Album Review: Roo Panes – Little Giant
Debut album from West Country folkie that can’t quite break its slow, soft shackles to reach the heights. Roo Panes has been building up to this moment for a…
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Nick Pett
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Just Lions – Great. OK
I’m worried about Chandler, and not for the first time. Before it was The Bing Man: increasingly strung out, sweaty, scrawny and unable to convince us that there was any…
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Muttley – Demo (Part 4 of Backseat Mafia On Tour: York)
Gosh, York seems such a long time ago. I picked up a clutch of music in May last year (!) while sojourning in that delightful locale and one of the pieces…
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Live: The Provincial Archive at The Islington
The final stop on The Prov’s European tour finds them just off Upper Street in London on a wet and windy May evening. They’re fresh from time on the continent…
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New Music: Young Braves – Black Country (free download)
Cruising out of the titular ‘Black Country’, Shropshire’s teenage indie rockers are back with a new single. This is a song of youthful desire to escape limitations and oppressions,…
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Meet: An interview with Saint Etienne
“Sorry if i kept you waiting, I was mucking around with a Vocoder and lost track of time” To be honest, my conversation with Pete Wiggs doesn’t get any less…
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Live: Broken Twin at St John on Bethnal Green
Broken Twin’s music demands this church setting; somewhere deeply sonorous and solemn, redolent with the deliciously evocative smell of candle wax. On this windswept Wednesday evening, Majke Voss Romme and band are…
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Live: The Fruitful Earth – “Rising Sun” album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters
Dalston Kingsland, half-eight on a dreary Thursday night, the capital greasily covered with filthy spring rain. This is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the record we’re…
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Howie B: Interview
Text message: “Can we wait until half time ? I’ll call u in 20 mins”. It’s a finely balanced 0-0 at the Vicente Calderón stadium, so you can understand Howie B…
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Tom Brosseau: Profile
Outside it’s a beautifully bright Sunday lunchtime, but chill in the shade. Indoors, in the snug of Paper and Cup, it’s cosy warm. Tom Brosseau, his friend Eva, his manager…
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