Music
See: Fanfarlo’s video for ‘A distance’
I needed cheering up today. I had to go to the hospital and have a camera inserted into my stomach via my throat. I won’t bore (read, gross you out) with the details, suffice to say that my gag reflex is about the most healthy part of my body, or so it seemed. I was …
NOT FORGOTTEN – TERRORVISION – SHAVING PEACHES
Terrorvision are one of those bands where it has been all to easy for the world at large to forget them. There’s no obvious reason for this to have happened. Terrorvison were a good-natured knock-about four piece band who rocked hard and gave their paying audience a good-value night out every time they played. True, …
Album Review : Andrew Bird- I Want to See Pulaski at Night
I’ve seen Andrew Bird live twice in my life. The first time was at the Chicago Opera House back in early 2009. The second time was at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis, IN in the fall of 2009. Both shows were stunning, Bird displaying a mastery of musical art like no other. But both shows …
Album Review: Youngblood Brass Band – Lux Volumi
Seems there’s a bit of a renaissance for brass bands at the moment. Not the colliery sort, instead these genre hopping, New Orleans ensembles, packed full of incredible players that, as well as being able to do things on their instruments that are almost beyond belief, they have this groove that is just infectious. Across …
NOT FORGOTTEN – SPARKS – HELLO YOUNG LOVERS
Once in a blue moon a new album is released by a well established act that stands out as the best of their career. It’s a rare thing for sure and it almost invariably only happens to acts that have not previously experienced the level of success that they had so richly deserved (the trappings …
See: New video from Half Loon for Swearword
I’ve got to thank Half Loon this morning. I was up early, very early for a Saturday because I’ve got to go up to Scotland. It was dark and cold, and I could barely drag myself out of my bed when the aloff went off. I was barely dressed when my lift arrived. So it’s …
NOT FORGOTTEN – GRUFF RHYS – CANDYLION
Looking back, Brit-pop was just a bit rubbish wasn’t it? Few of the bands it spewed forth had top-line careers which lasted more than a handful of years, great albums were thin on the ground and just about the only band of the movement that consistently released worthwhile music throughout their career was Supergrass. But …
Feature: 5 reasons to buy the forthcoming Gene album reissues
It all happened quite by accident for Gene, who, when they started were going about things quite happily as Sp!n, releasing a couple of single as an album on the Foundation label. But singer Lee Clark felt he was too old, and the following day the band had a serious accident and band member John …
Album Review: Midlake – Antiphon
So here’s the scoop in case you didn’t know or didn’t really care, Midlake was/is a band from Denton, Texas that was fronted by a guy named Tim Smith. They created strange worlds on their albums that were part renaissance fair and part Ray Bradbury novel. A renaissance fair that took place in another dimension …
NOT FORGOTTEN – QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – SONGS FOR THE DEAF
It was at one of those get togethers you attend with your other half, so there’s always a few folks you’ve not met before. My girlfriend was saying hello to her sisters and various old acquaintances she’d not seen for years and I must have stood out like a sore thumb, because this giant of …