2025

Gig review – Public Image Limited at O2 Academy, Thursday 3rd July 2025

17/07/2025 Thomas Needham 0
You can hear and feel the exhaustive threat of nuclear holocaust, the decay of industrial communities, The Troubles, the growth of the National Front, bodies piling high and unburied and the precipice of Thatcherism.

Single review – Daz Lynch, Give a Little Love

19/06/2025 Thomas Needham 0
Now accompanied by a rhythm section manned by John Barrow on saxophone and John O’Rilley whose sashaying bass flutters its feathers across the mix.

Review – Creepy Crawlers Festival at The Big Difference, Saturday 31st May 2025

15/06/2025 Thomas Needham 0
Reviewed and photographed by Thomas Needham It’s 5pm somewhere I thought, Red Stripe in hand, basking in the sun billowing down upon The Big Difference. […]

Interview – DreamCage

13/06/2025 Thomas Needham 0
We drove 3 hours to arrive at a full set up festival, food stalls, Toploader, Dizzie Rascal, toilet facilities – but nobody there. Turned out to be a money laundering front and all the acts got scammed.

Gig review – Eryx London at Duffy’s Bar, Saturday 17th May 2025

29/05/2025 Thomas Needham 0
with Wolves in Alcatraz and New Age Grace Reviewed by Thomas Needham Photographed by Kevin Gaughan As Stoke-on-Trent’s Wolves in Alcatraz belatedly took to the […]