For a while now Three Day Benda have been plugging tonight’s album launch party to me, but they need not […]
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Due to my recent habit of being fashionably late for gigs, I unfortunately missed the usual frenzied fracas of queuing […]
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 […]
Now I’m a sucker for free stuff however, please don’t take that to mean that by sending in your spare […]
Yes, I am still alive, lets just say its been an interesting few months and, short of being turned into […]
We’ve got a live one here. Phantomatics pack more variety and imagination into three songs than you’d find in many […]
The first guitar I hear today belongs to Director, a timid looking bunch of lads from Dublin. As soon as […]
Before listening to ‘Conversations Between Us’ it is important to consider who the album is aimed at. If a fifteen […]
My, hasn’t music progressed these past few years? No longer are the charts filled with endless club anthem related drivel […]
There were few bands as consistent and heroic as Shed Seven. Surviving shoe-gaze, britpop and finally bowing out with a […]
As a member of Deep Purple Ian Gillan found himself plucked from seventies obscurity and thrown around the world in […]
One dreary night in St Mary’s, Southampton, a little known music journalist bared witness to a little known local band […]
Having sat on the cold stone steps of Southampton Guildhall for some 15 minutes while waiting for my mate to […]
I must confess I felt a mild case of deja-vu when this CD dropped through our letterbox. The reason being […]
2005’s ‘The Great Destroyer’ was a pivotal album for Low. It was a cue for the band to perform with […]
It’s not entirely clear from the biographies how it happened, but Mia Riddle and James Black, two singer/songwriters for opposite […]
These are boozing, schmoozing, carousing regular guys and we know that because they tell us so. Their website and MySpace […]
Fuzzy bass, cute guitar licks and a vocal that isn’t afraid of it’s French heritage, ‘I Want You Babe’ is […]
Nutronstars are nuts; and they are fantastic for it. The CD cover looks like it was made in arts-ed class […]
It really must be something in the water, for time and memorial the north of England has consistently produced some […]
Pitching up at the request of Kyoto I rush into The Joiners hoping and praying that I haven’t missed their […]
The Motorpool always threaten to take over the CD player. Previously with the striking ‘Winter Suntan’ and the depth of […]
Schizo Fun Addict are a band on the edge. In fact, they spend half of their time on either side […]