Daniel Fellowes: Photographer

“Having to chase bands members around the stage means with my lens that it never gets boring.” Everyone has their own way of staying on their toes.

Daniel Fellows is a budding photographer, with a keen eye for live shows and models. Read more

Billy Talent Live in Leeds

Billy Talent tour the UK on the release of their latest album, Billy Talent III. After a postponed event, Leeds 02 Academy is still full of people eager to see the band. Read more

Hotly tipped local band - The Chapman Family

Despite their name The Chapman Family firmly insist that they are NOT a cult. After openly admitting that they named themselves after Mark Chapman - The band received death threats over the Internet from angry fans accusing them of supporting john Lennon’s murder. But despite this shaky start the band has been hotly tipped as a band to watch this year.  Read more

Local Bands You Must See: Frankie and The Heartstrings

Each week InJournalism will bring you the very cream of Mackem musical talent for your listening pleasure. This week in the form of Frankie and The Heartstrings.

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The Futureheads play charity acoustic gig at Independent

“Any chance of making it a little bit later mate? I’m running late” admits The Futureheads bass player and founder member, David ‘Jaff’ Craig when I ring him on Saturday afternoon. Read more

JLS to perform at Campus

Sunderland University students are becoming starry-eyed with the excitement of coming up close and personal with X Factor finalists JLS. Read more

Donkey Rock and More

It’s Saturday night in Paddywhacks.  On stage, Monologues guitarist Jack Briggs breaks into a solo, playing ‘Purple Haze’ behind his head. Everyone stops everything else. Around the bar some people smile and nod in appreciation, while others are wide eyed in disbelief, compelled to watch as he plays across the different riffs. From that moment on, you know the Monologues are everything but ordinary.

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Alan Kelly and the Dogs of Tralee

My friends seem to think old music became old because it had been done to death.

The songs somehow got so tiresome people stopped doing it and forever put it in the category of overdone, “I’m sure it was interesting at the time, but we’ve moved on since yesteryear, we want something original.”

I disagree. With the ever more familiar repetitive nature, bands that look like they’re sponsored by top man and a ‘whacky’ name to be a real band are constantly hailed as the new ‘new’ by doing the same thing, at least that’s all I can hear. The same thing. Read more

Oxjam festival at Sunderland

Oxjam in Sunderland

Chief organisers of the national Oxjam music festival are confident that the event will be a roaring success when the bands roll into Sunderland this Saturday.

This month has seen the launch of a programme of gigs leading up to the Oxjam festival in March 2009. Drawing on the North East’s diverse range of bands and artists, Oxjam will be hosting four very special launch events in the region and will be coming to Sunderland’s Independent venue this Saturday. Read more