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...
I went to Teignmouth in Devon on holiday. I visited the pier and here is what I saw.
I’m working for a restaurant magazine this week. Here is an account of what I ate for lunch: Day 1 There is no canteen here. The only place that serves food in walking distance is a gargantuan leisure centre, home to a...
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...
The journey lasts twenty-nine and a half steps. I wake. I don’t know if it is night or day. My tongue feels out ulcers and layers of staleness in my parched papyrus mouth. It tastes of, or maybe just is, rotting flesh. I drag...
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...