FLARE Music Magazine

09/06/2024

From wrestling to Japan, new music to Red Stripe, we cover it all with FloodHounds over a few beers at Shakespeare's 🍺

Join the Quezzie King for a pint with Floodhounds at our favourite Sheffield pub, Shakespeare's. --Background music: Night Drift, The Cleaner [AY9KHPH7QB5NKXG3]

10/05/2024

“With Venus as my ruler, it’s in my blood to fall in love each day, to live and breathe romance. I don’t want to peel the stubborn, rosy lenses from my eyes, but I’m too tired to learn that I should have known better again. Admittedly, too selfish to give anything more than this.” 

New short poetic essay, ‘The Romance of Unhealthy Love in the Twenties’, is now live over on FLARE.

25/02/2024

What a bloody belter! Thank you so much to everyone who came down to our showcase and gallery on Thursday night at ✨🪩

It’s always a dream to host events with such wildly talented individuals, so a big thank you to everyone involved too!

Summer showcase anyone?…👀

19/02/2024

Have you got your tickets yet? Only 3 days left! ✨

Buy tickets to FLARE LIVE SHOWCASE AND GALLERY on Thursday 22 Feb at Yellow Arch Studios | FIXR

23/01/2024

Who’s ready to meet our showcase line up? 👀

Aimée is a graduate of Crawford College of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Art. After winning multiple awards for her work, she held a graduate curatorial residency at Sample Studios in Cork.

With a heavy focus on witchcraft and the female form in her pieces, Aimée blends raw materials and contemporary themes to delve into the macabre.

Aimée Leahy Cork-based SCULPToR and art history student Pictured: Aimée Leahy     Aimée is a graduate of Crawford College of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Art. After winning multiple awards for her work, she held a graduate curatorial residency at Sample Studios in Cork. With a heavy fo...

15/01/2024

NAH THEN! Join us at for a night of art, poetry, jazz, ethereal alt-rock, gothic charm and a bloody good boogie at our February showcase 🕺🪩✨

22/02/2024 - Tickets on sale now!
https://fixr.co/event/flare-live-showcase-and-gallery-tickets-909364561

07/06/2023

NSYNC? Backstreet Boys? Real names? Hot takes?…

Join our editor Libby and Mr. Relatable, Mickey Nomimono, for a pint at one of Sheffield's finest boozers, The Shakespeare...

Join our editor Libby and Mr. Relatable, Mickey Nomimono for a pint at one of Sheffield's finest boozers, The Shakespeare.

27/02/2023

Missed Drastic//Automatic's headline show? We've got you covered 👇

By Libby Driscoll

19/02/2023

“Psychosematics is a rousing explosion of intense emotion, texture and musicality…”

Read all about the latest release Floodhounds over on FLARE.

📝 Thomas Bridger

By Thomas Bridger

17/02/2023

(The Finish Line) uncannily conveys the feeling of not being in control as life passes you by, as you’re forced to rush through it, fighting the feeling of motionlessness…

Read all about Drastic//Automatic's latest single 'The Finish Line' below.

📝 Ollie Newing

By Ollie Newing

08/02/2023

David John Brady’s masterful portrayal of emotion is well and truly captured by the harmonic and timbral melting pot that is ‘Recursia’...

Read our first review of 2023 for David John Brady's album, ‘Recursia’ below 👇

Words by Thomas Bridger

By Thomas Bridger

02/02/2023

Who's ready then?...

By Libby Driscoll

11/11/2022

Regardless of the touchingly brutal problems he boldly addresses, Mickey Nomimono inspires us with persistence, as his optimism dominates the distressing nature of his vision behind ‘How Does it Taste’…

Words by Liv Moseley ✨

By Liv Moseley

30/10/2022

Welcome… to PURGATORY 🕸️🕷️

A huge thank you to Fluorescent, Ku Di Grah and Django Jones and the Mysterymen for blowing the bloody roof off CHEAP DATES last night 💥

And another massive thank you to everyone who came down and had a boogie with us 👻

Here’s to hoping those heads aren’t too sore this morning!🍹🎃🦇

14/07/2022

“The performance gave a pronounced reminder of the enormous, and seldom recognised influence The Coral have had on the revival of guitar-based indie and neo-psychedelia of the past couple of decades”

Jimmy Loughlin takes us back to the Spring with his review of The Coral’s performance at Sheffield’s very own Leadmill...

Words by Jimmy Abington

12/07/2022

“With many core memories formed, many old friends seen, and new friendships started, it felt like a one big family finally came back together and just had the best time possible”

Post-Outbreak blues anyone? Relive the insane weekend with Ollie below!🤘

By Ollie Newing

07/07/2022

now then.....mardy bum

THE FAMILY returns with another creepy comic 🐊🐈‍⬛

Artwork by Izzy Watson ✨

30/06/2022

OPINION PIECE: ‘THE SALE OF POP MUSIC UNDER NEO-LIBERALISM’

…by the time you finish reading this article I hope you’ll be completely clued up on the economic state of popular music and thinking “yeah f**k neo-liberal capitalism and f**k corporations for commodifying the art of music”…

Give it a read and let us know what you think! Do you agree?

Words by Rhini Townend ✨

By Rhini Townend

27/06/2022

Introducing THE FAMILY!

We’re expanding the content of FLARE this summer, and what better way to kick it off than getting to know the characters from our new comic section, THE FAMILY?

THE FAMILY are a collection of characters created by who we’ll be getting to know over the coming months... Who says adults are too old for comics, eh?

28/04/2022

Who’s out then?!

Absolutely over the moon to announce this incredible line-up of creatives, we’re already counting down the days 🕺🏻

Keep your eyes peeled for the up and coming artist profiles where you can learn a little about our acts!

Tickets available here: https://www.flaremusic.uk/flareliveshowcase

27/04/2022

Cheers to those who voted and helped us decide on our new look, and an even bigger thank you to for creating the logo, go hit him up for your graphic design needs!

Now we’ve got out shiny new look… who’s ready for the FLARE Live line up announcement this week? Free pint on us if you correctly guess one of our acts 👀

04/04/2022

Shadowy art installations, ferocious rock n’ roll, ethereal poetry, a nod to Warwick Davis and a questionable email from Olly Murs all but skims the surface of SAINTES headline show at Sidney and Matilda...

By Libby Driscoll

04/03/2022

One singular drumbeat sent the crowd into a frenzy. Their debut single, and a very popular fan favourite, What a Waster, immediately sent bodies flying throughout the crowd- it was clear that even over twenty years later, the energy and passion remained.

Check out what Liv had to say about the Libs in Sheffield last week…

By Liv Moseley

18/02/2022

In case you didn’t catch our announcement, we’re pleased to be launching FLARE Live this spring!

Submissions are still open for the next two weeks for musicians and artists to perform and display their work at our showcase in May.

Interested? Send an email to [email protected] with an example of your work and a bit about yourself 🤘🏼

15/12/2021

“Despite the unspeakable fate that bestowed itself upon Curse of Lono’s frontman, each track lingers with an air of presence, and dare I say, slight optimism, welcoming the embrace of the future and the coarse journey of grief ahead”…

By Libby Driscoll