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Marvin and Fiona Phythian @ The Musician From the moment he surreptitiously sneaked through the audience, Bramwell appears as a consummate singer-songwriter at incredible ease with his surroundings within Leicester’s famous venue - The Musician. Although not always mentioned in the folk scene due to his Indie roots a conversation needs to be had about how good Bramwell really is.  It is this writers view that John Bramwell must surely be considered one of the great English folk singer songwriters even if he is seen as more indie by some. In my mind John Bramwell is somewhere between the celebrated...

Some may say that being a DJ is simply being in charge of the music and pressing play and that’s it’s a fairly straight-forward business. Those in the know, know that the truth of the matter is quite the opposite. The process of lugging around turntables, amps, heavy speakers, various lights, dj booths, records, laptops, a million wires and then the pressure of getting it all to work together (which it never does first time) is an art itself . Then there’s a difference between playing your own playlists at a party through some expensive speakers and carefully selecting your...

If you haven’t yet been to Leicester’s Punk Festival exhibition ‘Rage and Revolution’ you’d better be quick as it finishes in a couple weeks. The main exhibition at Leicester museum on New Walk is the best produced exhibition I’ve seen in Leicester and looks more akin to something you’d see in London or Liverpool.     The exhibition focuses on the history of punk in the UK with an additional magnifying glass on its influence in Leicester and those who played an active part in shaping the culture of punk through music, fashion, art and the political statements attached to them....

If you love the punk scene or just fancy a trip back to an era full of rage and revolution, then this exhibition is for you. Kicking off May 27th at Leicester's New Walk museum, the opening weekend features nostalgic talks, live music and dance performances, a convoy of mods and a pop up record shop hosted by yours truly. If you went to the excellent '2019 Mods: Shaping a Generation exhibition' and enjoyed it as mush as we did then this one promises to be even better. Leicester creative stalwarts: Soft Touch Arts, Arch Creative and Shaun Knapp, are...

By Mike Garnett The idea of creating a list of the 5 best metal albums of all time is fairly preposterous, the idea of the 5 best thrash albums is still daft but a bit more palatable.  There are of course many fine thrash albums. These are my own 5 killer LPs whose face melting guitar riffs have helped spawn and influence death metal, black metal, metalcore etc.  Enjoy and let us know who you think should have made the list?   Judas Priest – Painkiller (1990)   Judas Priest’s place in the pantheon of the metal gods had long-since...