Monkey Rope used to be called The Others – they can probably have the name back if we can get […]
The problem with this album is that it has so many effects, clicks and whirrs packed in that if you’re […]
The heart longs to give Demeter a rave review, as then Anna Mercedes might like me and my little world […]
Cult-genius-in-incubation Freddie Stevenson has one hell of a supporting bill for someone on his first headline tour (cut to one […]
Once, Freddie Stevenson would have been a companion of statesmen and princes. A poet, a minstrel with a voice of […]
Flies aren’t spies from Hell. My money’s on wasps, or those midges you get in the Scottish Highlands; pick a […]
‘A tribute to sonic astronauts everywhere’; the way Hadrian Mordecai tells it, the destruction of his synthesizers by fire caused […]
Tim Huzar and Ollie Daffarn, creative brains behind Philanthropy, can be proud of themselves as at times it sounds like […]
It’s emo time, and this one’s sonically seductive. A pleasing stew of grumbling bass, guitar arpeggios and quietly ominous drumming […]
‘From Hibernation’ isn’t so titled just for fun. This is Germinal’s first release since an EP in 2001 and yet […]
Dialog were chosen by their management from over 1000 bands ‘to illustrate the high standard of artists’ they would be […]
Never trust a man with a voice like THAT, especially if he offers to show you his etchings. These will […]
We’ve got a live one here. Phantomatics pack more variety and imagination into three songs than you’d find in many […]
These are boozing, schmoozing, carousing regular guys and we know that because they tell us so. Their website and MySpace […]
A friend and I were brainstorming names for his new band, who were recording an album in the back bedroom […]
Graystar’s five singles from last year are collected on one disc here. Opener ‘Freaks’, a new song, is carried on […]
OI! GERROUUTOVIT!!! This is presented as a sincerely amateur production, recorded in Bob’s bedroom in Catford by a quartet who […]
A dose of ambition is a fine thing. It can lead to Lord of the Rings on Ice, but better […]
The deBretts’ brilliance is fast outstripping my ability to find new superlatives for them, so before the well done gone […]
The Dublin Castle has been raising comment recently from friends and acquaintances, on account of its ‘something for everyone’ approach […]
What a truly unexpected pleasure Patterns of Behaviour is, purely because it confounds my prejudices. You see, I struggle with […]
It’s 1997! Liam and Patsy are on the cover of Vanity Fair, Hayze are lighting Cuban cigars with £50 notes […]
Ambience, and lots of it. Enough ambience to take a very moody, deep-filled bath in, and maybe, not make it […]
Pub… Rock… Pub rock! Not to mention pub ska, pub oi, and, a dash of pub urchin-punk, and all from […]