Popped Picks – February24

POPPED PICKS: February 2024 Our favourite picks from all of the new releases within the month. This time the playlist is made up of the Popped team’s faves and we might just have a few guest pickers from time to time too! February might be the shortest month of the year but it was absolutely … Continue reading

Popped Picks – January 24

POPPED PICKS: JANUARY 2024 For 2024 we welcome back our monthly playlist; our favourite picks from all of the new releases within the month. This time the playlist is made up of the Popped team’s faves and we might just have a few guest pickers from time to time too! Plus you get to vote … Continue reading

Guest Blogger: Life Aquatic Band

Hello, Ben here from Life Aquatic Band, a group from Sheffield who likes to make a lot of noise that we sometimes call MUSIC. We’ve just released a new album called “FREE SUMMER” and Elena has been kind enough to ask us to write a few words about the album, where it came from, who … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Neighbourhood Weekender 2020

Neighbourhood Weekender 2020 Words: Elena Katrina & Gary Lambert PRICE INFO: TICKETS FOR THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WEEKENDER ARE ON SALE NOW HERE Keep Updated: Website// Facebook//Twitter When Neighbourhood Weekender has launched two years ago as a big boy version of Neighbourhood Festival, it turned into one of the surprise highlights of our Summer. Last year a bigger group … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Dot To Dot Festival 2019

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Dot To Dot Festival 2019 Various venues Manchester 24 May 2019// Bristol 25 May 2019 // Nottingham 26 May 2019 Tickets Words: Gary Lambert Dot To Dot is not just one of the best metropolitan festivals or one of the best festivals for new bands, it is consistently one of the best festivals on the … Continue reading

Live Review: Red Rum Club – Manchester

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Red Rum Club 11 May 2019, The Bread Shed, Manchester Words & Photos: Gary Lambert If you have been reading Popped Music lately (and if you haven’t you’re very naughty), you will know that one of our favourite bands is Red Rum Club. The debut album, Matador, is an absolute cracker, but it is their … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Highest Point, Lancaster

Highest Point Festival Williamson Park, Lancaster 17-18 May 2019 Words: Gary Lambert Highest Point Festival is a relatively new addition to the north-west summer taking place in Lancaster at Williamson Park. Obviously, on a far smaller scale, the festival seems to be using Glastonbury as a role model with the event mixing a variety of … Continue reading

Interview: Clean Cut Kid

Clean Cut Kid Words by Gary Lambert Photos by Gary Lambert Clean Cut Kid are a band who we have been with from the very start, so it was apt that we were able to catch up with them shortly after they had finished their afternoon headliner slot at Liverpool Sound City. With their grown-up … Continue reading

Festival Review: Liverpool Sound City 2019

Liverpool Sound City 2019 Various venues, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool, 4-5 May Words by Daniel Burton and Gary Lambert Photos by Gary Lambert Sound City 2019 was a festival that was approached with a cautious, tempered excitement. It felt like the organisers had made a bit of a gamble on the line up across the board … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Barn On The Farm 2019

Barn on The Farm 2019 Words: Elena Katrina Price info: Tickets for Barn on The Farm Festival 2019 are on sale here Keep Updated: Facebook//Twitter    Barn On The Farm has become a must-attend for us here at Popped Music. I can safely say the year we don’t get to go will be the year I … Continue reading

Festival Preview: The Great Escape 2019

The Great Escape 2019 Words: Elena Katrina Price info: Tickets for The Great Escape 2019 are on sale now  here Keep Updated: Website// Facebook//Twitter   The Great Escape is well known as the ultimate festival in the UK for new and emerging music and we’re thrilled to be attending once again this year.  With so much … Continue reading

Interview: The Blinders

The Blinders Words and Photos: Gary Lambert It was an unseasonably warm Manchester afternoon, and I was sat in my car with the windows up feeling like I don’t know what. I had just finished my interview with The Blinders and my mind was blank like a What The Fuck bomb had gone off in … Continue reading

Interview: The K’s

Interview: The K’s Words and Photography by Gary Lambert The summer of 2019 is setting up to be a memorable one for The K’s. After successfully claiming a main stage set at the INmusic Festival in Croatia, the Earlstown boys are not just settling for that. They have now signed a deal with Alan McGee’s … Continue reading

Live Review: Bloxx, Liverpool

Bloxx, APRE, Rivia, and Courting Phase One, Liverpool, 17 April 2019 Words and Photographs by Gary Lambert A Bloxx gig is always a reason for celebration, so we were so pleased to be spending Wednesday night with the London four-piece at Phase One in Liverpool. It’s a healthy sign of the constant expansion of the … Continue reading

Album Review: Fontaines DC – Dogrel

Album Review: Fontaines DC – Dogrel Words by Gary Lambert There has been considerable hype about this Dublin band and what they could do, so I think most of our music world has been waiting for Dogrel to drop going on the amount of Happy Dogrel Day posts I saw on release day. This is … Continue reading

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