
LIVE! Of Monsters and Men – Manchester Albert Hall, 15th February 2026
Reading time: 4 minutesIt’s 13 years almost exactly to the day since Of Monsters and Men (OMAM) first played Manchester, riding high on the success of 2011 single

Reading time: 4 minutesIt’s 13 years almost exactly to the day since Of Monsters and Men (OMAM) first played Manchester, riding high on the success of 2011 single

Reading time: 2 minutesThere’s a lot of music coming out of Iceland right now, we’ve featured some of it in the last few weeks and it’s always good

Reading time: < 1 minuteI could have sworn we’d featured seven-piece central Sweden-based Me & My Kites previously but seemingly not. Their trademark is psychedelia crossed with traditional Swedish

Reading time: < 1 minuteSylvatic Black are Christopher Labi Rance and Miriam de Silva, neither of whom sound particularly Swedish but I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation. They

Reading time: 2 minutesAs I’ve observed many times you’ll find every genre under the sun in Iceland, together with those you’ve never encountered before and recent articles have

Reading time: 2 minutes‘SOS’ was ABBA’s finest track in my humble opinion but don’t expect any Bjorn and Benny stuff from Lennart Ginman whose domain lies in the

Reading time: 2 minutesLast time out power trio ‘Atom’ Chris Dall & Powerband were singing about ‘Ingen sikkerhed’, which means ‘no security.’ Now they turn their attention to