
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 minutesOve Markström (Sweden) – Du & Jag (single) Ove Markström was here not so long ago, in February, where we noted that he is very

Reading time: 4 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

Reading time: 2 minutes‘The Silence Roar’ is the third, and I suspect possibly the last, in the (current trilogy of) singles being released in anticipation of Johanna Brun’s

Reading time: 3 minutesMere Stellar is Milja Inkeri Makela (I think) and she’s a new artist but only in the sense that she seems to have reinvented herself

Reading time: 2 minutesTodd & Karen is a Norwegian-Irish duo out of Kongsberg, a mining town about 75km southwest of Oslo, and consists of Øyvind Berge and Ina

Reading time: 3 minutesThe BANG BANG BANGS (Sweden) – Disguise (single) That’s a rather evocative band name, isn’t it? I don’t think anyone is expecting a gentle ballad