Music in the North
Johnny James, Managing EditorSummer might be giving up the ghost, but gig season’s just warming up. From corrupted shoegaze to experimental electronica, post-hardcore to Indian classical, these are the shows that should be on your radar.
Shoegaze is back, and TikTok’s to blame. Find out why as we dig into unlikely stardom of the 20-year-old Wisp, who’s clocked up more streams than some of her heroes. You can catch her at The Deaf Institute, while TTSSFU, who takes the genre in a darker direction, plays at The Attic in Leeds.
On the electronic front, Skee Mask returns to The White Hotel with precision-engineered breakbeat-techno, and Halina Rice (for fans of Jon Hopkins, Max Cooper and Rival Consoles) lands at Liverpool Arts Club with a live AV trip that’s part rave, part art-happening.
Elsewhere MF Tomlinson threads Talk Talk’s experimentalism with 70s tinged folk at The Castle; New York art-punks Les Savy Fav breach your personal space at The Brudenell; and Dialled In present a triple bill at Band on the Wall, led by benju master Ustad Noor Bakhsh – a living link to Balochistan’s folk lineage.
Read about all this and more below.