Track: Jarell Perry – Getaway
At school, I always wanted to be part of a gang. For some reason, the school I went to was big on re-enactments. Not the English Civil War kind you see on banners as you drive through the countryside, but a sort of Quadraphenia Mods v Rockers sort of world. And when I say re-enactments, I …
Track: Dick Diver – Water Damage
I think I was about 13 or 14 when I discovered the ‘carry on’ films. I remember, I think maybe my mother was working late, and I happened upon it. I think in those simple days of four channels you could still find a good ‘carry on’ most nights, if you looked hard enough (altogether …
EP: Young Peculiar – Young Peculiar EP
We’re not anything here at Backseat Mafia, if not adventurous. It’s not quite three months since we started and already we’ve done things about Jazz, Funk, Indie, Post-Rock Classical and Metal music. I have come to the conclusion that if you search hard enough you’ll find good in everything eventually. And we’re all different, right? …
News: Jaguar Skills and his Amazing Friends Tour
I used to do my homework to John Peel. There, I said it. I know it’s sort of expected for everyone involved in music just about to say that. But its true. I used to make tapes of the songs on his shows I liked, and then stop the tape if I didn’t like the …
News: Steel Trees Tour Starts Tomorrow!
The Greek Islands in the brochures, always seem to look so beautiful and tranquil. Behind that though and everyone realises that they can be party Islands as well. When I had just started work (i.e. was desperately broke) I spent an entire day with my then housemate searching for deals on Teletext holidays (those were the …
New Music: Firesuite – Red World EP
When I was fairly young, about 18 I think it was (actually I don’t think, I know because I can remember it so well) my college mate and I went over to Manchester one cold December night. It was, at that time, the biggest gig I think I’d ever been to. Manchester G-Mex had sold …
EP: Wet Nuns – Broken Teeth
We’ve written about the Wet Nuns before (specifically here) but they’re back with a new EP ‘Broken Teeth’. The EP was recorded with Ross Orton (Yes, he of Arctic Monkeys, The Fall, MIA and The Kills fame) at McCall Studios earlier this year. The release is planned for February 18th, just ahead of the band hitting …
Meet: The Payroll Union Interview
I think it was when I first heard Nic Jones’ Penguin Eggs album that I realised how good Folk music could be. Before that point I’d always imagined it being a desolate wasteland of Morris Dancers, knitted jumpers, roll-ups and unkempt facial hair. As someone who spent his formative years trying to look like I …
News: Kodaline Announce UK Tour Dates
So let’s get this straight. Acting as a father figure to his dead brothers children, who (it turned out) may or may not have been illegitimate, and were both discredited and then disappeared. He assumes control, much to the anger of his brothers friends, who in turn attack him, at first failing (and suffering a horrible …
Track: The Indieannas – Flying High
I’ve been to Buxton quite a few times. It’s one of those places that, once you’re there, is beautiful with loads of history. Its Built on the River Wye, and overlooked by Axe Edge Moor, but it’s probably most famous as a spa town due to its geothermal spring, which apparently rises at a constant …