Video Of The Week – Texas Hippie Coalition
Today’s Video of the Week selection sees a tale of girl power backed by some pretty sweet bluesy southern rock from Texas Hippie Coalition, with their visualization for the track ‘Moonshine’.
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Slam Dunk – Leeds, Temple Newsam Park – 25 May 2019
Long revered as the home for all things pop-punk and alternative, Slam Dunk has made itself a flagship brand in the festival market, putting on the kinds of line-ups that seem to have featured every single up-and-coming hot act that could possibly fit within the brackets of punk, hardcore or metalcore. For all of its differences from its predecessors (most notably in the lack of a Midlands date which sees a lot of familiar faces from the heartlands plonked up North, and in the larger festival site of Temple Newsam Park), Slam Dunk 2019 is still doing its damndest to champion acts old and new that represent the best of alternative culture with the likes of Angel Du$t, Milk Teeth and Anti-Flag all on early in the day as if to prove just how stacked this year’s line-up is.
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Cormac Neeson – Belfast, The Black Box – 24 May 2019
Deep in the heart of his home town’s historic Cathedral Quarter, The Black Box was the venue on the successful tour for The Answer frontman and Mencap NI ambassador Cormac Neeson, who had not only decided to spread his wings and fly solo, but also record something that is quite removed from what you would be used to hearing him perform.
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Jaye Jayle – Birmingham, Hare and Hounds – 30 April 2019
Rich H reckons that Jaye Jayle deserves better. Playing in Birmingham for the first time amidst a number of dates around the country (including a recorded appearance at Desertfest), it feels like the fates have conspired to provide a poor backdrop for the night’s show. Not only is it a dreary Tuesday in April (thanks, British weather) but the venue has barely a dozen people in by the time Jayle takes to the stage with his band, making an intimate venue feel almost cavernous in its unused space. But then, as if to spit right in the face of fate, the band go and put on the kind of performance that makes you want to grab your mates and drag them by the ears to the next show.
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Hollowstar/Florence Black/The 501s – Ebbw Vale, EVI – 25 May 2019
After the demise of the Muni in Pontypridd an opening arose for a small venue to step into the huge gap left… enter the EVI. A former library in the Valley steeltown of Ebbw Vale it is becoming a good place to go to see up and coming bands. The sound is usually spot on, the bar is in the same room as the gig and it’s a fair-sized open venue. Everything our Valleys correspondent could really expect when it came to facilitating a rock ‘n’ roll show, right?
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