Steve Spithray

1 week ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

Every year to celebrate our birthday, we curate a free compilation album which showcases some of our favourite artists from the last year. We hope you enjoy this year’s selection! Download the album in full for free from our Bandcamp. Here’s a peek at the track from Melanie Baker…Geordie Courtney Barnett, Melanie Baker’s ode to Arriva unravels into a slacker rock paean to the loneliness of the night bus and the hopefulness that can still be found on the back seats there. Lovely stuff.

1 week ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

Image by andichrist19Every year to celebrate our birthday, we curate a free compilation album which showcases some of our favourite artists from the last year. We hope you enjoy this year’s selection! Download the album in full for free from our Bandcamp.

2 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

Every year to celebrate our birthday, we curate a free compilation album which showcases some of our favourite artists from the last year. We hope you enjoy this year’s selection! Download the album in full for free from our Bandcamp.

3 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

Image by Nostalgia KidEvery year to celebrate our birthday, we curate a free compilation album which showcases some of our favourite artists from the last year. We hope you enjoy this year’s selection! Download the album in full for free from our Bandcamp. Here’s a peek at the track from Bitchfinder General... If a name like Bitchfinder General isn’t enough to turn a few heads then the conceptual darkwave synth pop of Slasher Movie should do the trick.

3 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

A common gauge of talent is to be described by lazy journalists as ‘arriving fully formed’, so naturally brimming with creativity and performative ideas that it seems impossible to have not been honed over years. Of course it does happen. Durham brat poppers Zela’s debut headliner was a sold out Georgian Theatre show after releasing a couple of singles online during lockdown while Teesside newbies Perfect Chicken put on their own festival last year after a very small handful of shows of their own.