Not Forgotten: The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
September 2002. It is a time of personal misery and darkness. I’d sold the house I’d worked so hard to afford and had struggled to find a new place, so…
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The Best Sheffield Artists & Bands of 2016
Whilst Backseat Mafia now boasts writers and readers from all over the world, it all started in the northern city of Sheffield. We’re a proud lot here, and are particularly…
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Track: Orchid Collective – Courage and talk Exclusively to Backseat Mafia
Orchid Collective return with their latest release entitled ‘Courage’, a 4 track EP briming with their unique sound of rousing alternative folk-influenced rock. Orchid Collective are: David O Shea (lead vocals, guitar),…
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Track: Tomorrows – ‘Another Life’
Tomorrows are a four-piece indie rock band from Dublin who take their influences from 60’s and 70’s pop, rock, prog, and folk, and combine them with a modern day indie rock sound to…
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Meet: Bayonet interview
I sit down to interview Bayonet ahead of their sold out headline gig at Sheffield’s The Leadmill and spend an honest and often hilarious hour and a half chatting with…
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Live Review: Honeyblood – Saint Luke’s Glasgow 8.12.2016 Plus Gallery
After releasing a seemingly impossibly perfect second album, Honeyblood complete 2016 with a triumphant homecoming show. The Honeyblood partnership of Stina Tweeddale and Cat Myers take to the stage to…
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Album Review: The Emerald Down – Scream The Sound
The Emerald Down, a band who Ian Watson (Rolling Stone/NME/BBC 6 Music) ranked among “the more innovative fringes of rock and electronica”, have re-released what has been deemed a lost classic on…
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Not Forgotten: Ed Harcourt – Here Be Monsters
At the time of its 2001 release, Ed Harcourt’s Here Be Monsters was released to a modest amount of fanfare and expectation of great things to come, however for some…
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Live Review: Bayonet, The Leadmill, Sheffield, 02/12/16
Bayonet have good cause to be in a celebratory mood tonight as they take to the stage at the Leadmill in Sheffield. Having bounced around the Sheffield scene playing many…
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Not Forgotten: World Party – Goodbye Jumbo
A lot more people should really know who Karl Wallinger is. He left The Waterboys at exactly the right time and set up his own musical project under the catchy…
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