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Feature: Drew Davies Lets Us Into His World During The Recording Of New Album ‘Holloway Nights’ And Provides A Track By Track
I wrote and recorded most of the record during lockdown; so I’m not entirely sure what state I was in. It gave me a sense of focus and I called on some great musical allies new and old to contribute and assist with recording. Whereabouts were you in terms of getting on, the label, the …
Feature: UK & Ireland live review team’s Top 5 gigs of 2023
It’s been one hell of a year for live music and our UK & Ireland review team have covered the length and breadth of the British Isles, to bring you the very best coverage, befitting one of the UK’s Top 10 music websites. Did we mention we’d recently come 9th in the Top 100 UK …
Feature: Backseat Downunder’s 50 Favourite Antipodean Albums and EPs of 2023
In many end of year ‘best’ albums of 2023, there has been a distinct absence of independent antipodean bands – an astounding omission given the depth of quality exhibited by Australian and New Zealand artists in 2023. For the past few years, to counterbalance this annual bias, I have put together a top fifty favourite …
Feature: The Alchemy Give Us A Track By Track Of Debut Album ‘Somewhere // Anywhere’
Background: ‘Somewhere // Anywhere’ marked a significant point in the band’s journey. At the time of creating this album, The Alchemy were in a transitional phase from losing a founding member of the band and gaining a whole new member changing it all up for us. We completely produced this record ourselves from the writing …
Feature: Pete Briley Gives Us The Low Down On His Debut Solo Album ‘Album No. 1’
Background At the start of 2023, in those bleak January days where you get about 14 minutes of daylight each day, I faced a dilemma. The Outlaw Orchestra had a really busy 2022 with a pretty gruelling festival schedule followed by intensive recording and promo for an EP and single releases over the autumn and …
Feature: Sam From Sam Roberts Band Gives Us a Run Down Of New Album ‘The Adventures of Ben Blank’
Some context surrounding the making of the record: Unfortunately, no juicy bits or dirt to speak of surrounding the making of Ben Blank – no slander, no in-fighting, no back-stabbing, no epiphanies, no love triangles, squares or circles or any other geometric shapes…perhaps our anaemic, wafer-thin social media presence has already told you that story. …
Feature: Of Concrete Gods Give Us A Track By Track Of New EP Out Today
The EP has been a bit of a labour of love over the last few years. Technically we started recording it at the beginning of 2020, but the process was halted by a couple of factors. Firstly Covid got in everyone’s way, not just ours. But in the middle of Covid our drummer Paul was …
Feature: Teiger Give Us A Track By Track Of Their Mesmerising Debut Album
The debut album ’Teiger’ is sort of a calling card for what’s to come. It came to life during a really interesting time – we were all going through various personal struggles during the songwriting process, the bulk of which happened during semi-lockdown. The timing of the band’s formation was impeccable for Phil as he’d …
Feature: Uncle Dave’s Biscuit Barrel Let Us Into Their World And Their New EP
Interview with Mike Trevor, vocalist So, after a 30 year break and then COVID getting in the way of the reboot, Uncle Dave’s Biscuit Barrel finally got into the studio in 2023 to record the long awaited debut, “Goes Apeshit in Your Laundry”! Well, for a band that originated in the early 90s, it was …