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Featuring: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Queens of the Stone Age, Jack White, Gorillaz, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, The Vaccines, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Courteeners, The Script, The Kooks Flight Facilities, David Byrne We say we go to festivals for the acts. (‘The line-up looks sick, honestly mate. Noel’s there. Got any papers?’) […]
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The 2018 Mercury Prize nominations overrepresent the stars, overlook the talented and oversee a somewhat tame and formulaic list of nominees. It’s time to wave goodbye to the mainstream music awards and welcome back the annual best-of-British bash. The winner of the prestigious Mercury Prize 2018 is to be announced in just a matter of […]
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I couldn’t tell you that I was turned-on by the idea of Pale Waves when I first heard them on their All The Things I Never Said EP in the winter. What can I say? Call me a fool. I just didn’t hear a way in. But then I thumbed through their cover feature in […]
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Featuring: Sock, Stella Donnelly, Hayley Heynderikx, Kevin Morby, Sacred Paws, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Grizzly Bear Warning: Sexual assault, colourful language and content I’ll confess, readers, that I need a little cry after watching Sock. Not that they’re instrumental Mac Demarco jauntiness, which our ultra-hip Yorkshire camping neighbours had switched us on to, is particularly […]
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Starring: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Mount Kimbie, HMLTD, Boy Azooga, Bo Ningen, Baxter Dury, Goat Girl, Teleman, John Grant, Teenage Fanclub, Fleet Foxes, 9Bach Warning: Contains colourful language and content Friday Night has one more challenge for us: Aussie rock-warlocks King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. The game: Survival. I’ve dropped half a […]
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The Exorcism. Rebuilding After the War. Starring: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Public Service Broadcasting, Park Motive, The Lovely Eggs, Amber Arcades, Omni, Snail Mail, Black Midi [pictured] Warning: Contains colourful language and content There are many things that I am hungry for. A decent meal. A good night’s sleep. An escape from this sweaty fag-butt […]
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In one word? Sweaty. Time for a swim. If there’s any place to go to brook the roast of that insidious beast popularly known as ‘ The Heatwave’, then it’s the breezy shores of Margate, Kent. Yelling at me neck-deep in water and in-between breast strokes is Alex Rice, singer of ‘up-and-coming’ indie band Sports Team. Having been […]
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We can skip the back story, as we all know who Kanye West is by now. Whether you have sung along to ‘Gold Digger’ at a bop, watched the debate about him at the Union last year or sported the finest shutter shades Claire’s Accessories had to offer in 2007 (guilty) – Kanye West is […]
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Sitting in the middle of a field in London, pint in hand, listening to some of the most exciting bands of our time as the sun set, I felt like I had potentially taken escaping the ‘Oxford bubble’ a little too far. Though it was winding to the end of a long sixth week, the […]
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Richard Melville Hall is a man of modest means. Even when he gained a huge amount of critical acclaim for Play, his fifth studio album, the New Yorker remained grounded. In a personally memorable episode of the MTV series ‘Cribs’ around 15 years ago, his humble personality and modest abode provided a remarkably refreshing view […]
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For those unfamiliar with the concept, concert films are film screenings with live orchestral accompaniment. Though the popularity of concert film has rocketed in recent years, they are by no means a recent development. The earliest known concert film was Concert Magic which premiered at the Charlie Chaplin Studios in 1947. Featuring the renowned violinist […]
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I cannot be the only person who greets yet another music plagiarism case with a sigh of frustration. This time it is the turn of James Arthur to be sued by The Script over his single ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’. For anyone who listens to the openings of these songs the similarities in […]
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The first moments of Courtney Barnett’s latest album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, sound reminiscent of those of ‘Kim’s Caravan’ from her 2015 debut, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. However, unlike the earlier track, which sees the brooding opening guitars become a howling penultimate song, ‘Hopefulessness’ slowly assembles itself […]
Continue ReadingBoasting seven Brit awards, three Grammy nominations and two Glasto headline slots, Arctic Monkeys have accumulated a pretty impressive CV over the years. Following the huge success of ‘AM’ (2013), their latest release ‘Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino’ has been hotly awaited. If poncey lyrics and shoddy attempts at hazy pop fusions floats your indie-rockin’ […]
Continue ReadingDonald Glover, (aka Childish Gambino) has achieved astonishing success both as an actor and musician. This year alone he has won two Emmys, a Grammy and a feature role in Star Wars spin-off ‘Solo’. But it is his latest musical release, ‘This Is America’, which has really got people talking. Gambino uses his platform […]
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After the success of last year’s very enjoyable run of ‘Merrily We Roll Along’, I arrived at this year’s Eglesfield Music Society production of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Company’ expecting great things – and I was not disappointed. In the sparse but pretty setting of the Nun’s Garden at The Queen’s College, a sense of excitement was […]
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Despite my mum singing the hits of ABBA to me from an early age I am still not a fan (actually the singing might have something to do with this, sorry mum). Yet I couldn’t help be excited at Abba’s latest announcement. This wasn’t because they are reuniting, or even because they are releasing two […]
Continue ReadingWalking into the O2 Academy, it was hard to pinpoint an age demographic for the audience, but there was a uniting element. It has become a cliché to describe the DMAs as a brit pop band, but the crowd of bucket hats and slouched hoodies has made the hark back to the 90s almost unavoidable. […]
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2018 has already brought us some fine soundtracks from Annihilation and Black Panther to You Were Never Really Here, but do these soundtracks deserve to rank amongst the greatest of all time? Of course, music, like film, is a subjective business, but from a personal point of view, here are ten soundtracks that can be […]
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