Part I of Virgin Music’s official Glastonbury 2009 review including spills, shocks and Golden Silvers…
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July 2nd, 2009
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June 24th, 2009
Florence Welch, winner of the Brits Critics Choice, talks to Bob from virgin.com/music about her debut album Lungs, her festival plans for the summer and how she’d like to share teh stage with Beyonce and Beth Ditto from The Gossip…
June 23rd, 2009
Glastonbury is on the horizon folks and it’s looking gigantic. So, what sets shouldn’t you miss and which hidden (and less well-hidden) treasures are waiting? Here’s a list of 10 bands not to miss…
June 23rd, 2009
Florence & The Machine’s leading lady chatting frantically about her rise to prominence last year as one of the BBC’s Sounds of 2009 and the Brits Critics Choice of the year as well asdishing the gossip about what she got up to backstage at the NME tour earlier this year with White Lies and Glasvegas…
June 23rd, 2009
Two of this week’s efforts come from Someone (insert idiosyncratic, slightly posh female name here) and the Somethings. They aren’t too bad despite this though, Florence and the Machine and Marina and the Diamonds. Sonic Youth, now there’s a trusty moniker, are back too, along with fellow veterans of a very different scene, Basement Jaxx. Dance fans, alternative noise devotees and lady Brit quirkiness inquisitors, it’s all well worth a listen and a read…
June 19th, 2009
The Summer Soundtrack to London’s subterranean web of tunnels has arrived. Pigeon hole them at your peril…
June 19th, 2009
The boys are back in town this week in the Re-Reviews, with four solo artists giving their all for the possibly highly-coveted single of the week crown. Just Jack is sticking to his guns, Sam Isaac is revealing his cards, Jack Penate is reinventing himself and Jarvis is smugly proclaiming that he had done it all before the rest were out of, or even into, short trousers…
June 9th, 2009
And then there were six… Following the hoards of entries into this year’s Road to V campaign, mentors Just Jack and The Charlatans have whittled down the masses into a streamlined six. Up first, Birmingham’s 51 Breaks…
June 9th, 2009
‘I remember once I did a show in London, ages ago, when I was just starting out. At the time I was a student gigging in Liverpool and after a couple of months I thought “Oh, I’ll go and do a show in London”. I went down and the only people in the audience were my mum, the head of Sony and about four or five other people in the entire audience. Apparently, the guy from Sony thought it was hilarious; I barely had three songs.’ Things have changed considerably since then for Eugene McGuinness…
June 8th, 2009
Post War Years singer Si took time out from tour preparations to chat with little old us about the state of music, living in a hairdressers and, of course, Jack Bauer…
June 8th, 2009
Recently I was fortunate enough to catch up with one of the most genuine guys in the business, Tommy Sparks, just following the release of his second single, She’s Got Me Dancing, and his debut self-titled album. We talked about his new record, his plans for the summer, thoughts on the current music scene, just how important playing live is to him and loads more…
May 8th, 2009
Following on from our feature/review of The Panics last week which you can see Here, I managed to catch up with lead singer Jae Laffer before the band start a month long tour of the UK…
May 7th, 2009
Blurring the lines between the desolate plucks of Sufjan Stevens and the bleak musical meanderings through barren wildernesses of Midlake, if the grandiose of Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible was all a bit blazon so much so that it wouldn’t be all that far out of place on a car ad then this Canadian troupe could offer great resolution…
April 29th, 2009
Video for The Panics’ new single Don’t Fight It.
The Panics, are a five-piece band from Perth, Australia and are the latest foreign phenomenon trying to make a name for themselves in the UK. Cruel Guards,the bands new album, blends contagiously catchy, sun-soaked melodies and basic chilled out pop rock; it is definitely one for the summer…
April 29th, 2009
Well these guys are definitely something different. In the doom and gloom of the dreaded recession, these guys show that frowns don’t have to be the order of the day. The group; 20-year-olds Sophie, Lucie and Brooke almost made it to the final four groups stage in X Factor, some two and a half years ago but haven’t let their dismissal get in their way. Recently signed to Parlophone, there definitely seems to be a niche in the market for their surprisingly catchy, funny Spice Girls-esque disco/pop with an odd hint of Arctic Monkeys…
April 29th, 2009
It’s a Monday night and I’m barely over my Camden Crawl hangover so why on earth would I trudge myself out of my comfort zone and head up to the Bull and Gate venue in Kentish Town? Simple answer – there’s three bands playing tonight that I simply wont forgive myself for missing – three tiny, but important pieces, of the British independent music scene that can restore our faith…
April 27th, 2009
Today I was fortunate enough to have a chat with the 21-year-old soul/r&b singing sensation that is Laura Izibor. As her four-years-in-the-making debut album is released next month, the Irish soon-to-be-star had time to talk about where she’s going, where she’s been and everything in between before jetting back to the US to continue her tour with India Arie…
April 24th, 2009
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and his debut album have somehow lurked beneath the mainstream radar is the US, though whether that will also happen in the UK is another matter. The twenty-five year old singer/songwriter from Brooklyn has recorded a very personal and moving record and the finished product is really impressive; writing music as a means to deal with his heavy drug addiction, the songs show his morbid views on life and death…
April 24th, 2009
From Duffy to The Dø, there was just enough time for me to check out Brisbane boys Drawn From Bees who were Queensland’s winners of Garage 2 V. Leopard Lady is quite partial to their single ‘Long Tooth Setting Sun’, and the striking shock of hair on their lead singer…
April 23rd, 2009
As they prepare for their UK tour with Friendly Fires, Hockey talk to me about being back here, their upcoming album, thoughts on their success so far and hopes the future. They also mention that they’ve added Glastonbury to their already impressive list of festivals this summer.
