Day One – All Years Leaving, Birmingham 15/11/13
With a line-up as enticing as the one This Is Tmrw offered, it’s no surprise that their first festival turned out to be a hit.
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Live reviews of gigs in the West Midlands and album, EP and single reviews.
Day Two – All Years Leaving, Birmingham 16/11/13
When you get to a venue and they’re serving mulled wine by the entrance, it can only be a good thing. Cue a packed venue on the second day of This Is Tmrw’s All Years Leaving festival.
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Editors, O2 Academy, Birmingham 16/11/13
‘I couldn’t think of anywhere we’d rather be on a Saturday night, Birmingham’ exclaims Editors vocalist Tom Smith, mid-way through their latest homecoming show in the UK’s second city
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Suede + Teleman, O2 Academy, Birmingham 31/10/13
Suede took to the stage to the sound of rapturous applause – a sound that barely seemed to cease throughout their set.
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Future of the Left + The Wytches + Them Wolves, The Institute, Birmingham 09/11/13
Thankfully in Them Wolves, the perfect band were chosen to open up and clear the early evening cobwebs and make the crowd stand to attention,
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Deap Vally + Skaters + Black Dollar Bills, O2 Academy, Birmingham 07/11/13
Opening for Deap Vally are the free-flowing rock riffs of local band, Black Dollar Bills. With a set of booming drums and roaring guitars, this is exactly what you’ve come to expect from a support band of the Californian duo.
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Young Knives + Ralfe Band, O2 Academy, Birmingham 06/11/13
Front man Henry Dartnall even joked about Muse in a bit of crowd interaction, claiming ‘Muse aren’t very good…but neither are we’ as track ‘Something Awful’ from the album turned into somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Frightened Rabbit + Lanterns on the Lake + Paul Thomas Saunders, The Institute, Birmingham 11/11/13
Frightened Rabbit brought their imitable clutch of uplifting, hair-raising anthems to Birmingham’s Institute Monday, along with some formidable support acts and a beautiful sense of levity.
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Bovine + Antlered Man + Wax Futures + Cower, Hounds!, The Flapper, Birmingham 06/11/13
On it’s best day, nobody does heart-stoppingly loud, bullish music like the Midlands and that was evident once again on Wednesday night, where The Flapper was host for the hometown leg of Bovine’s joint UK tour with eclectic Londoners Antlered Man, and some other bloody good bands turned up as well.
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Gabrielle Aplin + Jack Savoretti + Emma Crowder, The Institute, Birmingham 05/11/13
Gabrielle Aplin has worked hard to be on tonight’s stage having played both the smaller rooms at the institute. She embraces the moment and takes it in her stride.
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