
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: 4 minutesHilding (Sweden) – Waste (sample track from the album Love Songs for the End of Time) Hilding (Halding Karlsson) is a Swedish songwriter based in

Reading time: 4 minutesDelish (Norway) – the Shell (single/future album track) Delish ( the duo Natali Abrahamsen Garner, Johan Lindvall, joined latterly by Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard and now

Reading time: 2 minutes‘Loose Ends’ is, at nine and a half minutes, the longest song that Forwardman (the band name of its leader Sakari Viittala) has ever written,

Reading time: 3 minutesTerje Gravdal likes his EPs. The last one came out only a couple of months ago and already the next one is here. He also

Reading time: 2 minutesOne of the hardest acts to follow in the music business is Beyoncé, who just happened to turn up here yesterday with her latest album,

Reading time: 5 minutesWeekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up a