own Side Now, Caitlin Rose has steadily built a following thanks to her impeccable sounding country folk, writes Neonfiller.com’s Matthew Nicholson. She returned for Record Store Day in 2012, throwing a different light on the […]
When the likes of Joe Strummer and Paul Weller sung about police brutality and racism in their late 1970s and early 1980s heyday thousands took notice, writes Neonfiller.com’s Joe Lepper. But when National Wake, a multi-racial punk band in Apartheid […]
