Following Kneecap’s triumphant headline set on the Thursday night of this year’s 2000trees (read our review here), there was no sign of anyone – or the weather – relenting or relaxing on the Friday. Mallavora kicked off proceedings on the Main Stage with one simple message: ‘We’re a band called Mallavora and we’re here to…
We’re rapidly approaching festival season and there’s so much to look forward to this summer. Once again, some of the finest acts from the alternative sphere will be descending upon Upcote Farm in Gloucestershire for 2000trees Festival 2025. We’ll be there once again – and here are just five of the bands from the stacked…
Brighton trio Orchards return with new album ‘Bicker’ (released on Friday 28 March via Big Scary Monsters. Full of bittersweet lyrics about love and losing it, Lucy Evers says about the album: ‘There are sad songs, happy songs, songs of ambivalence and everywhere in between on this record. But it’s back breakingly true. Every word,…
Orchards have shared ‘Groan’, the fourth song to be taken from upcoming album ‘Bicker’, which will be released by Big Scary Monsters on 28 March. Inspired by a therapist asking her ‘Why do you feel the need to fix this?’, Lucy Evers weaves between feelings of frustration and catharsis as she realises the only person…
Orchards have shared ‘Drive Me Home’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Trust Issues’ on Big Scary Monsters on 26 November. Described by the band as an ‘anti-love song’ – ‘It’s that moment when you’re out and you see your ex who’s wrecked and even though you know you shouldn’t help because it ended…
Orchards follow up last year’s incredible debut album ‘Lovecore’ with the vibrant and important new single ‘Leave Us Here (We’re Fine)’. The song finds the band once again showing their desire to live in a safer and more accepting world – something we can all get behind. Lucy Evers says: ‘This song means exactly what…
It’s been a tough year, but so many of us were kept going by the phenomenal amount of music released over the past 12 months. We won’t claim any of these to be the ‘best’ – music is not a competition, especially in 2020 – but the following were all on constant rotation at Spectral…
Orchards have been a favourite of ours ever since coming across them playing a tiny tent at Brighton’s Together the People festival in 2015. Five years later and the band have signed to Big Scary Monsters, toured with bands including Indoor Pets and are now set to release their debut LP ‘Lovecore’. The record opens…
Brighton’s alt-poppers Orchards have shared new single ‘Sooner’ and announced details of a UK and EU tour next spring. Drenched in waves of nostalgia, the band say the intelligent pop song is ‘the start of the wormhole into our world’ and how ‘it’s reminiscent of days spent drinking on the beach, jumping in the sea…
Orchards follow last year’s ‘Losers/Lovers’ EP with the release of new single ‘Young’ (out on 7″ with ‘Mature Me’ via Big Scary Monsters on 29 March). The new songs will follow shows at New York’s New Collosus Festival and SXSW and accompany a UK tour. The alt-pop banger opens with Sam Rushton’s trademark upbeat mathy…
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