
Live! Pom Poko (Norway) @ The Albert Hall Manchester, 20th October 2025
Reading time: 4 minutesI’ve seen Norway’s raucous math rockers Pom Poko six or seven times now but apart from a wondrous show at the Øya Festival in Oslo
Reading time: 4 minutesI’ve seen Norway’s raucous math rockers Pom Poko six or seven times now but apart from a wondrous show at the Øya Festival in Oslo
Reading time: 2 minutesYes, I suppose many of them are right now, especially in Venice and Spain where the natives are revolting over a perceived invasion, especially by
Reading time: 2 minutesThe four-piece ‘art rock band’ from Helsinki, Spotless Souls, seem to have a thing about oddball romances. Last time out, on ‘In the heat’ they
Reading time: 3 minutesUnashamedly I selected the sole English language track, ‘Buzzwords’, from (Christian) Juncker’s ninth studio album, ‘Fremmed for det meste’, (‘Foreign for the most part’), which
Reading time: 2 minutesMarionettes? Am I on the right track or barking up the wrong tree? What I do know is that The Mary Onettes are dream pop
Reading time: 7 minutesSo, only 14 years after they first formed, AURI played their first ever international show, and landed up in Manchester to do it, in the
Reading time: 2 minutesOccasionally I take a punt on a translation, despite my ignorance of the Nordic languages. But this one was easy. ‘Tak for dét’ is clearly