It’s been a few weeks since the entire Oxford Road area succumbed to the now annual onslaught of orchestrated anarchy that is Manchester Punk Festival. Once again, the event saw a patchwork sea of freaks, fans, and fiends descend from [...Read More]
Words from the Underground: Shredding Faces, and a Night at the Flicks
This month we’ve got some absolute crackers for you. First off, we revisited Manchester punk scene’s favourite haunt for an evening of face shredding skate punk with Guildford’s Darko, and out-of-country label-mates, Straightline. We were at Anarchistic Undertones’s ShredFest, as [...Read More]
Meet the team behind Manchester Punk Festival
For many (myself included), Manchester Punk Festival has become the official signal for the start of the festival season. From humble beginnings, the event has expanded yearly, and now features a fully international line-up, with home grown UK talent sharing [...Read More]
Words From The Underground: Four Shades of Death Metal
This month’s Words From The Underground is shamefully short. With the whole of February teasing a tickling of snow over the Scottish highlands, I’ve selfishly tried to keep the weekends commitment free. Watching webcam weather feeds in a state of [...Read More]
words from the underground
‘WFTU: Drowned in sound with Oathbreaker, and SNFU deliver a blast of the fast For the first proper edition of 2017, we’ve a tale of two front-people. A duo of equally spectacular lead vocalists for our listening and viewing pleasure. [...Read More]
New Year, Same Words From The Underground: The Last Chance To Dance With John Player Specials
I’ve decided to spare you the anti-2016 diatribe that seems to have stained just about every corner of digital media recently. Sure, the proportion of ghastly happenings occurring the world over and the bowing out of several musical heroes has [...Read More]
Words From The Underground: Balkan Beats and Swinging Feet
For this month’s round up of the sounds from beneath the streets we’ll be heading to a couple of pretty eclectic shows. First up, we’ve got a mash-up tribe of Balkan fascist-smashers all the way from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bringing [...Read More]
WFTU: GRINDING IN LEEDS WITH THE WEEKEND NACHOS AND RIDING ALMEIDA’S IMPLIED DRAGONS
For this edition of Words From The Underground, we managed to hunt out some truly extreme sounds for you to cast your ears over. We visited the Temple Of Boom in Leeds for an evening of absolute filth at Weekend [...Read More]
WORDS FROM THE UNDERGROUND
Greetings, salutations and welcome, to the most autonomous wing of Sounds magazine. The brief is vague. If it’s fast, we’ll like it. If it’s heavy, we’ll love it. If it’s all of the above, done on a budget, then we’re [...Read More]