Joe's Big Toe

There’s been a lot of talk in and around Shef­field about Tram­lines this year. The free fest­ival began last year, attract­ing over 35,000 people, and returned this year big­ger and bet­ter than before, with an estim­ated foot­fall of 60,000 on the Sat­urday alone. The fest­ival is spread out over fifty or so dif­fer­ent ven­ues across the town centre, with Devon­shire Green, a 9000 square metre area in the city, home to the main stage, with a capa­city of 8,000 people. Head­liners this year included Mys­tery Jets, Echo & The Bunnymen, …

Stray­light Run have announced that they are now on an “indef­in­ite hiatus”. How­ever, Shaun has quit the band for good.
Zoli Teglas (Ignite) is Pennywise’s new vocal­ist. Allegedly, it happened as a res­ult of a mis­di­alled tele­phone num­ber.
As part of the Olympic cel­eb­ra­tions in Van­couver, a pro­ject called “Live­City” was con­ceived, to bring live music to Van­couver for free. Alex­is­on­fire were play­ing one of these free con­certs, and unfor­tu­nately the crowd rushed the stage, and sev­eral people were hurt.
The first batch of bands con­firmed to play Down­load this year are: Rage Against The …

If you don’t know who Pocket Satel­lite are, you’ve missed out. We reviewed their first EP here, and as you can see, we loved it.
We Chased Sol­diers was one of my favour­ite tracks on the Pho­to­graphs and Shells EP. It makes an appear­ance on this EP as well, and sounds sub­stan­tially the same. Maya’s incred­ible voice, the del­ic­ate gui­tar and soft piano are all still there. But this ver­sion sounds alto­gether more pol­ished. The pro­duc­tion is bet­ter, there are a few more bells and whistles, but the biggest dif­fer­ence is …

You could be for­given for under­es­tim­at­ing the import­ance of tonight. Just another stu­dent run night, in a stu­dent venue, that’ll barely turn a profit. It’s true, of course, but that’s not a good enough reason to dis­miss it, espe­cially not when you’re look­ing at the line-up. Anna Leddra-Chapman, The Brights, and The Sound Ex, all of them just wait­ing to tip over the brink to take them into the big time. The venue is a little small, per­haps, and a little out of the way — indeed, pretty much off-limits …

At some point in our lives, each and every one of us real­ises that music can be beau­ti­ful. Whether you real­ised recently, with the likes of The Fray’s “How To Save A Life”, or earlier than that, with tracks such as Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, that real­isa­tion can com­pletely change your per­cep­tions about music as a whole. If you’ve not had that moment yet, then fol­low the link below, and pre­pare for your life to take on a whole new mean­ing. Pocket Satellite’s first ever E.P. is …