
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 minutesDenmark’s 802 turn their attention to that weird and wonderful year of ‘1986’ when the Challenger Space Shuttle blew up, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme

Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s a little disconcerting when you receive a message from new band and then find they’re so new that their followers could hold meeting in

Reading time: 2 minutesOh boy, here’s a blast from the past. Anne Lise Frøkedal and her band Familien was one of the first Nordic artists I ever reviewed

Reading time: 2 minutesI really enjoy introspective, self-deprecatory stuff like this and have done since I first heard Ida Wenøe’s marvellous ‘The Self-Pity Song’. drea, out of Bergen,

Reading time: 3 minutesAlterne (Denmark) – Finland (sample track from the album Alterne) Two songs from Alterne’s debut album have already featured in NMC, both of them thoughtful

Reading time: 2 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