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Natasha Rainey

NCTJ-qualified journalist with over five years of experience capturing contemporary culture through compelling profiles, interviews, and reviews. My work in publications like Bricks Magazine and RANGE Magazine showcases my inquisitive …

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Elizabeth Aubrey

Freelance arts and culture journalist/lecturer. My work is regularly found in NME, Evening Standard, The Guardian, Empire, The Quietus, GQ, The Independent, MixMag, Crack and more.

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Sammy Andrews

York, UK based Assistant Album Review Editor at Distorted Sound Magazine Specialising in hardcore, emo, and indie reviews and features. Featured in Distorted Sound, Redbrick, Gigwise and The Unwritten.

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Adam Wright

Manchester-based Music Journalist

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Marcus Wratten

Hello! My name is Marcus Wratten. I am a London-based freelance journalist with a particular interest in feature writing. I have bylines in Reach publications including MyLondon, The Mirror, SomersetLive …

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Latest Articles

Album Review: Birdy - Portraits | Gigwise

If you think you know what you’re getting from a Birdy album, think again. Expecting intimate piano ballads, I was swept into the synth filled opening track ‘Paradise Calling.’ A burst of energy, and an upbeat assertion of ‘all I ever wanted was something to believe in’, Birdy throws you …
By Sammy Andrews
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The BIMM Staff Crisis: How The University Are Turning Their Backs On Staff | Gigwise

In July 2022 BIMM Institute was granted its official university status, being one of the most popular music universities due to its accessibility, previously the colleges awarded their degrees under the University of Sussex’s name but now when receiving a qualification it will be rewarded by BIMM University — doesn’t …
By Jack McGill
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#MeToo Didn't Work - Music Needs To Do More

Music’s worst kept secret is making headlines, again. In the hallowed annals of press recovery, we find words “allegedly”, “claims”, even “real victim” sewn into a fodder stew satiating and silencing that one conversation we all love to side-step when it comes to people we like. Surprise, surprise, it’s sexual …
By Natasha Rainey
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Album Review: Billie Marten - Drop Cherries | Gigwise

Four albums into her career, Billie Marten is not reinventing herself. On Drop Cherries, Marten is instead, turning further inwards. Examining, musing, and ruminating on love, Marten makes introspection her own. Opening track ‘New Idea’ feels like a wistful entrance into the imaginative space of the album. Simple hums and …
By Sammy Andrews
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Album Review: Beach Bunny - Emotional Creature | Gigwise

At various stages of anxiety, confidence + love Beach Bunny’s sophomore album Emotional Creature sees the group finding their feet both musically and individually. The album is an exploration of the need to grow, adapt and change, finding beauty in the vast kaleidoscope of human emotions. Arriving with a brash …
By Sammy Andrews
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Album Review: Violet Skies - If I Saw You Again | Gigwise

Taking you on an emotional journey If I Saw You Again is a vulnerable and honest debut album from Violet Skies that sees the singer-songwriter finding her own voice. The stripped-back and intimate record is a collection of melodic piano and guitar tracks with each song feeling like an invitation …
By Sammy Andrews
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Album Review: Body Type - Everything Is Dangerous but Nothing’s Surprising | Gigwise

Sydney’s Body Type have made their mark and planted the seeds of success for a promising future with their debut album Everything Is Dangerous but Nothing’s Surprising. From rageful and cathartic 'The Brood', to the wading bedroom reality of 'Couple Song', Body Type have produced an album full of bites …
By Jack McGill
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Album Review: Walt Disco - Unlearning | Gigwise

Walt Disco’s debut album is a melodramatic and self-explorative step out onto the stage. A stage show in two acts, Unlearning, pulls together entrancing production and sprawling soundscapes to interrogate love, flings, heartbreak and identity. As much of a product of our times as it is of musical legacy, Unlearning …
By Sammy Andrews
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Album Review: Babeheaven - Sink Into Me | Gigwise

Babeheaven’s latest album sees the band leaning into a much more eclectic range of influences and sounds, melding elements of R'n'B and electro-pop into their dreamy indie sound. Atmospheric and ethereal, Sink Into Me is a melodic delve into disillusionment, loss and yearning for human connection. Babeheaven enter Sink Into …
By Sammy Andrews
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'Some of my biggest memories are from Donnington': Korn’s Ray Luzier in Conversation

Lauded as one of the first groups within metal to fuse hip-hop with nu-metal, (not that they need the introduction), Korn are a notorious asset to the evolution of metal. Set to unleash their fourteenth studio album Requiem via independent label Loma Vista this Friday (4 February), Requiem welcomes honourable …
By Laviea Thomas
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Interview: Beans on Toast on lockdown, live streams and cultivating positive change | Gigwise

“After my last album I didn’t want to write a record abut the end of the world,” admits Beans On Toast wryly. Now, thanks to nine weeks and counting of enforced lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Essex-born singer-songwriter is facing that very scenario. With two singles – ‘Strange Days’ …
By James Ayles
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Album Review: Leif Vollebekk - New Ways | Gigwise

'An album that rewards long-time listeners but is equally comfortable at sharing its heartbreak to newcomers' An album that rewards long-time listeners but is equally comfortable at sharing its heartbreak to newcomers, Leif Vollebekk’s New Ways is a startling, intimate record that delves deep into the musician’s world. Starting with …
By James Ayles
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