The week off is virtually over (in the interests of drudgery: didn’t make a doctor’s appointment or fill in the passport renewal form; DID join the local library). DID start writing the…
The End Of The Year As We Know It
This year is just flying by: to the point where we’re already being clattered by the first of the End Of Year Lists (this one being pretty close to home). In case…
25 At 25 (my part in pop’s downfall)
Due to, what I’m assuming is a clerical error, made a junior member of contracts staff, who’s now left to become a CEO of Poundland, it appears I’m still on the BBC…
IDLES Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Joe Talbot, Idles singer, is, as we know, a man who looks like the bloke in your town who gets filthy drunk on a Saturday night and stands in the High Street…
MODERATE REBELS – Beyond Hidden Words
Marvellously and hauntingly, a song that does virtually nothing; an “unsung” as they describe it. ‘They’ being the mysterious “anti-music collective” Moderate Rebels, who among other things released a jolly good album…
I KNOW YOU GOT SCROLL
Festivals and touring have kept us apart for weeks, but here I am, still banging on about BODEGA. Even more so, with the delayed, but still imminent arrival of their debut album…
Gone West
Just back from SXSW, the massive showcase festival in Austin, Texas, which features something daft like 2000 bands in five days, in scores of venues across the city. Well, I say,…
Mono-Pat-Appear
I don’t mind a bit hyperbole, me (quelle surprise!). But bugger me the Bloggers Guide to SXSW 2018 is hard work. It’s like being at a party full car dealers, or…
CAR SEAT HEADREST Twin Fantasy (Face To Face)
In some ways, and for most bands, going backwards at a time when you’re already, definitely, moving forwards would make little sense. But there is a wilfulness to our Will.…
LONELY TOURIST Remuneration
The concept album is something that’s always made my heart sink, ever since my youth standing in Parrot Records in Colchester listening to other kids older brothers discussing records which appeared…