About John McGarvey

Big Hand are a ska-funk group from Edinburgh. We first enjoyed their pacy, trumpet-laden sound about four years ago during a trip north of the border. They’ve been busy touring ever since and return to London at the weekend, playing the Camden Barfly on Saturday …

Take half of Supergrass, add a respected producer, throw in a bunch of classic tunes and you’ll end up with The Hot Rats. This side project has seen Gaz (the one with the impressive sideburns) and Danny (the Primrose Hill one) from the Oxford four-piece …

The best photo we managed to snap of Josh Homme at the Reading Festival All supergroups are not created equal. But one of the more equal ones has got to be Them Crooked Vultures. With Josh Homme leading the charge up front, Led Zep’s John …

Image of Art Brut courtesy of Furxi under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Club Fandango is one of London’s best-established indie nights. And this September will again see the organisers put on A Fistful of Fandango, a four-night ‘festival’ at 229 on Great Portland Street. …

Picture used with permission from Big_Franko. We’ll save you the suspense on this one. As the intense competition for tickets suggested, general expectations for this week’s Pearl Jam gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire were sky high. Or possibly a bit higher. Yet despite this, …

Image courtesy of matteb83 under a Creative Commons Attribution licence We’re expecting to hear a lot from Noah and the Whale over the next few months. With a slew of festival appearances over the summer, a second album and accompanying film out at the end …

Coxon on the Roundhouse stage There’s no doubt about it: Blur’s recent reunion was a triumph. And given the number of the band’s t-shirts on show at Graham Coxon‘s iTunes Festival gig tonight, it seems a good proportion of the competition-winning audience have turned up …

Image of The Rakes courtesy of darkmavis under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Ok, so it’s got a website that’s trying a bit too hard and a rather contrived name. But if you put those minor grumbles aside, next Sunday’s 1-2-3-4 Shoreditch Festival looks like …

Image courtesy of Pearl Jam Official under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Listen up rock fans – you won’t want to miss this. Pearl Jam have announced a tiny gig (by their arena-filling standards) at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 11 August. Frankly, getting tickets …

Image courtesy of pieter.morlion under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. At a loose end tomorrow afternoon? If you fancy a bit of folk-punk-protest live music, hop on the Northern Line and head down to The Flowerpot in Camden where Billy Bragg will be playing at …