Film | GFF 2010 | Review
Becky Bartlett: The sixth of fourteen, The Good Son is part of a series of alternative music documentaries by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Employed to crea...
Music | Feature | Live Review
Chris Buckle, Thomas Meek, Ally Brown & Darren Carle: T in the Park 2009 was largely pre-billed as "the year T went pop", as if it was totally something else before. Bands that write their own songs and p...
Music | Feature
Gillian Watson, Ally Brown, Chris Buckle, Darren Carle & Johnny Langlands: THE PHANTOM BAND (T Break Stage, Friday) What’s in a name? Plenty, if The Phantom Band are anything to go by. The hauntingly original Glasweg...
Music | Live Review
Dave Kerr: “You’ve got the wrong band, mate.” We’re only two songs in when Nick Cave politely draws a line in the sand and waves away a p...
Beth Malone: I haven’t eaten all day. I’m nauseous and could - at any moment - pee myself. I’m waiting to speak with two of Nick Cave’s Bad...
Dave Kerr: Last year the Bad Seeds’ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos took a sonic detour away from the piano-driven atmospherics tha...
Records | Feature | Round Up
Nick Mitchell: Punk is all the rage - on the evidence of the first two singles this month anyway. The King Blues are a London act who project a renagade, guerilla-gi...
Beth Malone: Tonight, there are moments of panic. Body to body, sweat on sweat. Even the skinniest of asses can’t squeeze their way through the sold-out Acad...
Records | Album Review
Billy Hamilton: Loin-burning biblical narratives? Check. Riotous blues sludge? Check. Bandito-esque moustachios? Check. Yes, it's safe to say those ageing disciples o...
Records | Single Review
Tobias Kahn: Nick Cave is back with the Bad Seeds and the title track from their latest LP is a gritty rocker. The number finds its groove the second it begins, as...
Billy Hamilton: In Nick Cave's drive to musical emancipation, The Bad Seeds provide direction without ever taking hold of the wheel. Imperative to the composition of ...
