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Danny Young throws some shapes during Dois Padres' opening set at the Leave The Capital tour show in Bedford Esquires
Music

Dois Padres return with new single to help you to dance away the dark days down at the crossroads

March 12, 2022 Ronny Trousers 7

‘How You Gonna’ is the triumphant return of hard-hitting moonshine marauders Dois Padres as they revel in a new era of rattle ‘n’ roll with the first searing cut from their forthcoming album, ‘Comin’ In […]

Gary Sweet watches from the directors' box at Kenilworth Road with club chairman David Wilkinson
Luton Town news

Hatters chief Sweet says Luton’s new stadium still set for music venue – and a football museum

February 25, 2022 James Cunliffe 13

Gary Sweet has confirmed that a music venue is still in the plans for Luton Town’s Power Court stadium site – but additional funding will be required.  A football museum celebrating the club’s history is […]

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 […]

Nishant Joshi, the frontman of KILL, THE ICON!
Music

KILL, THE ICON! Rock doc returns with protest punk to ‘dismantle your ideology’

November 22, 2021 James Cunliffe Comments Off on KILL, THE ICON! Rock doc returns with protest punk to ‘dismantle your ideology’

“You can’t strike fear into the heart of a man who has none,” opines Nishant Joshi at the end of ‘Buddhist Monk’, the incendiary debut single by KILL, THE ICON! – and he could easily be […]

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’, […]

Castlefest 2021
Music

Castlefest comes home for 7-day music marathon to ‘give something back to town’

September 18, 2021 James Cunliffe Comments Off on Castlefest comes home for 7-day music marathon to ‘give something back to town’

“You can always start again” that’s the mantra for Luton music festival Castlefest which makes a big return to the town after the 18-month national coronavirus shutdown of live gigs, returning to it’s “spiritual home” […]

Regressive Left
Music

Meet Regressive Left: Luton’s biggest new band pulling politics onto the dance-floor

August 27, 2021 James Cunliffe 1

“We’re definitely keen on saying we’re from Luton, as opposed to being another London band,” says Simon Tyrie, the frontman of Regressive Left, as he explains how moving to the capital with band-mate and fellow […]

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