Andy Von Pip

ANDY VON PIP - Founder, editor, writer, reviewer, photographer and all-round good guy at the VPME.com.House photographer for The Academy Music Group, Zuma Press, Event Magazine and Rex Features worldwide. You can check out his photography atAndy Von Pip PhotographyCurrently writing for U.S. Magazine and website Under The Radar.Andy been new music tipster on BBC6 Music, Amazing Radio, and DJ on Strangeways Radio (USA.) Regular podcasts can be found on Mixcloud and Spotify.He's also been a moderator for BBC 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson's Fresh on the Net, and a former member of "BBC's Sound Of" panel. Written and photographic work has been published worldwide wide and appeared in the likes of The Guardian, The Times, The Quietus, Music Week, Record Of The Day, GIITV, The Sabotage Times, The Skinny, Louder Than War.

Track Of The Day – Hatchie – Sugar & Spice

10/04/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Track Of The Day – Hatchie – Sugar & Spice If you’re a fan of artists such as The Cocteau Twins, The Sundays, Lush, Chapterhouse then Hatchie could well be right up your musical street.

In Pictures : Arcade Fire Live At Manchester Arena – 8.04.18

10/04/201809/04/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Arcade Fire Live At Manchester Arena Arcade Fire Live At Manchester Arena : Arcade Fire brought their acclaimed live show to Manchester Arena and left the audience spellbound. The critics may have been given the bands

Featured Artist – Kino Kimino

15/03/202206/04/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Featured Artist Kino Kimino Welcome to our new “featured artist” erm, feature … or perhaps if we were being more truthful we should call it ‘artists we missed the first time around’ … because there

Track Of The Day – Swoon- Fun Police

05/04/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Swoon Fun Police ‘Fun Police’ manages to live up to its title, energetic, spiky, brutal, relentless and you can imagine it’s a hell of a lot of fun to perform live. Indeed the accompanying video

In Pictures – Evanescence – Synthesis Live – Manchester Apollo 2-04 -18

04/04/201803/04/2018 by Andy Von Pip

EVANESCENCE Live Mon 2nd April 2018 O2 Apollo Manchester Multi-platinum selling U.S. rock (dare we say goth) band Evanescence brought their Synthesis Live tour to Manchester Apollo, performing with a full orchestra. We were there to take

VPME IWFM Radio Show – March 2018

30/03/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Von Pip Musical Express on IWFM Radio Show Well, there’s not been a whole lot of blogging going on of late due to other commitments, but we’ll be throwing more musical fuel into the engine room

Sound City 2018 – 150 more artists announced plus day splits

29/03/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Liverpool Sound City 2018 Sound City Friday 4th – Sunday 6th May 2018 Taking place across Baltic Triangle and Cains Brewery, Liverpool www.soundcity.uk.com Twitter: @soundcity / Insta: @liverpoolsoundcity To be honest Liverpool Sound City, for

Track Of The Day – You By Pink Kink (Live Session)

19/03/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Track Of The Day You By Pink Kink Now then, this could be a first for the blog as today’s track of the day hasn’t even been released officially as far as we know. Regular

Credit: Chris Gorman

Video Of The Week – Belly Shiny One

13/03/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Video Of The Week – Belly Shiny One Without getting into a misty-eyed reverie about the days before streaming and ‘instant gratification’ a time when you actually had to wait to buy a song, I

Track Of The Day – Chløë Black Good Times

12/03/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Track Of The Day – Chløë Black Good Times ‘Good Times’? F**k yeah, we could do with some of them at the moment. Obviously when velvet-voiced singer-songwriter and pop noir queen Chløë Black sings about

Credit : PR Brown

Recommended Gigs April 2018

02/03/202212/03/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Recommended Gigs April 2018 EVANESCENCE – Mon 2nd Apr @ O2 Apollo Manchester, Beneath the huge stadia razing tunes award winning multi-platinum selling American alt-rockers EVANESCENCE where always one of the more interesting U.S. acts that

Track Of The Day Frankiie Glory Me

08/03/2018 by Andy Von Pip

Track Of The Day Frankiie Glory Me This is good. Vancouver 4 piece Frankiie start off sounding like The Shangri-Las, then Fleetwood Mac, there’s even a bit of Springsteen in there, all wrapped in a rather