Following on from his astounding ‘She Painted Pictures’ EP earlier this year, the UK’s most hotly tipped new songwriter raises […]
How often do you bump into an old flame only to be told that they thought you were dead? Me […]
If the sweet crunchy intro doesn’t suck you in, they’ll get you when the verse kicks in. With a lead […]
There is a place far away in the desolate landscape of music where MTV fear to tread and where labels […]
The Django Black Ensemble are something of an enigma. Having read an entire page commentary on how a band called […]
Describing themselves as a four-piece gutter rock/indie band, The Kiks are taking the sound of Southampton’s council estates to the […]
It would have definitely suited Red Star Rebels best to support Stephen Pearcy at the Garage on April 13. But […]
The phrase ‘rock with a funk edge’, quite frankly, strikes terror into the core of my palpitating heart. This is […]
The Delilahs will be a confusing prospect to the average bloke. This would have included me had I not accidentally […]
For a while now Three Day Benda have been plugging tonight’s album launch party to me, but they need not […]
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 […]