Chris Broom

It’s hard to beat the description that the Urban Voodoo Machine have given themselves: “Bourbon-soaked gypsy blues bop’n’stroll.”

To call The Courettes a ‘garage-rock band’ is to do them a disservice.

Night Currents is a music-lover’s dream.

At the end of her set – her first ever gig – it’s revealed that opening act Jasmin Alloway only turned 15 three days earlier (those assembled sing her Happy Birthday...).

The Addams Family have been around for nearly 90 years now, having made their debut as cartoons in The New Yorker in 1938.

If you ventured down to the Round Tower in Old Portsmouth recently, you might have seen an intriguing exhibition – a window into the psyche of artist Mark Kellett.

When Julia Othmer and Carol Hodge met in 2018 while in separate acts supporting legendary Welsh rockers The Alarm, they quickly recognised kindred spirits.

It’s Halloween, so of course Skindred are going to lean into this.

​On the way into tonight’s show, audience members are invited to scribble down three things and place them into their respective baskets: your greatest fear, a texture and a favourite saying or song lyric.

For a group that was thrown together to play a festival when his previous bandmates were unavailable, The Jim Jones All Stars could yet prove to be the defining band of the garage-rock godfather’s career.