Music | Feature | Live Review
Ally Brown, Darren Carle & Chris Buckle: Savvy that their back catalogue might as well exist only in ‘best of’ form these days, Squeeze are quick off the mark with the hits. As th...
Music | Feature
Nick Mitchell: Thursday 28 May - Day One The setting is perfect for Magik Markers’ early evening set at the ATP stage, with the stepped seating providing a s...
Music | Preview
Nick Mitchell: Have you ever returned from a weekend of average live music and draconian licencing laws in an overpopulated, litter-strewn field and asked yourself, ...
Music | Feature | Label
Finbarr Bermingham: Rising from the ashes of Creation Records' demise in 2000, Wichita was the brainchild of Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Both had been at Alan McGee's side...
Music | Live Review
Ryan Drever: The last time Bloc Party played Glasgow they hit the cavernous SECC, so seeing the band and the sold-out crowd crammed into the refurbished Barfly is ...
Records | Album Review
Ally Brown: You've got to give credit to Bloc Party for making a real effort to progress their sound when Silent Alarms II and III would've sold them enough recor...
Ally Brown, Nick Mitchell & Colin Chapman: The Connect Festival – this year renamed Hydro Connect thanks to a sponsorship hook-up with Scottish Hydro Electric – has got everything g...
News | Lifestyle | Heads Up
Chris Buckle: In the wiki-torrent age of infinite information updates, it's always nice when a record (or two) appears like a curveball and manages to announce itse...
Ally Brown: 1. The Location - It's in the grounds of a castle on the banks of Loch Fyne. If you can't appreciate that you must be a blind man who lives in a castl...
Records | Single Review
Finbarr Bermingham: It’s a risky business reviewing new Bloc Party material, given the slow burner that Weekend In The City revealed itself to be, but Mercury, I am...
Nick Mitchell: A funny thing happened last year: people started using the word "boutique" to describe a music festival. Now, according to ye olde dictionary, a "bout...
Emily Foister: After screeching on to our television sets providing music for such teen cult viewing as the OC and Skins, Bloc Party have become a name no credible d...
Nick Mitchell: I Still Remember is the second single from A Weekend in the City and a rare break from that album's prevailing left-wing anger and post-OK Computer ur...
Ally Brown: From the first few seconds, Bloc Party's sophomore album is already setting itself up for a fall. "I am trying to be heroic in an age of modernity" is...
Jasper Hamill: Planned as an opportunity to showcase the new songs recorded for their second album, Bloc Party couldn't resist playing a few golden oldies, sending t...
