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Live Review: Tradfest Kilkenny – John Cleere’s Bar & Theatre, 16/18/20.03.2022

The annual Kilkenny Tradfest made a welcome returned to the delight of music goers and running from the 16th to the 20th featuring some of Irelands finest Irish Traditional music…

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Blu-Ray Review: To Sleep So As To Dream

Japan has a rich history of oral storytelling and theatre. It’s a culture with a strong emphasis on telling yarns, whether that’s in words or song. So, when silent cinema…

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Live: The Exploding Boys at The Triffid, Brisbane 19/03/2022: A cure for Brisbane

The Exploding Boys present The Cure: Head on the Door was an emotional journey back to the 80s with every song on the legendary 1985 album shared between 3 vocalists.…

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Blu-Ray Review: Boat People

People often wonder how authoritarian regimes manage to keep control, but as current events demonstrate it’s possible to brainwash the majority of a population if you control the narrative. The…

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Live Review: Nilüfer Yanya / Léa Sen – Electric Brixton, London 16.03.2022

By Cath Dupuy Nilüfer Yanya played her last show of her UK tour at the historic Electric Brixton, London to a packed, rapturous audience. Following on from her acclaimed first…

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Live Review: Slothrust / Calva Louise – Soda Bar, San Diego 17.03.2022

Boston Rockers Slothrust and Manchester’s Calva Louise performed a riotous gig at San Diego’s Soda Bar venue. Taylor Betancourt was there to capture the fun for Backseat Mafia. Find out…

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Album Review: Camp Cope Back with a Blissful new Album

Camp Cope are back with melodic, vulnerable album Running with the Hurricane

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EP: Grids/Units/Planes unveil the heady and mesmerising electronica of ‘Diverge And Coalesce’

The sounds of Brisbane project Grids/Units/Planes (GUP) are that of a cloudy, diffuse space that glitches and hums in a languorous rich texture: awe-inspiring and transfixing. I have always thought…

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Live Review: The Cribs / The Blinders – Chalk Venue, Brighton 12.03.2022

There was a real sense of vibrant energy and feverish atmosphere in the air in Brighton as TheCribs made their way to the stage with a real sense of missing…

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Exclusive: Scottish songwriter Peter Cat records the wonky pop of Melon Dating Simulator live in session for Backseat Mafia

Glaswegian purveyor of left field pop, Peter Cat recently releases his latest ep The Magus and featured two if his most actuely melodic and whimsical creations in singles Blue Raspberry…

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Live Review: Tradfest Kilkenny – John Cleere’s Bar & Theatre, 16/18/20.03.2022

Blu-Ray Review: To Sleep So As To Dream

Live: The Exploding Boys at The Triffid, Brisbane 19/03/2022: A cure for Brisbane

Blu-Ray Review: Boat People

Live Review: Nilüfer Yanya / Léa Sen – Electric Brixton, London 16.03.2022

Live Review: Slothrust / Calva Louise – Soda Bar, San Diego 17.03.2022

Album Review: Camp Cope Back with a Blissful new Album

EP: Grids/Units/Planes unveil the heady and mesmerising electronica of ‘Diverge And Coalesce’

Live Review: The Cribs / The Blinders – Chalk Venue, Brighton 12.03.2022

Exclusive: Scottish songwriter Peter Cat records the wonky pop of Melon Dating Simulator live in session for Backseat Mafia