Reviews
Live Reviews
BBC Big Weekend Sunderland 2026 Review: Everything That Happened Across Saturday and Sunday
★★★★★
Twenty-one years since Big Weekend last came to the North East. Worth every second of the wait. Here's what went...
Live Galleries
Best of Saturday — BBC Big Weekend Sunderland 2026 in Photos
A collection of some of the best shots from BBC Big Weekend Sunderland 2026
Live Reviews
BBC Big Weekend Sunderland 2026 — Saturday: Lola Young, Louis Tomlinson & Zara Larsson Deliver a Day We Won’t Forget
★★★★★
Zara Larsson headlined, Louis Tomlinson brought the North East to its knees, and Ellie Goulding reminded everyone why she's been...
EP Reviews
Review: Stella Lefty’s Is This Heaven? Is the Debut You’ll Wish You’d Heard First
★★★★☆
Six tracks. Just under sixteen minutes. And somehow, by the time it's done, you feel like you've known Stella Lefty...
Live Reviews
Alfie Boe Turns Cambridge Corn Exchange Into a Living Room Singalong
★★★★★
‘I enjoyed that more than I thought I would’ is the comment that drifts over the crowd exiting Cambridge Corn...
Single Reviews
The Rooks — Nothing To Lose Review: An Anthem That Means Every Word
★★★★☆
Some songs don't ease you in. They just open a door and dare you to walk through it.
Single Reviews
Chance Peña Turns Restlessness Into Something Beautiful on “The Voyager”
★★★★☆
Soulful and intimate, Chance Peña's new single "The Voyager" draws natural comparisons to Noah Kahan's quieter work — a warm,...
Live Reviews
Tom A Smith at Bodega Nottingham: This Is What a Sold-Out Final Night Looks Like
★★★★☆
The final night of Tom A Smith's sold-out run lands at Bodega Nottingham, and the room makes sure he knows...