It’s telling that the first impression many people got of US troubadour John Vanderslice was through his recent tour with […]
It’s fair to say that Steve Mason has seen a lot. Having spent the best part of ten years with […]
The mere existence of the tracks ‘Ganjaholic’ and ‘On the Toilet Seat’ made it difficult to review the rest of […]
Danish chanteuses Marie Ingerslev has apparently been writing and performing original material since an early age until finally cementing her […]
I’m going to level with you. I have MTV. I have The Box. I even sometimes stray over to VH1 […]
Dublin Based songwriter Chris Singleton has clearly spent a lot of his young years absorbing the best bits of forty […]
First impressions of Jeremy Smoking Jacket are ‘what the f*ck is this?’ Then when you actually listen to this clan […]
Fair enough – I can hear the question before you even say it out loud; Why on earth are we […]
You will know Ainslie Henderson as the only genuine talent from the BBC’s Fame Academy. Alright, Sinead Quinn was good […]
The problem with this album is that it has so many effects, clicks and whirrs packed in that if you’re […]
You don’t get to support Snow Patrol without good reason, and there are plenty of good reasons why Ben Dlugokecki […]
There is a subtle but profound difference between a good song and a great song. For this writer, that line […]
Mia Riddle has now supplied us with three records and it’s clear that she’s developing into a real-life stunningly fantastic […]
Once, Freddie Stevenson would have been a companion of statesmen and princes. A poet, a minstrel with a voice of […]
‘A tribute to sonic astronauts everywhere’; the way Hadrian Mordecai tells it, the destruction of his synthesizers by fire caused […]
Swirling guitars eerily move up your front path temping you to peer through your letterbox only to find an angry […]
The album opens up with some static and church bells (always a nice touch in my book) before a juicy […]
Seeing Three Day Benda live (as I did at their recent album launch party at the Wedgewood Rooms) is always […]
Signed to Glasgow’s emerging Hijacked label, Adam Beattie’s debut album ‘Abu Bozy’ is a downnbeat mix of folk and blues […]
Tim Huzar and Ollie Daffarn, creative brains behind Philanthropy, can be proud of themselves as at times it sounds like […]
‘From Hibernation’ isn’t so titled just for fun. This is Germinal’s first release since an EP in 2001 and yet […]
‘Brutal Justice started as a joke, and then they got good…’ reads the mini-biography and in terms of ability this […]
Before listening to ‘Conversations Between Us’ it is important to consider who the album is aimed at. If a fifteen […]
As a member of Deep Purple Ian Gillan found himself plucked from seventies obscurity and thrown around the world in […]