“It’s really shit out there at the moment, but at least there’s good rock music,” Martha’s JC Cairns proclaims, and tonight’s line-up highlights that there’s never been truer words said. The County Durham punks headline a show that encapsulates a room full of people completely infatuated with the message on offer. More accustomed to playing the living rooms of friends and family across the North East of England, tonight represents one of the largest shows Martha have played. Armed with a back catalogue of songs about social alienation, the crippling nature of the welfare state, nostalgia-laden tales of young love and railing against the establishment, they are a band very much needed in 2019. Warming up is math-pop four-piece Orchards who spread an infection energy through the room with bo...