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JW Paris onstage at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Luton's Stockwood Park
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Documentary celebrates emotional JW Paris homecoming at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Luton

May 30, 2025 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on Documentary celebrates emotional JW Paris homecoming at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Luton

A year on from their homecoming performance at Stockwood Park, JW Paris have released a new mini-documentary celebrating their emotional return to Luton for Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2024. The grunge-tinged Britpop-influenced trio — made […]

ScreamingMechanicalBrain vocalist Nik Scott and guitarist Ashley Clark onstage
Music

ScreamingMechanicalBrain unveil epic new music video for 13-minute sermon

May 16, 2025 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on ScreamingMechanicalBrain unveil epic new music video for 13-minute sermon

Luton alt-rock heavyweights ScreamingMechanicalBrain have released an epic new video for their towering latest single, that’s oceanwide, hell deep and heaven high, standing as a bold new landmark in their sonic journey. Titled ‘Some Of […]

ScreamingMechanicalBrain singer Nik Scott. Photo by Craig Short
Music

ScreamingMechanicalBrain release ‘back from the brink’ epic ahead of Castlefest

September 12, 2024 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on ScreamingMechanicalBrain release ‘back from the brink’ epic ahead of Castlefest

Rock nostalgia’s back in a big (and very expensive) way if you’re a music child of the 90s, but not everything comes for your wallet faster than a cannonball as ScreamingMechanicalBrain can testify with their […]

ScreamingMechanicalBrain live at The Castle
Music

ScreamingMechanicalBrain reimagine their epic ‘dual meaning’ debut

July 8, 2024 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on ScreamingMechanicalBrain reimagine their epic ‘dual meaning’ debut

ScreamingMechanicalBrain have re-written the murder ballad with their brooding new single, ‘Cardboard Hand Me Downs’ – a spellbinding epic which will put chills up your spine and a flame in your soul. Prepare to take […]

Tooth Marks
Music

Tooth Marks take bite of VB@H Live Sessions to shine light on grassroots music

May 10, 2024 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on Tooth Marks take bite of VB@H Live Sessions to shine light on grassroots music

Luton rockers Tooth Marks have said local acts can be “scared to play their own material” and that it “should be the other way around,” as they walk the walk by becoming the latest band […]

Luton band JW Paris are one of the artists on the Project: Leave the Capital 12-inch vinyl and UK tour
Music

‘It’s never been more vital to support grassroots music,’ say vinyl collective on verge of UK tour

February 5, 2022 Ronny Trousers 4

“It’s the most important Independent Venue Week that there has ever been,” says James Cunliffe, one of the co-conspirators of a grassroots music initiative conceived in lockdown to help support music venues and independent artists, […]

KILL, THE ICON! frontman Nishant Joshi
Music

KILL, THE ICON! set to release tribute to chef, storyteller and writer Anthony Bourdain

February 5, 2022 Ronny Trousers 1

KILL, THE ICON! return with their second single, with a track that explores the legacy of celebrated chef, author and cultural documentarian, the late Anthony Bourdain. Fronted by a Luton doctor who successfully took the […]

SOURDOUGH frontman Jacob Kyte
Music

SOURDOUGH return with sonic shockwave as first blast of new EP

January 28, 2022 Music and arts desk 7

Luton’s rebel-rousers, SOURDOUGH, rise again with their brand new sonic rampage, ‘Mind and Body’, released today (January 28) in collaboration with Vandalism Begins At Home – the town’s prime music & arts fanzine and record […]

Vandalism Begins At Home
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Luton Youth Festival links up with Vandalism Begins at Home for music showcase

November 22, 2021 Music and arts desk Comments Off on Luton Youth Festival links up with Vandalism Begins at Home for music showcase

Luton music collective Vandalism Begins at Home is curating a stage at the Luton Youth Festival Christmas Fun Day in Leagrave this Saturday, with live sets from some of the best young bands in the […]

Ali MacQueen
Music

Ali MacQueen returns with new single ‘One of These Days’

November 12, 2021 Music and arts desk Comments Off on Ali MacQueen returns with new single ‘One of These Days’

Ali MacQueen returns with his second single, ‘One of These Days’ – a “song about change in all forms,” says the songsmith.  The softly psychedelic alt-rock rouser, was inspired by Tim Hardin’s ‘Don’t Make Promises’, […]

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