Reviews
Contradictions (2015)
Despite moonlighting with his new band, Paul Smith doesn’t abandon his Maximo Park roots on this excellent new album
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Interviews
Maximo Park
Interview
Newcastle band Maximo Park's debut album 'A Certain Trigger' has been one of the bestselling albums from a new group this year. Aaron Brown talks to them about their success and acclaim, and instant popularity
Live
Maximo Park
Albert Hall, Manchester, 19/5/2017
Dixie Ernill watches Maximo Park, despite a below par current album, still put on a great gig at the Albert Hall in Manchester
Maximo Park
Warehouse Project, Manchester, 23/9/2010
Freddie Taylor-Shearer watches Maximo Park play a fiery and energetic set at the Warehouse Project in Manchester
Maximo Park
Academy, Manchester, 23/5/2009
At a sold out gig at the Manchester Academy, Dixie Ernill watches Maximo Park play an impressive set to their enthusiastic crowd
Maximo Park
Carling Academy, Newcastle, 10/12/2005
Maximo Park enjoyed a great year in 2005, with a Top 10 album, a sold out UK tour and a Mercury Music Prize nomination. At a homecoming Christmas gig in their native Newcastle, Jonjo McNeill sees the boy who left as small fry come back as stars
Babyshambles
Northumbria University, Newcastle, 28/9/2005
After a dreadful week in the media, Peter Doherty's Babyshambles band hit Newcastle. Jonjo McNeill watches them give a low key yet passionate performance in which the music far out played the hype
Kaiser Chiefs, Maximo Park and the Cribs
Apollo, Manchester, 15/10/2005
At the Apollo in Manchester Dixie Ernill watches the Kaiser Chiefs play a disappointing set in which they are far out classed by the other two acts on the bill Maximo Park and the Cribs
Features
Photoscapes
Maximo Park
In the latest in our 'Photoscapes' photographic series, Katie Anderson shoots Maximo Park at a show at the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth