Our Lost Infantry have had a stunning year, topped off by the release of their debut album ‘The New Art History’, via Deep Elm Records in November. After their final celebratory show of the year at the Aldershot West End Centre on 14 December, the band are already making extensive plans for next year and…
We all know how it goes over the festive period. Radio stations, offices and work parties all play those all-too-familiar Christmas songs on a constant repeat. At Spectral Nights, we have bad memories from 10-hour shifts at a famous supermarket where the same CD was on a loop throughout. There was no restbite from this…
Foals headed on a tour of small venues across the country to road test new material from their new album ‘Holy Fire’, released on 11 February 2013. Appearing at Aldershot’s West End Centre for the first time, the five piece brought along stellar support in the shape of fellow Oxfordonians Trophy Wife, whose mixture of…
Signed to the brilliant Alcopop! Records, it is with great sadness that this Tuesday (11 December) sees Jumping Ships play their farewell show at The Prince Albert in their hometown of Brighton. As the band move on to pastures new, we thought we should celebrate their all-too-brief career. Spectral Nights first saw them play upstairs…
One of the finest bands in the country, The Xcerts kicked off their Wintour in Aldershot’s West End Centre on Saturday 1 December. No strangers to the venue, and always full of compliments for it, the three-piece have taken a few months off touring to settle down and write their third album. The new song…
A collaboration between Ryan, Liza and Matt from Derby’s You Animals and Nestor from Sky Larkin, Menace Beach is a band that the term scuzzy pop sums up perfectly. Their debut EP was released as a limited edition cassette (hand screen printed, no less) on the French label Desire Records and captures the spirit of…
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