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Author: Graeme Smith

Editor in Chief of York Calling. Music lover, photographer and blogger.
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Spain’s Sehore Explores Humanity In Experimental New Single, IA

16/09/2026 Graeme Smith

In 2025, I featured Sehore’s Dadaist album Husfikbur and found myself enchanted by their experimental style.

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Discovery: Pivots Captivate With Compulsive Electronica and an Immersive Live Experience

14/09/2026 Graeme Smith

The modern world is a sometimes scary, sometimes exciting place and one act that are rising to meet the moment is Pivots.

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Live Review: Wilko Johnson’s Life Is Celebrated and Sanitised In New Dramatisation in York

11/09/202614/09/2026 Graeme Smith

Wilko – Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll celebrates the life of one of British music’s great eccentrics, Wilko Johnson.

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Love Ghost Celebrates Modern Mexico in Emotional New Album Cintas Perdidas

11/09/202611/09/2026 Graeme Smith

Our coverage of Love Ghost’s music goes back to 2023, and the act is never far from our pages. His new album is called Cintas Perdidas: México.

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Discovery: 21st Century Soothsayers Awake & Dreaming Drop Album of the Year Contender

10/09/202616/09/2026 Graeme Smith

The rapidly changing modern world in which we are beginning to question what it means to be human proves the perfect inspiration for one of 2026’s album of the year contenders.

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Tyson Dickert Surprises With Heavy Metal and More in New Album Supervoid

10/09/2026 Graeme Smith

This is the fourth time that Tyson Dickert’s music has appeared on our blog, so I’d like to think we’ve got a handle on it. Still, the Michigan-based rock artist has a surprise or two for us.

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Lion's Den, Manchester, Reviews

Photoset: Bradley Simpson Brings His Open Arms To Manchester

10/09/202610/09/2026 Graeme Smith

Bradley Simpson brought his community-driven live music night The Open Arms to Manchester’s Lion’s Den on 8 September, continuing a run of intimate sold out events built around championing emerging artists and grassroots music.

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Belgrave Music Hall, Reviews

Live Review: Lowertown Brings the Ugly Duckling Union to Leeds

10/09/2026 Graeme Smith

“I am ready to take on the responsibility and inconvenience that it takes to foster community, for without each other, we have nothing.” — Pledge from the Ugly Duckling Union Handbook (Found tucked in the vinyl sleeve of Lowertown’s latest LP).

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Discovery: Arms & Armour Draw on Portishead and Others for New Album The Hunted

09/09/202616/09/2026 Graeme Smith

Recording in a 140-year-old former drill bit factory proves the perfect environment for genre blending Cleveland, USA-based duo, Arms & Armour.

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