When it comes to setting the mood for a night of romantic nudge-nudge wink-winking and general boudoir canoodling, music can play a vital role. Get it right and you’ll be singing in perfect harmony. Get it wrong and you’re...
Category - Music
1. Stevie Wonder Hyde Park, London 10th July 2. Billy Cobham Trio with Donald Harrison and Ron Carter Blue Note, NYC 28th April 3. The Comet is Coming Old Malthouse, Bristol 14th October 4. Ian William Craig Cafe Kino 10th...
1. Frank Ocean – Blonde 2. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial 3. Trust Fund – We have always lived in The Harolds <a href=” have always lived in The Harolds by Trust Fund</a> 4...
Stanley Brinks and Freschard – Bristol Live Review At The Well, Stokes Croft, Bristol 11th April 2016 Anyone walking past and looking in through the window of At the Well on Stokes Croft tonight would think: “Well that...
1. George Clinton – Parliament / Funkadelic O2 Academy, Bristol 17th April 2. Richard Dawson Polish Club, Bristol 14th May 3. Doldrums Louisiana, Bristol 22nd May 4. Destroyer The Lantern...
1. Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again Inhabiting a hazy other-world, this shape-shifting retro folk has the ability to transport you in the same way that Astral Weeks did decades earlier. 2. Port St. Willow...
I have compiled a selection of some of my favourite R & B, jump up, mambo, jive, and blues tracks of all time. They all happen to have been recorded by women and were all released in a glorious ten year period between 1953...
I am taking out the rubbish. It is not a task I enjoy. There are several reasons for this. I do not like that moment when you jostle the contents of the bin bag so you can tie it and in so doing force a guff of rotten air up into...
In 2014, I got to see bands that I thought I would never ever see live – McLusky, Neutral Milk Hotel, Violent Femmes, Neil Young as well as various other acts that I have sang along to in various bedrooms in various houses...
The following are a selection of the EPs, mini-albums and mixes that impressed in 2014. L.D.C.N – Summer Rain “L.D.C.N’s electronic soundscapes are subtly woven from found sounds and samples. Louie is a cyber...