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Say Psych: Live Review, Dead Sea Apes, Liverpool PsychFest, 26.09.15
Dead Sea Apes are a favourite band of mine who have released a series of ever developing albums on the Cardinal Fuzz label, the latest of which ‘Spectral Domain’ has apparently been flying out of the Cardinal’s lair. The opening track ‘Universal Interrogator’ has, in my view, already become a cornerstone of their live set, and …
Say Psych: Live, Pinkshinyultrablast, Liverpool PsychFest, 25/09/15
St Peterburg’s Pinkshinyultrablast have been causing quite a stir amongst shoegaze fans, and beyond, over the last year or so. Taking their name from an album by the relatively obscure American shoegaze project Astrobrite, the band instantly reveal how much they are embedded into the genre. This could be seen both positively and negatively, something …
Say Psych: Live, Radar Men From The Moon, Liverpool PsychFest, 26/09/15
Radar Men From The Moon (RMFTM) are named after a 1952 series of 12 shorts, directed by Fred C. Brannon who was responsible for a whole string of these low budget movies – and his rapacious output tells you something about the quality of the films themselves. The same could not be said for this …
Say Psych: Live, Dreamweapon, Liverpool PsychFest, 26.09.15
The Portuguese label ‘Lovers and Lollipops’ is one of those that seems to be able to put out a seemingly endless supply of interesting and unusual acts. My two favourite acts from the first day of 2014’s PsychFest, Black Bombaim and Jibóia, were both from that label. So when I saw that another ‘Lovers and …
Say Psych: Live, The Underground Youth, Liverpool PsychFest 25.09.15
Backseat Mafia favourites The Underground Youth made the short trip from Manchester to get things underway on the Camp stage at this year’s Liverpool PsychFest. The post-punk psychedelic band, who at times sound like a mid-era Depeche Mode (and I mean that in a good way), delivered a set that was heavy on drama, a dark and …
Live: State Champs, Knuckle Puck – Leeds Stylus, 22/09/15
Chicago based five piece Knuckle Puck made an appearance over here in the UK only a few months ago at Slam Dunk Festival, and most people who caught their set there are probably back again to enjoy the array of pop-punk on show. Bringing a slightly edgier sound to the table, their teen-angst releatable lyrics …
Live Review: PiL – Manchester, 19.09.2015 + Gallery
A rather nonchalant Mr Lydon, stridently bimbles his way to the front, and a minor eruption occurs in front of him. Amongst the welcoming cheers and raised arms, plastic pint pots are launched skyward and a rain of beer falls on our heads. Seems quite befitting the occasion, and apart from one punter who cops …
Gallery: Bring Me The Horizon Album Signing At HMV Sheffield 13.09.15
That’s The Spirit, the fifth studio album from Bring Me The Horizon finally dropped on Friday (11th Sept). The long-awaited album is currently sitting at the top of the UK album charts and come Sunday could possibly be their highest charting album worldwide to date. For a chance to interact with their fans and to …
Live: Tramlines 2015 – 26.7.15 – Crystal Bar/Frog and Parrot – Promenade Cinema / Clubs / Delamere / The Mexanines galleries
We took in a number of bands from the fringe of Sheffield’s Tramlines Festival this year. Over at the Frog and Parrot was Sheffield Synthpop duo Promenade Cinema, aka Emma Barson and Dorian Cramm, who deliver cinematic electronic pop music, as evidenced by their debut single A Chemical Haunting, which you can pick up from …
Live Review: Tramlines 2015, Desperate Journalist – Crystal, 26.7.15 plus Gallery
You’ll know if you read Backseat Mafia regularly, that Desperate Journalist are one of our favourite bands right now. On the back of their debut album, which we awarded 9.9/10 (see here) we take any opportunity to see their raw and incendiary live set, so when we saw they were on at Crystal, Sheffield as part …