Thursday 14 January sees the launch of a new weekly club, to be held at Champions music venue. The Armadillo Club is live music night aiming to appeal to bands and fans of (in the broadest sense) punk rock music. Since its musical conception in the seventies, punk has splintered of into various sub-genres, and ...

I’ve listened to a lot of music this year, as every year. A year ago on Dec 23rd I was halfway across the world en route to spending Christmas and New Year in New Zealand, I wote this from a Best Western in Stoke-on-Trent about to attend a Christmas wedding on the edge of the ...

I’ve always thought Blind Voyeurs have been a quality lead singer short of being an outstanding band. Over the last eighteen months (since the last time they performed live in fact) they have both acquired that lead singer, in the shape of Mark Wheeler, and finished recording their debut album Rule Of Thirds. On paper, ...

It seems so long ago. Late August, Endorse-It (probably our best weekend of the year) had just been and gone, The Gander was a slowly fading memory, and Champions was happening. We were busy. Very busy. Plus a re-launch for the site was long overdue. It needed weeding, overhauling… after being a tad obsessed with ...

This Saturday (12 Dec) sees us welcome the uber-talented London quintet Led Bib to Champions. Prior to being nominated for this year’s Mercury Music Prize Album of the Year the band were bubbling predominately under the radar, whilst still attracting the attention of various music mags and broadsheets. There was certainly high praise coming in ...