
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 minutes‘Raised on sitcoms’ – weren’t we all, back in the day? The telly was full of them, and by and large they were funny. But

Reading time: 3 minutesRural Tapes (Norway) – Patchwork (single/track from album Contact) Rural Tapes (Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen) has visited us a couple of times, most recently just in

Reading time: 2 minutesKaspar had an unusual beginning. The duo formed 20 years ago after meeting when they (John McGregor and Mikael Hakkarainen) sat next to each other

Reading time: 2 minutesThere’s always one thing you can be sure of with Norway – its musical practitioners will always come up with a new interpretation or a

Reading time: 4 minutesWeekend Intermission is is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up

Reading time: 2 minutesThe Copenhagen duo Glas (Lisbet Fritze and Louise Foo) was here only a few weeks ago with a catchy electro-pop song about dancing with fairies.