Taking Steps: Railcard at the Betsey Trotwood, Clerkenwell, London, August 2026. Photo: Steve Worrall Did I mention that Dolly Mixture were the second band I ever saw live? Well, somehow that was 4…

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Lie Down With Dogs, Stand Up With Fleas is the wiry and worldly first single from the upcoming, third British Birds album Murmurate, Oscillate. Lie Down With Dogs, Stand Up With Fleas by British Birds...

British Birds will release their third album Murmurate, Oscillate on Skepwax Records on October 11th.

British Birds share a rousing expression of exasperation at our passivity in the face of lame authority with single Lie Down With Dogs, Stand Up With Fleas, the first taken from their forthcoming albu...

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TikTok may be a fountain of brain rot, but Heavenly’s day in Portland shows that if it can get a screaming crowd out for their career resurgence, it can’t be all bad.

Here’s the full-version of JEFF PENCZAK’s excellent interview with AMELIA FLETCHER and ROB PURSEY (Heavenly, Swansea Sound, The Catenary Wires, Skep Wax Records) that appeared in issue #173 Shindig!: ...

In the 30 years since Heavenly released what had been their last album, Operation Heavenly, the world changed plenty. That wasn’t really the case for their fanbase though. In the 1990s, the English ba...

There’s a certain kind of determined optimism needed to keep an indie pop festival going in 2026. The kind you find in Cardiff over Easter weekend, where

Indiepop greats Heavenly will release their first album in 30 years, ’Highway to Heavenly,’ on February 27.