From 14 to 16 January, the annual Eurosonic/Noorderslag showcase festival will take place in Groningen, The Netherlands. This year with a lot of former Incubate/ZXZW artists included in the line-up! We tip bands you might like.

When the Belfast Child sings again, you get pompous Night of the Proms old wavers thinking they’re god. But if you give a Belfast kid a guitar, drums and records of …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Death, Fugazi, Isis and Explosions in the Sky, you’ll get a jawdropping sound that will rip your eardrums to shreds. If you like your post-rock free of big gestures and, even, a voice… Hell… if you like guitars, you surely love And So I Watch You From Afar! They haven’t named one of their songs ‘Set Guitars to Kill’ for nothing.