One final Glastonbury sunset awaits as Blur, Brand New and Bat for Lashes blow on the fading embers of yet another vintage year…
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July 2nd, 2009
Bon Iver watering Glastonbury’s Saturday mud bath…
July 2nd, 2009
Glastonbury’s Friday filled with frolics from Fleet Foxes, Lady Gaga, Jack White and White Lies…
July 2nd, 2009
Part I of Virgin Music’s official Glastonbury 2009 review including spills, shocks and Golden Silvers…
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 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 17th, 2009
Were artists these days entitled to sue for the theft of a general aura, Crystal Castles would be dining out on Kap Bambino for eternity. Fortunately for the Francophonic electroclash duo, the lawyers and bailifs won’t be arriving any time soon…
June 16th, 2009
A haze of frenzied internet scrambles and disjointed voyages into the unknown have shrouded Blur’s reunion plans of the summer thus far and the first of several secret London shows proved to be no exception. Tonight, the turn of East London’s flagship Rough Trade store…
June 12th, 2009
What do you get if you put outspoken punk frontwoman Beth Ditto of Gossip, girl-kissing, tabloid-baiting singer Katy Perry, talented pretender Pixie Lott and French electro supremo Yuksek in a Jacuzzi, get loads of journalists and bloggers to argue about it and squish it all up onto a page? A crowded, crinkled, sodden version of this week’s Re-Reviews, that’s what. Plus a pretty disturbing image, believe you me…
June 12th, 2009
Picnics, Pimms, plasters and paralytic climes swarm about the initiation of the British festival season like mosquitoes over Latitude’s lake. Wychwood is upon us…
June 12th, 2009
There’s a couple having sex three yards to the left, a man passed out three yards to the right – even in Barcelona, a festival is a festival. Thankfully, Primavera Sound Festival managed to be as exciting, smooth and impressive as its fair city’s fabulous football club…
June 12th, 2009
A fine summers day this was not, but a fine spectacle of a mini music festival it was. The Gallagher brothers on superlative form, despite the odd mud slide…
June 12th, 2009
Two nights ago, Billy Talent restored 85,000 Germans’ faith in punk-rock, headlining Rock AM Ring alongside Limp Bizkit. Tonight they play to somewhere closer to 85 and the streets have been lined with black hoodies and cheap spirits since three. Something special lurks below…
June 9th, 2009
In this week’s Re-Reviews, Kasabian and Enter Shikari return whilst two rather contrasting solo artists battle it out for recognition…
June 8th, 2009
With much made at the start of 2009 of Victoria Hesketh’s pending propulsion into the realms of megastardom, and with the Lancashire lass’s hotly tipped debut album Hands finally upon us, there was plenty of anticipation surrounding this showcase London gig…
June 8th, 2009
As the dying sunlight bleeds through Union Chapel’s wondrous stained glass windows, the brightest light in Islington tonight beams out from pearly whites amongst a wash of troubadour stubble beneath a tweed flat cap…
June 8th, 2009
Chris Reynolds gives Mastodon’s latest metal feast a grilling…
June 8th, 2009
Sprawling across Bristol city centre like ants at a picnic, Dot to Dot Festival thrives in the moment. Leaving no stone left unturned, the afternoon was spent chasing glimpses of sonic hope up and down Park Street…
June 8th, 2009
Madame Welch preaches to Salford’s masses yet Eoghan McKeever is yet to be converted…
June 8th, 2009
On another highly anticipated tour of the UK, lo-fi garage rockers Black Lips returned to show us their new album 200 Million Thousand, in addition to some old favourites. The biggest surprise of the night is that it wasn’t a sell-out show at the Electric Ballroom, not that it mattered much…
