Oxjam is a music festival like no other, happening in tows and cities all around the UK every year to raise money for Oxfam. The main event for Leicester was on Saturday 22nd October in the heart of Leicester in the city’s Cultural Quarter.

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Shifting ever forward in their bright career, By The Rivers’ new single One Word, released just before their country-wide tour with The Specials, takes their neo-Reggae styling’s a step closer to the bright lights of the mainstream. With a packed out local release show at The Donkey full of family, friends & general well-wishers, By [...]

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The newest festival to hit Leicestershire took place this weekend, jumping up from a one day event last year to a weekend camping experience this year…

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From the off Sunday was anticipated to be the best of the three days at this years 11th Summer Sundae, at least around these parts. The presence of the Drowned in Sound curated indoor stage is of course the main attraction for us but outside in the heat the average age of the audience just dropped a decade. McFly’s Sunday night headline slot had been a talking point from it’s announcement…

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Another early start sees us up at the crack of dawn to catch one of the best acts of the day in the form of the wonderful Humble He and playing a criminally short sets on The Musician stage. The former valiantly fight off technical problems for their final set in their current form…

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Summer Sundae Festival starts surprisingly early for us. We take the long walk up New Walk before midday to catch local girl Elizabeth Cornish (accompanied as always by Jason Smith on bass) for a set of almost agonisingly delicate folk…

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Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock or have pretty shoddy taste in music then you’ll be well aware that the past weekend was the now annual occurrence of White Noise at Firebug now stretching over four days from Thursday to Sunday…

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Wolf Gang (the indie band, not the rap collective), are brilliant and I can only thank them for bringing their catchy indie-pop tunes to The Sumo for the first time. The last day of their 3-day mini-tour brought them to Leicester, and I got the perfect opportunity to meet frontman Max and talk about his times on the road, family, music and general life…

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There’s a problem with being a man with an acoustic guitar in this day and age. Draw comparisons to the likes of Bob Dylan, Elliot Smith, Johnny Cash, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits or Nick Drake and you will inevitably fail to live up to their high standards. However, fail to draw comparison to them and you clearly don’t know your craft nearly well enough…

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Life In Film have come a long way in the past few years since they first formed; from touring all over Europe, to being involved in the reinvention of Burberry. With the band currently doing a small series of dates around the country, they stopped off at Leicester’s Soundhouse, before going on to Manchester and then to France…

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Birds Of Passage set seems to be doomed from the outset by technical difficulties and half the audience talking louder than Alicia Merz’s vocals and music. There’s a definite beauty in these slight tunes but the live setting tonight does her no favours at all with the short set never getting out of first gear…

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