February 15, 2010
As Download reveals its headliners, there’s heady debate amongst festival goers whether the UK’s biggest rock weekend is going to be a disappointment. With AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine... [Read more...]
November 9, 2009
TITLE: Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide To The Orchestra RELEASE DATE: 23rd November 2009 RATING: 3/5 Notorious for his time as panel leader on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, as well as his outstanding stand... [Read more...]
November 9, 2009
It is 20.30 and the temperature has dropped noticeably. Walking from Old Street Station towards Hoxton Square, drinking an Innocent Smoothie and using my phone’s GPS just in case, I’m meeting Manuel... [Read more...]
November 9, 2009
NAME: Sleeping With Antares GENRE: Post Rock/New Wave Rock SOUNDS LIKE: Echoes of electric guitars and melting voices. The perfect fusion of post rock and experimental rock. They have been influenced... [Read more...]
November 7, 2009
Something is bristling in the music industry which could potentially see the next decade become very interesting indeed. An unlikely marriage of the internet, digitisation and the recession are slowly... [Read more...]
November 7, 2009
The rave boom. Where every self concerned working class guy and gal took to muddy fields and UV displays like flies to a rather tasty looking shit. A collective middle finger to the bludgeoning power of... [Read more...]
October 15, 2009
It seems a wise idea to keep digging deeper into the underground for bands nowadays. Aside from the fact that the underground generates gems faster than you can listen to them, it also holds a much higher... [Read more...]
October 13, 2009
12 STONE TODDLER plus FREERUN, SIERRA ALPHA + REMODEL Wednesday 21st October 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London £5 IN ADV / £6 W/FLYER / £7 DOOR http://www.wegottickets.com/event/58238 12 STONE TODDLER... [Read more...]
July 14, 2009
La Roux: Not Norwegian So I could have sworn La Roux was Norwegian. Honestly, I’m sure some DJ or other introduced her new track as being by “Norwegian-born La Roux”. And so, as I bopped along... [Read more...]
July 9, 2009
Many musicians will tell you that when they hear their weapon of choice blasting through a set of speakers, out of all the wonderful associations they could draw from the sounds they can’t shake the... [Read more...]
June 28, 2009
We all know muzak. Its flavourless, repetitive, limp-wristed melodies that ooze from elevator speakers and piss off commuters waiting at train stations. Apparently meant to soothe those waiting, most will... [Read more...]
June 12, 2009
When describing something, there’s always leeway for a bit of contradiction. “That bottle is bluey green.” Well is it blue, or green? Neither. Reality isn’t controlled by the extremities of our... [Read more...]
Hanging around before the band came on at a gig the other day, I thought I’d check the posters promoting upcoming nights to kill some time. There were some pretty standard posters advertising some pretty... [Read more...]
April 18, 2009
With the vast number of subgenres branching off into the deepest reaches of experimentation, you’d think that there can’t be much musical territory left unchartered. Well think again. RHV presents... [Read more...]
April 14, 2009
Another rock band, another tour. Up for discussion this time are the Scottish rockers, Serpico. Apparently they’ve released a single, ‘We Own The Night’ and their album ‘Neon Wasteland’ is... [Read more...]
April 14, 2009
It’s staggering how many festivals there are in the UK these days. How they make any money is a mystery. Oh, wait: it’s not. They make their money from their sponsors, so Homecoming Festival (which... [Read more...]
April 9, 2009
You’ve probably got one in there now. Bubbling up to the surface of your conscious, only to submerge under a tide of new thoughts, then to re-emerge once more. It tends to be one particular section of... [Read more...]
April 9, 2009
Keeping it topical, we have a new London band on the scene called Wall Street Riots. They insist they picked the name a few weeks before the “current economic climate” (among other annoying euphemisms)... [Read more...]
April 9, 2009
The best ironies are music ironies. Son of Dave, the Canadian singer and musician, is releasing as a single a third track from his 2008 album, ‘O3’. It’s called ‘Ain’t Going to Nike Town’,... [Read more...]
April 7, 2009
We’ve all experienced at some point or other the aggressive effects of someone suffering the dreaded short person syndrome. But, contrary to what Randy Newman says, short people are a peaceful and prolific... [Read more...]
