Album, Single, EP and Live Reviews

Live Reviews: John Cooper Clarke @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 03.06.11
Back in the Brudenell with a large group of old folks and a sprinkling of youth whose common problem is that they aren’t someone else, and a gangly figure shrink-wrapped in a suit falls onto the stage, ushering in a wholly reverent silence.
Posted on Jun 12th, 2011
Live Reviews: Bushstock 2011 @ Various, Shepherds Bush 04.06.11
The beautiful sunshine rays itself down onto these 4 Shepherd's Bush venues - The Shepherd's Bar, Ginglik, St Stephen's Chuch, The Goldhawk - as they prepare for an energy packed, heart warming festival to begin the season.
Posted on Jun 12th, 2011
Live Reviews: The Phoenix Foundation @ The Scala, London 02.06.11
It’s a beautiful summer’s evening and a packed Scala is buzzing with excited Kiwi expats (and a smattering of locals). They’re here to see six-piece guitar-pop veterans The Phoenix Foundation (named after a secret organisation in cult 80s US detective show MacGyver, fact fans!).
Posted on Jun 6th, 2011
Live Reviews: Akron/Family @ Bush Hall, London 30.05.11
With its high ceiling, cherubs and chandeliers, Shepherd’s Bush’s Bush Hall is one of the loveliest venues in the capital. The San Francisco psychedelic bands that tonight’s headliners have a certain kinship with first blew people’s minds in similar Art Nouveau ballrooms, so it seems an appropriate setting for Akron/Family to weave their magic.
Posted on Jun 6th, 2011
Albums: Nick Pride & The Pimptones - Midnight Feast Of Jazz (Record Kicks)
It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you do – we all need the funk in our lives from time to time.
Posted on Jun 6th, 2011
Albums: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Smoking In Heaven (Sunday Best)
Evolution and maturation are beautiful things in any band and on their latest album Smoking in Heaven, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis have grown considerably and found the tools needed to mine much deeper into their established sound.
Posted on Jun 6th, 2011
Albums: Wild Beasts - Smother (Domino)
After the release of Two Dancers in 2009, Wild Beasts have gained quite the following and were even nominated for the Mercury Prize. So can they keep up their reputation with their latest release?
Posted on Jun 6th, 2011
Live Reviews: Braids/Adult Jazz @ The Cockpit, Leeds 23.05.11
As much as we hate to do this, we have to start with a complaint. The Cockpit is a great venue if the band you’re going to see have the main room and not the tin can upstairs. Tonight the Hoosiers had the main room. No comment. And so we sloped up the stairs to the bunker above and experienced sound problems all night due to bad acoustics and a lazy soundman.
Posted on Jun 1st, 2011
Albums: Maybeshewill- I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone (Function)
Third album from Leicester instrumentalists extraordinaires.
Posted on May 31st, 2011
EPs: Stealing Sheep - I Am The Rain (Red Deer Club / Idle Fret)
Liverpool based all-girl trio deliver stunning, eclectic four track EP
Posted on May 30th, 2011
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