Happy International Women’s Day! Welcome to Queens of the Neighbourhood, a brand new SYS feature. If there’s one thing that is obviously frustrating about alternative music, a scene that is meant to exude diversity and equality, it is the underrepresentation of women. It doesn’t take much to look through any alternative magazine or even looking at […]
On a good day playing a show anywhere across mainland Europe means you are met warmly by staff at the venue, fed well, given plenty of beer to drink, people show up, enjoy the show, they chat afterwards, buy merch, everyone generally feels validated at their choices in life. Then you are given somewhere decent […]
Touring. The dream. What a laugh. What a lark. Morrissey slammed the fast rise of Arctic Monkeys back in 2010 by saying “it’s all a bit unnatural…they haven’t been driving up and down the M1 for fifteen years.” Cool, nice one Moz, you really showed ’em but have you done more than one gig in a […]
Although no one really asked for another article from someone in a band telling you “how to be in a band” and “truths” and “how it really is” and “this is what it takes if you can handle it,” I figured with my head full of knowledge from our own little corner of making music, I had […]
I’ve been on tour in mainland Europe twice now and it’s like a whole different world of gigging, particularly from a band perspective. You can arrive at a random bar in France or Germany that you know nothing about and receive the most amazing hospitality, whatever size your band is. You’ll likely get more than […]
Seeing Your Scene chats to melodic skatepunkers LineOut from Italy about 2015. We’re putting them on in April at JT Soar – more details here. How was 2015? 2015 has literally been a perfect year for us. We played more than 40 shows, had the chance to support great bands as Ignite, Lagwagon, Strung Out […]
[dropcap]Brace[/dropcap] yourself. This is probably going to be quite long. In 2015, we put on a ton of shows across a few different cities, released our first compilation and published over 250 posts. Here, we’re going to go through our favourite releases by month and also our favourite articles we posted from each month. And […]
Seeing Your Scene chats to one of the best new bands of 2015, Mallcops! How was 2015? 2015 was incredible. We started this band, released an EP, went on tour and made really, really awesome friends. What was your favourite moment of the year? On tour we ate pizza in a parking lot with our friends […]
Seeing Your Scene chats to Nottingham’s own George Gadd who plays acoustic solo stuff and also fronts emo/pop-punks Little Bribes. How was 2015? It was a whirlwind of emotion but looks like it’s closing out on a high note thankfully! Hopefully next year our country can pull itself together. What was your favourite moment of […]
In the first of our series on 2015 we spoke to Barry of Oxygen Thief about his year! How was 2015? Excellent thanks! Kicked off opening for Frank Turner at Independent Venue Week, did a couple of full band tours, a solo acoustic one, and did some writing. Roll on 2016. What was your favourite moment […]