The Setlist & The Script

Ready to define yet another unforgettable summer, Courteeners have announced details of a landmark headline show at Manchester’s famed Heaton Park – returning on Friday 9th June 2023 to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of their seminal debut album ‘St Jude’ in the city where it all began. A trailblazing force…

More growth this week at H2NHQ as we welcome Conan Cavanagh to the team! Based in Cardiff, we have finally got some Welsh presence at H2N and we’re really excited to have Conan on board. With Charlotte joining this month and Conan joining the team, we’ve now got more reach…

The H2N team is always looking to expand and we’re delighted to introduce our newest recruit, Charlotte Brennan, covering H2N across London, Oxford and Southampton. We thought we’d introduce in typical H2N fashion by getting her lowdown on the music scene in 2022 so far! Hello, my name is Charlotte.…

Here’s a Kendal Calling tip for you. If you really want to see any of the bands on Friday, get there on Thursday. I got to the outskirts of Lowther Deer Park at 12:30 pm, and eventually parked my car some 5 and-a-half hours later. I’m sure some lasting friendships…

The first scene in Episode Three of the Star Wars trilogy takes place in an arid, desert environment. Tramlines takes place in Sheffield so that was never going to happen, and day three opens to a steady, south Yorkshire drizzle. For the sake of completeness I felt compelled to take-in…

Director: Shaun KerrisonWritten by: Shaun Kerrison & Julian Bigg The Osmonds. If you’d asked me on Monday to name as many Osmonds songs as I could, I’d have struggled to get much further than Donny Osmond’s “Puppy Love”. As someone born in the ’90s, it’s unsurprising to hear that “Osmondmania”…

Truck Festival returned for its 25th Anniversary in July and what a weekend it was! The weather was perfect, the line-up even more so and it could not have been a better way to come back and smash their big birthday year. There’s simply too much to write about from…

I’m going to start with a minor rant. If you’ve been following carefully then you’ll know that our Tramlines reviews have a bit of a Star Wars theme to them; for no other reason than they both come as trilogies. The villain in Star Wars was Darth Vader. For me,…

A long time ago in a city far, far away (well it seems like that when you’re stuck in a contraflow system on the Woodhead Pass) there was a festival called Tramlines. A mighty plague swept through the South Yorkshire System and the Tramliners disappeared. Then in 2022 came a…

After years of anticipation, Truck Festival made a triumphant return over the weekend – bringing together the artists soundtracking indie/alternative music fans on a daily basis to a celebratory festival experience that’ll stand as a beacon of the summer.  Living up to its reputation as boasting one of the best festival…

This weekend sees the return of Mardi Gras Festival to Leeds’ Roundhay Park. With live music, house music, markets and international street food, Mardi Gras promises to be one of the stellar dates in this years’ summer in Leeds. Following the huge success of the first Mardi Gras Festival, it’s…

When my eldest daughter recently got her first proper job and uprooted herself to Sheffield, on t’other side of the Pennines, my initial sadness was quickly tempered by the thought that, ‘At least I’ll have somewhere to stay for Tramlines!’. Some of you will already be planning your weekend, dusting…

Sometimes music submissions drop into your Emails and set you off down an internet search rabbit-hole to learn more about the artist. This is what happened to me immediately after receiving a copy of Hands. I found myself trawling through Spotify tunes, You Tube clips of German music shows and…

Festival Season is almost here and at Halfway 2 Nowhere that means getting the tent cleaned, digging out the wellies and building endless Spotify playlists getting us ready for the fields over the summer months. Our festival season this year kicks off in Norwich (a mere 196 miles from my…

Parklife 2022 is almost upon us! June 11-12th sees one of the UK’s biggest festivals return to Manchester’s Heaton Park in what is shaping up to be their biggest year to date. With a bumper line-up featuring the best in the business in rap, dance and drum and bass music,…

It’s a more than mildly interesting time to be in a band called Barbara, a fact that Brighton brothers, Henry and John Tydeman will surely testify to. From April 26th the band will be heading out to support The Divine Comedy on their nationwide tour; and Friday 22nd of April…