New Music: Northern Portrait – Pretty Decent Swimmers EP
It started with The Smiths. When I first heard them, I began to doubt whether I would ever love a band any more than that. After that, I started to…
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Jim F
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Founder of Backseat Mafia, obsesser of music, hoarder of records, player of notes, defender of the unheard, ignorer of genre, writer of words, hater of preconceptions.
New Music: Everything Everything – James Rutledge 'Arc' Album Remix
They told us we didn’t have many lectures on my music degree because we needed time to immerse ourselves in music, and that we needed three hours practise time per…
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Track: Everything Everything – James Rutledge ‘Arc’ Album Remix
They told us we didn’t have many lectures on my music degree because we needed time to immerse ourselves in music, and that we needed three hours practise time per…
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New Music: Half Hour Hotel – Run from Sirens
Our family hails from a part of the UK that’s almost the furthest away from any coastline you can possibly get. There is a canal but I’m not sure you’d ever…
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Album Review: Johnny Marr – The Messenger
Jim F finds that despite spending years in the background, there’s always been a frontman in Johnny Marr that’s been fighting to get out. Rather like the end of one…
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Track: Beacon – Bring You Back, plus album news
I hate that word you hear people use sometimes ‘chill-ax’. What need is there, ever, to put two words together that essentially mean the same thing. I’m quite prepared to…
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Album Review: Screaming Maldini – Screaming Maldini
Sheffield six-piece Screaming Maldini release album, an incredibly catchy prog-pop collection of songs, cue Jim F fauning almost uncontrollably I’ve been waiting for this. If there were ever a band…
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Meet: Capsize interview
Always searching for the new and the exciting, Jim F interviews exciting Californian Melodic Hardcore band Capsize about, well, being new and exciting.. I’ve always liked new music. John Peel…
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Album Review: Martin Rossiter – The Defenestration of St Martin
The early 90’s were a personal feast of ‘Rock n Roll’ music in my life. Things were good… very good indeed. I still had hair. The children were the right…
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News: Y-Prog Festival, 15th – 17th March, Corporation: Sheffield, plus an interview with organiser Kris Hudson-Lee
When I was younger, in those halcyon days shortly after punk, there was a certain word that stuck fear into our very beings, that was only whispered in hushed huddles…
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