FEWS

Cologne, Germany

Part of this is undoubtedly down to producer Dan Carey whose work with multiple acts from Bat For Lashes to Kate Tempest to Bloc Party shows he knows how to capture the best of an artist.

It’s a brave band who throw their guitars on to the post-punk pile in 2017. The genre that launched a thousand Strokes tribute acts has fallen out of fashion in recent years, following a spell in the mid-00s when young, disillusioned white males were being factory farmed on an industrial scale for their neat

FEWS seem pretty surprised to see how packed out Hackney’s Moth club is, which would make more sense if they hadn’t just finished a string of dates with one of the biggest guitar bands of all time, Pixies.

Keith Goldhanger wanders along to catch them before they go on to play larger venues and gain the adoration of the nation.

Brighton Prince Albert, Brighton, UK

The temperature has been stifling in Brighton all week and tonight is no exception, a layer of sweat veiling each and every forehead in the venue before this evening’s headliners even pluck a single echo-laden note.