Articles by Kimberley-Marie Sklinar
Never Enough Notes is the brainchild of Kimberley-Marie Sklinar. Kim’s favourite bands are We Have Band, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Wild Beasts, Death Cab For Cutie, Interpol, Phoenix, The Police and Radiohead…and that’s a shortlist. She’s an alright writer and a terrible guitarist…and an even worse snowboarder. Kim is from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, but has settled in London over the past few years. Having written for numerous publications and websites including The Smoke, allgigs.co.uk, The 405 and The Beat Surrender, Never Enough Notes was created almost as a dare in 2009 yet grows every day. Kim’s best gig – Radiohead @ Blackpool’s Winter Gardens. Worst gig – Peter Green’s set at The Secret Garden Party festival (the festival itself blew her mind!). Kim is not very good at writing about herself in the third person. She greets animals in the street. Kim deals with the overall running of Never Enough Notes.
Make friends with Penguins and Mike Tyson, with Penguin Prison…
When my best pal told me she’d bought stocks in a young musician with the same surname I thought, “ahhh that’s nice, very supportive, probably crap”. I didn’t expect 1 year later to be invited to said musicians gig and find this cocky frontman with down-to-earth friendliness and a stage presence that was a little too big for Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms…
Meet The Gay Blades – and read our interview about cheesecake, branded lear jets and Mancunians
Produced partly in the Mohave desert in California by Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), and partly in New York by James Ford (Klaxons ‘Myths of The Near Future’) the band have come a long way from Sheffield, a fact reinforced by the mature style of music displayed throughout ‘Humbug’…
The Sunshine Underground are some of our favourite honorary Northerners, if they were a cake we’d probably let them use a less-savoury Yorkshire Pudding. Due to launch an EP in November, the lads are keen to continue interacting with their fans and use their art on the cover sleeve.
We spoke to Daley from the band about naked men, their art competition, and McDonalds birthday cake…
MySpace – fun. Wow! The gaming generation are spawning some amazing talents with such a depth and breadth of influences it is quite astounding. The intro track to fun.’s first album ‘Aim and Ignite’ takes you through the influences of the campest of Queen, with a dash of Mika and a spray of the show [...]
Download Fences, a ten-track goodie from Phoenix, then mix it up!
MySpace - Lou Barlow Woop! Woop! It’s a great time for the lovers of all checked-shirt-wearing US alt-rock bands from the 80s and 90s out there – Dinosaur Jnr unleashing one of the albums of the year with “Farm”, Bob Mould (Husker Du) cracking off a great set, Pavement reforming and now Sebadoh & Dinosaur Jnr [...]
MySpace: Lofty Heights Californian beach music hits London warehouse – Lofty Heights’ debut single ‘Eye Contact’ is a multilayered cacophony of orchestration with the instantly likeable, heartfelt vocals of Greg Griffin, a West Coast transplant to these shores. Spun with slide guitar, luxurious cello and la la la backing vocals ‘Eye Contact’ is a tune [...]
MySpace: Extradition Order As a folk singer’s daughter who was brought up with fisherman-jumper-clad beardy singers around her breakfast table plucking banjos, when I was asked to review the anti-folk movements Extradition Order’s 1st album ‘Since The Bomb Dropped’ I giggled somewhat whilst humming fidley-ridley-roll. The anti-folk movement itself was born in Greenwich Village, New [...]
MySpace: The Leisure Society Everyone loves a bit of Leisure. The Leisure Society release new single ‘Save It For Someone Who Cares’ out on Full Time Hobby, on 28th September. This is followed by the re-release of debut album ‘The Sleeper’, which also includes brand new 8 track mini-album ‘The Product Of The Ego Drain’, [...]
“Hilarious” and “Ridiculous” are two words that spring to mind when summing up sounds, antics and general tomfoolery of The Gay Blades. They possess tunes entitled ‘Bob Dylan’s 115th Nightmare’ and ‘Why Can’t I Grow A Beard’, they refer to themselves as The Aristocrat of Crime and The Snitch, and there is often a break [...]
MySpace: Extradition Order Northern boys are cool, especially when they have aqua guitars. Warrington lads Extradition Order, signed to I Blame The Parents Records, were full of Northern soul and promise as they took to the stage at East London’s Queen of Hoxton. The band seemed to pride themselves on some serious retro dressing and [...]
Hungamungans rejoice! In its second year, the HungaMunga Festival 2009 will soon be here for more arty crafty antics, with a fabulous array of music and comedy acts for your aural pleasure. Headlined by the magical, beautiful Alessi’s Ark, HungaMunga boasts a lovely line up including Tallulah Rendall, Tristram, The Bobby McGees, Gabby Young and [...]
MySpace: The Cribs Free download of We Were Aborted: MP3 – We Were Aborted (7.25 MB) “The biggest cult band in the UK” is how Q Magazine referred to The Cribs in 2008. Well if things continue down the same avenue, you could be reading this same statement to describe The Cribs again in a [...]
