The Komedia, Brighton 20/05/10 A volcanic ash cloud may have prevented anti-folk supergroup, The Bundles, from coming together in Brighton tonight, but it failed to perturb the exuberant Jeffrey Lewis. In honour of his stranded...
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Wolf Parade Live Review The Concorde 2, Brighton 17/05/2010 Montreal bands are cool; it’s a given. Yet Wolf Parade may have damaged their credentials after spending the afternoon on Brighton beach playing a game called ‘rock...
Record shops are never busy; they are the domain of that rare oxymoronic creature, the cool-nerd. Each time the door opens in a record shop, it is an event; music escapes out into the world, a person gets sucked inside. On the...
Marlborough Theatre, Brighton Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre is tonight beautifully bedecked with flowers and fairy lights; a fitting locale for Sshh! Promotions and Simple Folk’s line-up of understated, underappreciated...
I came across Yuck just last week and have found myself listening to the same four songs repeatedly ever since. Yuck are a four-piece based in North London who make delicately fuzzed-up shoegaze pop. For such a new band, they...
Best of the Year Blog 2009 Well, it’s 2010. How about it. Arctic winds, bad skin, black ice, hangovers, snow, chapped lips, a pot belly that shows no signs of diminishing, more snow, and it’s only day ten. Now add to that an...
Tommy Emmanuel – Colston Hall, Bristol Saturday December 5th Tommy Emmanuel is a remarkable guitarist, a virtuoso in fact, but more importantly he is a performer. The Australian has been playing guitar since the age of...
Staff Benda Bilili Gig Preview The Fiddlers, Bristol Wednesday 18th November Staff Benda Bilili, whose name translates to ‘look beyond appearances’, are a group of paraplegic musicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Handsome Furs, The Cooler, Friday 30th October Bounding onto the Cooler’s stage complete with its cardboard skeletons, the husband and wife duo of Handsome Furs appear genuinely pleased to be here. It may have something to do...
GaBLé Live at the Cube Microplex, Saturday 17th October GaBlé are hilarious. Their performance tonight establishes them as bona fide comedy geniuses. Like artist David Shrigley, the French trio combine naivety with the macabre...