Next up on our new series, whynow Is The Time To Listen To…, we chat to Wolverhampton’s rising guitar rockers, The Jack Fletcher Band. Comprised of frontman and lead guitarist Jack Fletcher, virtuoso bassist Henry Bradley, flamboyant rhythm guitarist Kieron Ansell and thumping drummer Tom Robinson, they’re fresh off their biggest gig to date: playing in front of 3,000 people in support of McFly.
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Marcus Mumford takes on the suffering of his childhood trauma on his debut solo album, (self-titled).
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Maggie Rogers has found her inner rockstar. Three years after her polarising debut ‘Heard It in a Past Life’, the singer who first rose to prominence from a video featuring Pharrell, has settled into an identity after a nascent rise to pop stardom. She’s rid herself of the softness and often sanitised, benign aesthetic of her debut and launched into raucous rock, strutting blues riffs and unapologetic stadium pop hooks.
Glastonbury saved the best for last. In a weekend that had seen Paul McCartney duet with Bruce Springsteen, Olivia Rodrigo bring out Lily Allen and a blue-haired Jack White play a scintillating surprise set on the Other Stage, a little rapper from Compton vapourised them all.
