Indie
Track: Thrillhouse kick starts the year with the effervescent ‘Janus’.
I feel that my musical year doesn’t really start until I’ve received Thrillhouse latest offering. And their opening salvo for the year is the appropriately named single ‘Janus’, the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces and is where the name …
Live Review: Smoke Fairies – Lafayette, King’s Cross 15.02.2022
“So great leaving the house, isn’t it?” declares Katherine Blamire, clearly excited that her and fellow Smoke Fairies friend Jessica Davies are finally back touring. Being back on the road and spending time away from home isn’t without its dangers though. Blamire reveals how she recently reacquainted herself with her cat – “I came back …
Tracks: Opus Kink Announce Debut EP & Share Lead Single ‘I Love You, Baby’
Brightons own Opus Kink have shared their new single ‘I Love You, Baby’, taken from the collective’s debut EP arriving this summer via Nice Swan Records. Speaking about the single release, the band explained: “‘I Love You, Baby’ is a sweet, tender love song charting one careless heart’s adventure through purgatory. Signed with a sticky kiss from Opus Kink to you”. …
Live Review and Gallery: No-one’s complaining – Moaning Lisa return to Sydney
No complaints-Moaning Lisa deliver blistering set at The Lansdowne.
Tracks: Mountain Party – Hell, I Don’t Know
Formed in the heart of Georgia, Mountain Party makes music inspired by the working class and the everyday tragedy and celebration of American life. ‘Hell, I Don’t Know’ is the band’s first new release in nearly two years. Gritty vocals deliver attention grabbing lyrics as a cascade of music from the rolling drums and gentle picked guitar. The …
Track: Sydney’s Jet City Sports Club unveil a spirited, jangling slice of heavenly melancholic pop in track ‘She Don’t Need No One’ and announce launch date.
With a genetic make up that has hints of The Sundays and The Cranberries as well as an antipodean bloodline stretching back to bands like Even As We Speak, The Killjoys and The Clouds, Sydney band Jet City Sports Club have released the sparkling ‘She Don’t Need One’. It’s jingle jangle guitars aplenty with with …
Live Review: Dry Cleaning – The Button Factory, Dublin 15.02.2022
By Michael Ryan Dry Cleaning continued their spring tour and sold out The Button Factory venue in the heart of Dublin City promoting their highly acclaimed debut album “New Long Leg” Lead singer Florence Shaw was far from looking like an “Unsmart Lady” as she arrived on stage wearing what looked like a red silky …
Album Review: Sea Power crest the waves with the beautiful and shimmering ‘Everything Was Forever’, and announce launch shows.
The band whose name was formerly appended by the word ‘British’ has made a rather triumphant return in their new guise as Sea Power. On the one hand, the things that have made the band so special – their distinctive quirkiness and eccentricity steeped in a certain pastoral/rural bliss and ability to combine intelligent, witty …
News: The enigmatic prince of funk Donny Benét announces new EP, global tour dates and new instrumental single ‘Le Piano’
Sydney-based composer Donny Benét has perfected a brand of uber cool funk – driven by his proficient bass playing – that has caught the world’s attention, with past albums stretching back to his 2011 debut ‘Don’t Hold Back’. COVID restrictions prevented Benét touring his last album ‘Mr Experience’ in 2020 but to salve the pain, …
Live Review: Echo and The Bunnymen – 3Olympia, Dublin 09.02.2022, plus gallery
Last night saw Echo and the Bunnymen arrive to Dublin’s 3Olympia for their show Celebrating 40 years of magical songs. The stage backlit and set in a blanket of thick smoke, and the band take to the stage, opening the night with Going Up / Show of Strength. Ian asks at this point what time …