Francis Smith, Author at Counteract – Music | News | Food

Slade Rooms is a smaller, more intimate venue in Wolverhampton. With a capacity of 550 standing, it plays hosts to live music and comedy.

Venue guide: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton

The Civic Hall complex houses two different main stages within it including the 1,134 capacity, all-standing Wulfrun Hall.

Kai is one of three winning short films in Magnum’s Vie Magnifique competition – watch it here.

The Bohicas are a rock and roll band with a levity that brings splashes of character to a tried and tested sound.

Josh Tillman resurrects his twisted alter ego to great effect on I Love You, Honeybear.

Former Beatles icon Sir Paul McCartney ended a twelve year absence from Birmingham last night with a 40-song, 50-year-spanning set.

‘Sunshine’, the opening track, has all the makings of the summer feel-good hit; off-beat, surging drums; catchy synth and guitar hooks.

Ah, Record Store Day. Christmas for vinyl junkies.

For All My Sisters may not elevate The Cribs into the ‘big time’, but that’s never been the Jarmans’ ambition.

As the pounding ‘Meat Is Murder’ reverberates around the arena, a sense of tension fills the air.