The Xcerts follow pulsating single ‘Do It to Myself’ with the tender and emotional ‘In Your Eyes’. A song Murray Macleod describes as ‘without question the most raw and personal song we’ve ever written’, it covers both the loss of bassist Jordan Smith’s mother to cancer and the breakdown of a ‘forever love’: ‘The closing…
Halifax-based singer-songwriter Ellur has shared ‘Dream of Mine’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘At Home in My Mind’ via Dance to the Radio on 6 February, 2026. A song about ‘feeling selfish for wanting to pursue a career that requires a lot of sacrifices’, it finds Ellur ruminating on the insecurities that come…
Featuring members of Heavenly, The Pooh Sticks and The Dentists, Swansea Sound have shared a fabulously festive single in ‘(I Wanna Wear A) Mirrored Hat Like Slade’ – It’s CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS after all. Available digitally and as a special CD inspired a greetings car designed by Swansea artist Catrin Saran James, the song opens with line…
Manchester singer-songwriter Phoebe Green has shared ‘Precious Things’ ahead of a UK tour next April. Covering the ‘Obsessive, almost fan-like behaviour that we can exhibit in romantic relationships’. With elements of Imogen Heap and St. Vincent in its sonic orchestration, the song finds Phoebe embracing a big pop sound that offsets the vulnerability on show…
We’ve already looked at the smaller acts set to storm this year’s 2000trees festival and picked out our top 5 must-see moments, but this is a festival about far more than just music… We first started going to festivals at the turn of the millennium and the bigger ones did not offer much choice when…
