FOREST FEST In IRELAND – 24/26 July 2026
FOREST MUSIC & ARTS FEST
Emo Village, Co. Laois, Ireland
24/26 July 2026
FOREST MUSIC & ARTS FEST
Emo Village, Co. Laois, Ireland
24/26 July 2026
Black Francis has been looking for his mind for 40 years now.
The band will trace it on their 40th-year milestone tour around
the world.
All dates HERE.
Let’s have a look back.
MELODY MAKER
1988
ROCKPOOL
1989
NME
1991
NME
2004
LOUDER THAN WAR
2019
24 March 2026
Hip-rap-hop icons WU-TANG CLAN started their badass career back in 1992.
They were not exactly a productive team with only 7 LPs in 34 years, but their
impact was huge.
As fans know, they started their last stand last June with The Final Chamber
tour, which brought them to the US, Europe, UK, Australia, and will hit Japan.
soon.
We already knew that they planned to return to the US during June/July, but
now the rap gang have added more dates, from August to October (see below)
Much lauded and award-winning Louisiana songstress LUCINDA WILLIAMS
released her acclaimed 16th full-length, titled World’s Gone Wrong last January.
She’ll present it to American audiences in May.
The albu doesn’t stream on Spotify or Bandcamp
20 March 2026
Britpop rocker MILES KANE released his 6th full-length Sunlight In The Shadows,
last October. Another feel-good record jammed with a series of rapturous rippers
and a couple of romantic ballads. No-nonsense, top-quality entertainment.
Last Tuesday, he landed, as part of a UK/Europe/US tour, with his band
in Antwerp, Belgium, only 2 years after his previous passage in our country.
Kane is a riveting rocker at heart and demonstrated that once again with a non-stop
salvo of jagged jackhammers, new and old, with a slower one here and there to refill the tank. No less than 8 tracks out of the new album’s 12 were integrated into the 18-song set. And they all fitted perfectly next to the golden oldies.
The 1500-cap venue loved (me included) every single second of his whirlwind performance. Live favourites Troubled Son, One-Man Band Rearrange, Inhaler,
Coup De Grace, Don’t Forget Who You Are, and ebullient climax Come Closer
went down a storm and were the expected standouts.
The euphoric spectators were clearly longtime fans. They sang, clapped, and cheered without interruption, propelled by the man’s highly charismatic magnetism and his overwhelming guitar riffage.
No much talk in between songs, except for the moment after finishing an enwrapping rendition of power ballad My Love, when his manager came on stage with a birthday cake for Miles, who turned 40. The whole venue chanted “Happy Birthday,” of course, and he was clearly touched by the loud, clear ovation.
Only smiling faces after the show. Again, music showed its
formidable force and immense impact on people’s state of mind.
TRACKLIST
Sing a Song to Love
Electric Flower
Rearrange
Troubled Son
Cry on My Guitar
Without You
Love Is Cruel
Inhaler
Sunlight in the Shadows
Blue Skies
Colour of the Trap
My Love
Heal
Walk on the Ocean
Coup de grace
Never Taking Me Alive
Don’t Forget Who You Are
Come Closer
NEW ALBUM
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Photos by Turn Up The Volume
19 March 2026
Celebrating three decades since the release (17 June 1996) of their debut LP,
British power-pop rockers PLACEBO, with original members, vocalist-guitarist
Brian Molko and bassist Stefan Olsdal, will release a RE:CREATED version.
It’ll feature new, reworked and embellished versions of all
10 tracks from the original album plus two bonus tracks.
Pre-order info here.
Placebo explains: “We think of this record as a director’s cut. We haven’t recreated
it from scratch. We went back to the original master tapes and brought 30 years of
playing these songs live back into the record.
This project was about finally finishing the record, dragging it into the 21st century
sonically, while preserving the integrity and the spirit of the original. It’s not about
improving it, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s about completing it.
It’s a celebration of where we began, and a meeting point between who we were then
and who we are now; a way of honoring that innocence, while letting the songs exist
with the scale, confidence, and energy of the band we’ve become”.
The band will play several UK and European shows to celebrate the event.
ALL DATES HERE.
Don’t do it, Brian, there’s a lot of work to do.
Original Album