Josh Ong – Music Editor
music@quenchmag.co.uk
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Live Review: Royal Blood at Newport Centre, 10/8/19
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After breaking into the music scene in 2014 with...
Album Review: ‘Television’, by City Calm Down
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Category - Music
If you’re looking for a cross between everything you once found on MySpace and the Camp Rock soundtrack, then Australian ‘alt-rockers’ The Getaway Plan...
Wave goodbye to ‘MMMBop’, kids, Hanson are back with a cleaner, more mature release (you would hope so after nearly twenty years in the game) that...
Just before they took to the Great Hall to support Bastille, Amy Endacott took a quick five to catch up with To Kill A King frontman Ralph...
Liam ‘Maccers’ McNeilly has a little chinwag with self-proclaimed “Drunk Folk Singer” Beans On Toast at Clwb Ifor Bach.
You spend a...
Heading over the Atlantic for their first UK headline tour, Los Angeles’ self-confessed ‘soul punx’ letlive. caught up with Tom Connick...
9/10
With contemporaries Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana (if we count that Paul McCartney collaboration) making music again, Seattle rock icons...
‘We play loud. We play heavy. We play hard. We play fast.’ claims Woking-based hardcore band Palm Reader. The crowd gathered at Cardiff’s intimate The...
You’d think that so many females in one room would cause a problem but Kate Nash and her ‘girl gang’ were the complete opposite. Support acts...
Kate Nash is back touring with her self-released third album ‘Girl Talk’. With a punk vibe not far off the girl power scene of the 80’s, it’s a far cry...
It was difficult to know what to expect as Birmingham 5-piece, The Twang, arrived in Cardiff for the penultimate date of their UK tour. Their previous two...
There’s always a degree of cynicism when someone best known for their acting career tries to reinvent themselves as a musician. Hugh Laurie, the English...
Birmingham was once the home of heavy metal, with Judas Priest and Black Sabbath both calling the midlands’ heart their home back in the 80s. But now...
“I don’t think there’s any crowd like a Welsh crowd.”
With a successful fourth album out and a gig on home turf as part of their headline tour, Hannah...
If you’re looking for something a bit different from Cardiff’s live music, Chapter Arts Centre is your first port of call. Recently, Finnish band Oddarrang...
Twelve years is a long time. A twelve-year-old child would be starting secondary school, discovering the other sex were perhaps not solely cootie-carriers, and...
When one talks about the modern Welsh music scene, you’d be hard pressed to avoid mention of Funeral For A Friend. Over the past twelve years, Funeral’s...
9/10
For fans of: The XX, Lana Del Rey and chilled out pop electronica.
I’m not a big fan of hype. Perhaps that’s just my cynical side shining through, but...
Festivals have seemingly become an integral part of most students’ summer holidays. Why not then combine a typical love of festivals with an even more...
The summer of 2013 will be one I remember in one of two ways; as the first of many wonderfully weird ArcTanGent festivals, or as the time I went to that new...
This year’s Green Man Festival, tucked away in the sprawling beauty of the foothills of the Black Mountains, opened amidst a confusion of rain and shine. Yet...
