The Scandinavian songstress rose to popularity after garnering support from fellow Bergen creative and art-pop artist, Aurora. Storm joined the singer in Mexico for ‘The Gods We Can Touch’ tour, live at Pepsi Centre in April this year. Both musicians were discovered by one of Norway’s leading music management companies ‘MADE’ which has bases in Bergen, Oslo and London, and has an impressive roster of artists including pop sensation, Sigrid.

Watch her perform in The Diana Theatre, Guadalajara, Mexico on “The Gods We Can Touch” Tour

With an eclectic mix of influences, the artist takes inspiration from both classic and contemporary sounds citing household names such as Frank Sinatra, Amy Winehouse and The Beatles as well as current female singer-songwriter and producer, Susanne Sundfør.

A treat for the ears, the singer produces an organic, melancholic tone that melds beautifully with the driving instruments and production beneath her – creating a wall of indie-pop lushness. With her natural musical talent combined with a stratosphere of influences flitting from old to new, it’s no wonder her sound has been described as “timeless and immediate”.

Storm started crafting songs at the prime age of seven. Surrounded by music in both the choir and within her family home, the Oslo-born composer was driven to study music and went on to hone her skills at LIMPI (Lillehammer Institute of Music Production and Industries) as well as within the jazz department at Toneheim Folkehøgskole. 

In autumn 2022, she made strides in her career: signing with Petroleum Records and playing widely known festivals Vill Vill Fest and By: Larm where she amazed critics and audiences alike. This led to being booked for one of Norway’s biggest and most important music festivals based in Oslo: Øya. 

The singer is ready to follow in the footsteps of her Scandi contemporaries. Showering London with her catchy melodies and smoky vocals, she commits to her promising career as a recording artist stating “As long as I can keep making lots of music and live the life I am living now, it will be the best I could have imagined.” 

The unmissable event will be held at 7 p.m. on the 25th of October at The Blue Basement, Third Man Records in the bustling streets of Soho, London. Head to thirdmanstore.co.uk for tickets.

Here we go… you guessed it: @kinggizzard are heading to Brockwell Park next May. Our most requested headliner EVER We’ve been trying to bring these guys over every year & here we finally ARE!⁠
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Grab your tickets now as they are gonna fly https://t.co/5VBGfqThFH pic.twitter.com/4BKwmOmeGu

— Wide Awake (@wideawakeldn) October 3, 2023

The rest of the line-up is yet to be announced, with more announcements coming soon. This year’s edition of the festival saw Caroline Polachek perform as main headliner, with local bands Black Country, New Road, Warmduscher and Los Bitchos also in attendance. Other notable acts from this summer’s party include American psychedelic/alternative rock legends Osees, Swedish prog-punk pioneers Viagra Boys and Manchester-born, Berlin-based post-punk outfit The Underground Youth.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has long been a favourite of Wide Awake Festival owner Keith Miller, who has recently described his love of the band in a statement: “We’re so delighted to finally nail down King Gizz! It’ll be 10 years since I first saw them in the Shacklewell [Arms] when they hit the main stage. We’ve tried to bring them over every year, and they were our most requested acts from our fans survey. I caught them up at Manchester Psych Fest in September and it was unreal. You will not be disappointed!”

Fresh off the back of a headline show at the Manchester Academy in September, an event that coincided with Manchester Psych Fest, the prolific and highly energetic Australian band, who transcend music genres as easily as they sell out headline shows, will return to the UK next year to perform for thousands of endlessly loyal supporters.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have also recently announced their 25th studio album, The Silver Cord, and have subsequently released the first three tracks from said album, along with a combined music video of all three songs. The tracks, namely ‘Theia’, ‘The Silver Cord‘ and ‘Set‘, are a perfect testament to the group’s commitment to musical exploration, being experimentally electro in nature and distant from their garage and psychedelic rock beginnings, and certainly different from their previous album release, the thrash metal laden PetroDragonic Apocalypse.

Watch the music video for ‘Theia’, ‘The Silver Cord‘ and ‘Set‘ below:

You can purchase tickets for Wide Awake Festival 2024 here.

In a recent interview with plus44uk, they described their musical style as “Bringing back that throwback 90’s R&B, with a modern day twist.”

Since dropping their EP on the 1^st June 2023 Is It A Crime, they have found themselves headlining their own gig in London.

It will feature tracks from the EP such as “Is It a Crime” and “Committed.” They have come a long way from the 90’s R&B cover tracks they performed in a London car park; however, the traction has built from there, where they became one of the 6^th most watched videos on TikTok, with over 1 billion views!

New Musical Express aka NME have said this about the boy band “No Guidnce have the potential to become British R&B icons.”

The four members of the band Ebubé aged 20, Zeekay and Kaci, who are both 19 and Josh who is 22, are taking to the stage in the UK for the first time to headline at the Lower Third in London. The event will show case their unique modern twist to 90’s R&B as described by the band themselves.

The London venue is the perfect host for the young boy band to showcase their talents and perform their first headline act. The venue boasts on their site “We are a community celebrating creativity in all its forms. In a musically focused way.”

This seemingly novice venue moves from a cocktail bar, down into an underground venue with a staged area that can hold up to 230 people! This will be where the band is set to play their headliner of 2023.

The band dropped their new single called” Yeah, Yeah” on August 31st. Fans took to Instagram with their opinions of the new single to say “On repeat already.” And “They keep dropping banger after banger.”

No Guidnce are yet to confirm if this new single will be included in their headline show or not, or if fans will hear new material during their gig at the Lower Third in London.

The headline performance will take place on the 18^th September 2023 .

A recent post on No Guidnce Instagram feed said “London Family!!!! You guys sold out our first ever headline show in 2 minutes, we can’t wait to see you there!!”  No Guidnce are yet to comment on whether more tickets will go on for sale for their headline debut.

Tour dates

18/09/2023 – Lower Third – London

As promised, a leather-clad, cigarette-brandishing Matty Healy and co. turned back the clocks this weekend, indulging hardcore The 1975 fans with a setlist that wouldn’t have looked out of place on a 2013 Tumblr user’s dashboard. A culture-defining LP for young teens at the time, The 1975 was, in Healy’s own words, trying to capture “the apocalyptic sense of being a teenager” and remains emblematic of an era where a very niche subculture, characterised by black and white imagery of Dr. Martens and fishnets, provided a new online audience with a sense of identity.

Listen to The 1975’s live rendition of 2013’s “Heart Out”:

As evidenced by the huge crowd at Reading on Saturday, the record clearly continues to resonate with young people even today, with deeper cuts such as “Pressure” or “She Way Out” – songs which are rarely, if ever, played live – prompting enthused singalongs from an enamoured audience. The fact that a portion of the festival’s attendees made up a new wave of listeners, didn’t go unnoticed, either, with Healy acknowledging:

“This album, I don’t know, it feels quite relevant now, and you all look very young and you’re all enjoying it – it feels like the internet’s working in the way it should do.”

The frontman is correct in assuming that his band are as relevant as ever: their latest album landed them a TikTok hit in “About You” – a song which harks back to the sonic landscape and romanticised aesthetic first explored on their debut album. The group’s early hits, however, are still equally as potent, with crowd-pleasers “Sex” and “Robbers” showcasing The 1975’s enduring influence on fans. 

Check out their live performance of “Robbers” below:

Meanwhile, Healy was quick to appreciate his band had been gifted an opportunity at the expense of a certain Scottish pop singer:

“Well, first of all can we have the loudest round of applause in our set for Mr. Lewis Capaldi who couldn’t make it tonight.”

Capaldi, who has been struggling with Tourette’s syndrome, was initially set to headline Reading, but was forced to cancel a number of shows including the bank holiday weekend festival due to his wavering health.

In honour of its 10 year anniversary, The 1975 will be releasing a special edition format of their self-titled debut album, due to hit stores on September 1. The 1975 (10th Anniversary) is available for pre-order here.

For their full set at Reading 2023, head to BBC iPlayer.

The crowd during Fender’s set became rowdy enough that they were forced to momentarily stop the performance as Fender noticed a fan in need of assistance. He addressed the crowd, saying “We need some help over here, let’s stop.”

He went on to check that the fan was okay, asking, “You ok? We need help over here, we’re going to have to calm down.”

A source discussed the event with The Mirror, saying, “We’re not sure what happened but Sam acted very quickly and made sure that nothing happened until the medics and security got the fan out of the crowd.”

The incident occurred after Fender’s performance of “Spice,” with Fender going on to say, “well we’ve got the punky ones out the way now” after a mosh-pit led to a fan being in need of medical assistance.

Following his headlining sets at Reading and Leeds, Fender took to Twitter to share an emotional and heartfelt message with his fans, expressing what it means to him to have made it as a headline act.

He wrote, “To headline was unfathomable, me and the lads have always felt more comfortable as the underdogs, we’ve been the underdogs for 7 years – from our first show in Ullapool in Scotland, in that beat up van with doors that didn’t open, all the way to this weekend. The imposter syndrome is real, but I suppose that means it’s actually happening.“

Me and Dean went to @officialrandl when we were 18, my tent got set on fire when I was asleep in it. Me and Dean launched hotdogs out of tent poles at groups of lads chanting ‘Yorkshire’ just for a bit of fun, and kept up the long standing tradition of northern rivalry… pic.twitter.com/dhbDFLMvb8

— Sam Fender (@samfendermusic) August 26, 2023

as the underdogs, we’ve been the underdogs for 7 years – from our first show in Ullapool in Scotland, in that beat up van with doors that didn’t open, all the way to this weekend. The imposter syndrome is real, but I suppose that means it’s actually happening. We love you all x — Sam Fender (@samfendermusic) August 26, 2023

He also shared a montage of his Leeds performance, writing “One of the most monumental, life affirming, imposter syndrome inducing nights of our lives. Leeds… you put a fucking shift in! What a crowd.”

One of the most monumental, life affirming, imposter syndrome inducing nights of our lives. Leeds… you put a fucking shift in! What a crowd pic.twitter.com/7ssWIJEJBt

— Sam Fender (@samfendermusic) August 27, 2023

Watch Sam Fender’s performance in full here.