Itchy City guide to Great Britain. Food, drink, film, music, stage, events, shopping, offers and competitions within Great Britain.

Five Bands Itchy's Fallen in Love with this Spring

Time to spring clean your playlists!

The Itchy Guide to Getting into Gigs for Free

Spending money is unnecessary. Honest.

Itchy's Alternative Christmas Soundtrack

Just in case you can't stand to hear Band Aid even once more

Thea Gilmore - Murphy's Heart

A good album we bet you've not heard yet

Summer Camp

Joy Division + Girls + Valium = Summer Camp

NME Radar Tour 2010

I liked them before they SOLD out

On Tour: Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

Thou shalt not not go.

Leftfield on Tour: Win Tickets

Let the bass ROAR

Win a Topman T-shirt & signed Charlatans Album

Clothes AND music. We're so nice to you.

Russian Standard Vodka: Free gigs in November

Win VIP gig tickets and DRINKS. Go us.

Arcade Fire go Arena Crazy

Wake up and win a little

All Tomorrow's Parties Bowlie 2

Belle and Sebastian gather some wonderful bands for a winter's weekend

NME Awards Shows 2011

Start booking for 2011. Yes, we mean it.

Camden Crawl Xmas Party

Crawl into Christmas

Album: Regina Spektor - Live in London

Regina, REGINA.

Beth Ditto Releases Collaboration with Simian Mobile Disco

An EP? Well DONE Beth.

Young Knives at the last.fm Festival

...and Chapel Club and The Futureheads, but we like Young Knives best.

Jeffrey Lewis: Drawer of Comics, Writer of Songs

He knows the name of every dinosaur.

Exlovers Announce Tour & Give Away Free Download

A tour, a song, no crazy exes in sight. PHEW.

The Go! Team

Do not pass Go! (Do not collect £200)

Live: Example @ Shepherd's Bush Empire

He came, he saw, he thrilled the crowd.

Marcus Foster

Get your moody folk fix

How to Deal with Bad Gig Etiquette

Mate, could you get your armpit off my FACE?

Live: Kyla La Grange @ Notting Hill Arts Club

La Quite Good

Live: Jaga Jazzist

DoobeedooWOP.

Itchy's Top Ten Overseas Music Festivals

No need to camp in the mud

Live: Teitur

Well. That was embarrassing.

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

This will definitely help us NOT to be blue

Live: Ben Howard @ Glee Club Birmingham

Itchy's in love.

Bands in Transit

Now with added Ed Sheeran!

The Flowerpot Sessions

The pub is no more but the gigs live on

Cults @ The Jericho Tavern, Oxford

If we were looking to join a cult, it'd be this one

Live: Villagers @ Glee Club, Birmingham

Itchy wells up for Conor.

Live: Dizraeli & the Small Gods

Folk-hop poetry brilliance.

Suffering Glastonbury Withdrawal Symptoms?

You'll get over it. Here are five lovely festivals with less mud.

See Benjamin Francis Leftiwch For Free This Week

Free live songs from our favourite music shop.

Live: Eels @ Somerset House

Slippery little beardos.

Festival-Going in Hindsight

5 lessons learnt.

Jools Holland at Henley Festival

Really rather lovely

Truck 14

Fields don't get much better than this.

Wilderness

Just how wild does Oxfordshire get?

Five Dreadful By-Products of The X Factor

You're distracted by Cheryl vs. Tulisa, and you've forgotten the truth

Submotion Orchestra

So many genres you'll run out of hyphens

Relentless Freeze Festival 2011

Not often you see snowboarders in the Big Smoke

The Go! Team at Memphis Industries' 13th Birthday

We are totally on team Go! Team.

Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler's 'This is Christmas' Launch Gig

It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaaaas! (but that doesn't mean it's also the 80s)

Slow Club at the Union Chapel

It's an indie Christmas tradition miracle

The Jon Cohen Experimental: Behold

A nice bit of clever indie.

Mikill Pane EP Launch at The Book Club

Who wants to see a live set from THE artist to watch in 2012?

Ben Howard at Hard Rock Cafe

Can we take him home, please?

Explosions In The Sky @ O2 Brixton

Look how far they've come!

Top 5 Festival Line Ups

We want summer and we want it NOW.

The Futureheads are BACK.

We're pretty excited.

Labrinth's Album Launch, One Mayfair

We predict an earthquake up in here.

Field Day 2012

It's getting sooner!

Record Store Day 2012

Saturday April 21st will be a day of CELEBRATION!

New Faces Compilation from Communion Records

Some big names and, erm... some new faces.

Lower Dens - Nootropics

Drums. Drums. Drums.

Molly's Lipps at Green Door Store, Brighton

We had a chat with the frontman.

Dot to Dot Manchester 2012

With The Drums, Summer Camp and Bastille

Playfest 2012, Norfolk

You can camp in something called a squrt - we're sold.

Applecart 2012

It's only two, but it sure packs a punch.

Coldplay at Emirates Stadium, London

It was para-para... paradise. Seriously.

Latitude 2012

We know it's bad to have favourites, but this might be our favourite.

Spring Offensive @ St Barnabas Church, Jericho

Oxford's own geek chic band.

Itchy's Summer Sounds 2012

Songs you NEED to hear. NOW.

Truck Festival 2012, Oxfordshire

Itchy's top picks for the weekend

Splendour 2012, Wollaton Park, Nottingham

Dizzee, Razorlight and Katy B get splendid.

Truck Festival 2012

Oxford's finest moment.

Brisfest 2012: What can we expect?

Party at Ashton Court!

Secret Garden Party 2012

Eyes on Film (with some guy called Carl Barat?)

Ex Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things singer is back!

Itchy's Top 5 songs for the last sunny days of summer

MAKE THE MOST OF THEM!

Itchy's Top 5 Cutting Edge Indie Tracks

Get your bedroom dance on.

Relentless Freeze Festival 2012

Bring on the slope action!

Sofar - the new way to find your next favourite band

Coming soon to a living room near you!

Itchy's Top Tour Picks for Autumn

We love folk

Itchy's Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Tracks

Turn of the century girl power tuuuunes

Brasstronaut – Mean Sun

Canadian turbo-pop

Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg

It's a Bugg's Life

Madness @ the Capital Fm Arena, Nottingham

Dad dancing at the ready!

Opera di Peroni

Opera in a warehouse, plus beer - yes please.

LIVE REVIEW: Bastille

An enigmatic bunch.