Music
Feature: Burridge Gives Us A Track By Track On Her New EP ‘Here Are Your Words’
Bea Burridge is set to release her second EP later this month after teasing us with a run of singles including the brilliant Cigarette Smoke. We caught up with Burridge who gave us a little background information on the forthcoming EP Background “Here Are Your Words” is my second EP set for release on 30th September. …
News: Seasick Steve Album out in September & Intimate Concert Dates.
ONLY ON VINYL LP // 23 SEPTEMBER 2022 UK OUTSTORES // SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER Seasick Steve releases his new album on 23 September in vinyl format only. ONLY ON VINYL will be available in standard black vinyl and limited edition blue vinyl. The album cover tells you exactly what to expect. No CD. No digital. …
Live Review: Reading Festival – Richfield Avenue, Reading 26.08.2022 – 28.08.2022
By Rebecca Bush I hopped on a Big Green Coach to cover this year’s Reading Festival, it was a whole 21 years since I last attended so I knew it was going to be a whole new experience! Reading has expanded over the years and is now attended by over 100,000 festival goers, everywhere you …
Premiere: Buñuel – For the Cops
“If you’ve never been approached by men with nightsticks who are intent on beating you into compliance while you’ve been naked in a jail cell, you have not lived.” – Eugene S Robinson, Buñuel.
Track: Wellington’s brilliant Hans Pucket release the wistful pop delight of ‘No Drama’, title track to forthcoming album, ahead of Australian tour dates.
The gently chugging pace and layered harmonies of ‘No Drama’ by Aotearoa/New Zealand band Hans Pucket positively shimmers with an incandescent glow. There are no doubt genetic connections to the melodic and literate Dunedin/Flying Nun sound and the fey delicacy of the C86 era and the Postcard Records music of bands like Orange Juice, but …
News: Psych royalty King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard announce phenomenal three album release schedule in October and unveil video for ‘Ice V’ ahead of extensive tour dates.
Never short of creativity or productivity, Australia’s King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have just announced the release of a phenomenal three albums for October on their own KGLW label – surely a reviewer’s greatest nightmare but a cornucopia of joy for fans. The first release will be ‘Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava’, …
Track: The Cult return with classic new single ‘A Cut Inside’ ahead of new album ‘Under The Midnight Sun’
The gloriously jangling thunderous sound of The Cult is back with their new single ‘A Cut Inside’ out today. It has all the hallmarks of their previous work: a magnificent mélange of delicate jingle jangle arpeggiated guitar and fuzzy, dirty power chords from the legendary Billy Duffy, supporting Ian Astbury’s dramatic urging vocals with mountainous …
Live Review: Independent’s 16th Birthday Party – Independent, Sunderland 03.09.2022
By Adam Littlemore Sunderland’s Independent venue celebrated its 16th birthday of bringing music to my home town of Sunderland. The night featured 7 bands performing on stage with a packed line up of the best talent around at the moment. The first act to perform and kick off the night was Lottie Willis, singing her …
Say Psych: Live Review: Manchester Psych Fest 03.09.2022
The UK’s leading psychedelic music and arts festival Manchester Psych Fest returned this year for its 9th and biggest event to date. After some problems with logistics last year, largely due to COVID-19 restrictions being in place, this years event had a lot of weight on its shoulders. The day starts for me with Winsford’s Déjà Vega. …
Live Review: Richard Hawley / Studio Electrophonique – 3Olympia, Dublin 06.09.2022
Richard Hawley brought his full band to Dublin’s 3Olympia for a sell out show with Studio Electrophonique stepping up as support. Opening the night was Sheffield’s James Leesley aka Studio Electrophonique who played a 30 minute set of 7 songs and sounding at times (to my ear) a little like David Baker. Starting his set …