While listening to this new, typically idiosyncratic single by cosmic eccentrics Super Best Friends Club, I found myself split down the centre, psychologically speaking, until the two predominant aspects of my personality were standing in the middle of the room, facing one another down and shouting. Well. One of them was shouting.
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A free compilation album has been released featuring artists playing this years Camden Crawl.
“I’m Getting Ready” is out now to buy online and in stores. Check it out because I guarantee when you listen to it once, that will just be the beginning…see it here…
Australian band The Jezabels have released a tour diary of their most recent European tour including the UK in support of their recent album “Prisoner” and current single “Rosebud”. The band will also be returning to the UK this summer to play festivals: Jun 30 – Paddock Wood, UK – The Hop Farm Festival Jul 6 – [...]
No, it’s not a new band fronted by Ted Danson of the 1980s sitcom Cheers, but rather the Irish quartet The Cast of Cheers, who are ready to break into the music scene with the exciting release of their debut album, Chariot, on June 18th, but they are wetting audiences appetites with the release a [...]
If the new venture doesn’t take off for previous Wet Wet Wet member Graeme Clark it’s easy to imagine Ronan Keating picking up on one or more of these tracks and making a massive hit out of it. However, never before have the words ‘damning’, ‘faint’ and ‘praise’ been more fitting.
Paul Weller – soundtrack to many a youth – is still going strong and proves his worthiness amongst youthful hipsters with another solid track about a world without one of our music heroes.
It’s not often that you stumble across a promising new band and they can claim to have resided from the city of Hull. After all when most think of Hull, Lord Prescott, Philip Larkin and perhaps the Humber Bridge would be mentioned amongst a shortlist off the top of your head.
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Melons. Living in the Alligator. Towards the Onion. These are just a selection of the whimsically titled songs that Maia treated us to on a damp April evening in the intimate underground bar of the Slaughtered Lamb. Their playful titles prefigure equally playful lyrics and what could perhaps be (incompletely and inadequately) described as playful [...]
Electric Cables is an album of tender, observational songs, played with an invigorating and easy sense of purpose; the sound of friends enjoying one another’s company and allowing ideas and experiments to flourish.
The sheer number of top-drawer tracks on this album makes listing them all a moot point. There’s no space to highlight here everything that’s good about it.
You can almost feel the wind curling the clouds, working beautifully with his depictions. Like much of his work, Hockney seems to take colours that seem out of place and makes them seen natural, taking nuances and making them the focus of a piece.
It’s the sort of thing that gets played over and over on Six music until the tinkle of the opening bars actually makes you groan. Best to play something else.
The Roving Crows were met by huge applause from this room full of loyal fans all here to celebrate the band’s first commercial album. The first track showed off all the things I love about the Roving Crows – a distinctive vocal, strong drums, delicate fiddle work and some epic trumpet palying.
The setlist favoured the band’s just-released third album, Ghostory, but old favourites from Alpinisms and Disconnect from Desire were included too. Smiles abounded from all members on stage, with Allie, Ben and Alley frequently dancing and air-drumming throughout songs.
In fact I favour the production here where the melody and instrumentation takes the forefront not the clever knob twiddling that some producers feel they need to do.
His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble!
Who: Wildlife What: Guitars, bass, drums, synths, keyboards and harmonies from Toronto Formed by Ontario college friends Dean Povinsky and Darryl Smith in 2005, Wildlife’s early days were spent traveling and writing in the UK. Following time in and around Glasgow playing shows with musicians met along the way, the project returned to Canada. Joined [...]
The second-to-last weekend in June may never be the same again…
His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble!
