Newton Faulkner: Turning the Tide
Having just returned from a day spent surfing, Newton Faulkner joins the video call from the beach town of Newquay where he is on holiday, two weeks prior to the release of his seventh studio album Interference...
Everything Everything: Reanimated and Ready for More
Tucked away in their dressing room overlooking a sunlit pitch at Hillsborough stadium, Jonathan Higgs (lead vocalist) and Michael Spearman (drums) of Everything Everything are lounging peacefully before their T...
James (Saul Davies): Life In Colour – “The Expression of Humanity is Music”
When The VLM spoke with Saul Davies, multi-instrumentalist member of Manchester legends, James, it was just two weeks before the release of All The Colours Of You, the band’s sixteenth studio album, which as we...
Inbox Interview: Moodbay
Moodbay are a electropop duo from the North East of England, consisting of producer-songwriter, Alfie Cattell, and vocalist-songwriter, Anna Stephens. They formed in 2017, after meeting at the British and Irish...
Cabbage: Psychedelic Mushrooms, Manchester Poets and a Moscow Deportation
Cabbage release their second studio album Amanita Pantherina tomorrow (25 September). The album has been described by the Tameside band "as a reaction to the last couple of years, losing a member and finding th...
Talking Heads With: Ben Taylor Founder of YANA Festival
Talking Heads is our regular feature in collaboration with DreaminIsFree, where we talk to folk working across all sectors of the music industry in the north, discussing mental health, well-being, and coping wi...
Sunship Balloon: New Music, Next Level Visuals, and Natural Wines
Formed in 2019 by Daniel Haggis and Tord Øverland Knudsen of The Wombats, Sunship Balloon, is the second export to come from the Liverpool band along with frontman, Matthew “Murph” Murphy's, solo project, Love ...
Alex The Astronaut: An Australian Songwriter Versus the Universe
From the time of our conversation, it is T minus nine days from the launch of Alex the Astronaut’s debut album, The Theory of Absolutely Nothing (released 21 August). The Australian musician (real name, Alex Ly...
Talking Heads with: Sophie and the Giants
Talking Heads is a new series in collaboration with DreaminIsFree where we talk to local bands from the north about mental health and coping with life in lockdown.
The music industry has been propelled into ...
Interview: Lucy Lu
Merging progressive jazz, euphoric symphonies and crooning vocals into an experimental R&B mashup; London-based producer Lucy Lu creates sounds that are quick to get obsessed with. Following the release of ...