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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 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 […]

The Castle
Music

‘2024 is set to be a huge year for us’ – The Castle to host Independent Venue Week shows

November 23, 2023 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on ‘2024 is set to be a huge year for us’ – The Castle to host Independent Venue Week shows

The Castle is to be one of 17 venues in the east of England and the only one in Bedfordshire that will be part of the nationwide Independent Venue Week in 2024. The annual seven-day […]

JW Paris.
Music

JW Paris’ unveil video for new single ‘Leave It Alone’

July 1, 2023 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on JW Paris’ unveil video for new single ‘Leave It Alone’

JW Paris have dropped a new video to their most personal song yet, the new single ‘Leave It Alone’. The ’90s grunge and Britpop-inspired three-piece featuring Luton duo Danny Collins and Aaron Forde and former Babyshambles drummer Gemma […]

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 […]

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 […]

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    Kaiser Chiefs to headline Luton’s biggest party of the year

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    Rock band Kaiser Chiefs have been announced as the headline act for Luton’s biggest music event of 2026 as the town celebrates 150 years of borough status. The Leeds group, best known for hits including [...]
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    Luton’s ‘next wave of future talent’ to take centre stage at expanded Market Hill Live music festival

    June 3, 2026 Comments Off on Luton’s ‘next wave of future talent’ to take centre stage at expanded Market Hill Live music festival
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    Luton Henge Festival to return ‘louder, bolder and more powerful than ever’

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