The Leadmill Reach Top Three

Award Nomination Is Music To The Ears For Sheffield’s Most Esteemed Live Music Venue

Sheffield’s most time honoured live music venue is now at the forefront in the running for one of the industry’s most prestigious awards.
The Leadmill – which celebrates its 31^st birthday this year –constituted one of the nine venues originally nominated for […]

Sheffield’s Time-Honoured Music Venue In Spotlight For Award

Sheffield’s longest standing live music venue is in the limelight after being nominated for one of the UKs most prestigious music awards, following enduring success.
The Leadmill, which celebrates its 31^st birthday this year, has been nominated for a Live UK Music Business Award. The award is one of the industry’s most highly esteemed acclamations, the final […]

Hideout Festival 2011: Shhhh, it’s a secret….

How many times have you found yourself at a festival, by all accounts having the time of you life, wishing the main man had made at least an 8^th day purely for this purpose, yet by day three secretly wished for a shower that isn’t a flying bottle of wee, shampoo that isn’t dry, and a cheeky recovery day […]

Mark Set Go

A Tantalising Début From No Lights At Lockdown
Forming as a five piece in 2009, this energetic group of lads have since quickly and by no means quietly established themselves on the gigging scene. Hitting up the UK with their headline tour last summer, they played 45 gigs in 3 months. A year on and No Lights at […]

Frank Chat:

A snapshot into the mind and musings of Frank Turner

He’s got 3 solo albums behind him, has a new EP on the way, is soon to kick-off another UK tour and plans to be back in the studio before you can say ‘2011’.
He’s got 56,441 “likes” on Facebook, has had absolutely no help from Simon Cowell and is […]

Mark Butcher : Songs From The Sun House

A guitar playing vocalist from London, Mark Butcher recorded his debut album Songs from the Sun House in 2008 and released it earlier this year. The album stands out as one which someone – in this case it’s capable author – has poured a fountain of heart, soul and faith into, and not without merit. This […]

JC Harnell’s CTLG: Calm, Composed & Electric

JC Harnell is an electronic composer with an edge. His chilled and tranquil tunes are the soundtrack to walking down an endless sandy beach with the bright sunshine in the sky, not a soul in sight, not a care in the world.
July of this year saw the release of his first full-length EP, CTLG, which boasts 21 […]

Hearing New Beats in Brighter Colours

Composed of 10 songs, 10 diverse genres, 9 bands, 1 soloist and a range of nationalities, the enthralling New Beats Media E-CD Inspiration-Ispiratio offers an eclectic melody of tunes designed to demonstrate the broad range of musical varieties explored on the captivating and fresh New Beats Media website.
Encompassing Blues, Spanish pop, Folk, Trip-hop, Indie and Acoustic to name […]

Ozone Baby- Girl with Cassettes

This band’s name may be familiar to you, a familiarity that most likely manifests in the form of the 1972 hit single Ozone Baby ‘70s music kings Led Zeppelin. Their namesake gives away an element of their style, as this dynamic group from Eastbourne take inspiration from said ‘70s band, blending it amongst softer indie […]

Old habits Di’ hard

Diana Vickers, Leadmill, Sheffield, Monday 17^th May

Oh Diana Vickers. One of the many Marmites of the music world. Some of you may be able to hark back to the X Factor days, a competition in which the self-named “The Vickerage” ranked 4^th in the final. Wooing some with her youthful, bare-footed, messy-blonde-haired, rasping-voiced naivety and sending others running […]