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.

Wolf Alice – Yuk Foo

09/03/202212/06/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Wolf Alice come back swinging, with their punkiest, noisiest, dirtiest most feral moment yet and it’s immense. It’s two years since their critically acclaimed debut ‘My Love is Cool’ and new single ‘Yuck Foo’ is

May 2017 – Spotify Playlist

11/06/201711/06/2017 by Andy Von Pip

It may well be June, but May isn’t quite over … yet. We’ve decided to do monthly Spotify playlists to round up music we’ve featured on the blog, music we haven’t quite managed to write about,

Track Of The Day – Touts – Political People

08/06/2017 by Andy Von Pip

So election day is here and we are faced with a stark choice. But we aren’t about to lecture you over your voting habits, there’s quite enough ‘virtue signalling’ and hectoring on social media from

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Liverpool Sound City 2017 – Highlights

09/03/202207/06/2017 by Andy Von Pip

UK music festivals can often be a hit and miss affair, this is usually due to the depressingly uncooperative British weather rather than the music (unless it’s the lamentable V- Festival which would be ear-perishingly

Track Of The Day – Alvvays – In Undertow

06/06/201706/06/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Canadian jangle poppers Alvvays today announce their second album, Antisocialites, the hugely anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut album which became something of a touchstone for the lovelorn and heartbroken. The first fruits of the

In Pictures – Cherry Glazerr / Dream Nails – Get It Loud In Libraries – Liverpool

06/06/2017 by Andy Von Pip

A couple of weeks back L.A.’s Cherry Glazerr brought visceral supervision to Liverpool Central Library with an unhinged set of power and melody. And this was possibly the first time I’ve ever seen a front person arrive on

Liverpool Sound City – Day 4 -Photo Gallery – The Kooks, She Drew The Gun , The Sherlocks and more

11/02/202031/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Day 4 at Sound City and arguably the best one in terms of festival vibes. Mike Sheerin, Tom Adam, Andy Von Pip, Graham Smillie, Mark Holmes and Ernie ‘Phil’ Greenhalgh were on hand again to

Sound City Day 3 – Photo Gallery – The Kills, Slaves, Peaches, Carl Barat and more

30/05/201730/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

The VPME photo team were on duty at for Day 3 of Sound City and here are our visual highlights Photography by Phil Greenhalgh, Graham Smillie, Mark Holmes, John King, Mike Sheerin, Tom Adam and Andy

Sound City Day 2 Conference – John Cale – Velvet Underground and Nico 50th anniversary

27/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Sound City – Day -2 – Photo Gallery Day 2 kicked off with the conference at Camp and Furnace with Don Letts and Peaches in conversation with Dave Haslam were the stars of the show. Then

Sound City 2017 – Day One – Photo Gallery – The Human League, The Art Of Noise, A Certain Ratio

26/05/201726/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Liverpool Sound City kicked off last night with sets from A Certain Ratio, The Art Of Noise and The Human League. Graham Smilie, Phil Greenhalgh and Andy Von Pip were on hand to capture the action!

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Liverpool Sound City Preview 2017 – Under The Radar Artists To Catch

25/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Whilst Manchester and Liverpool have always been rivals the cliche “there has always been more that unites us than divides” has never rang truer. Indeed Liverpool Sound City was actually started by accident after founder

Liverpool Sound City Previews – A Certain Ratio Interview

19/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Whilst A Certain Ratio are often referred to as one of the most influential bands to come from Manchester there’d be many a music fan who’d be hard pressed to name more than a couple