Records :: Single Review 03 Sep 2008
Chris Buckle: Bang On seems an odd single to release from the excellent Mountain Battles: partly because it’s a sparse two minutes of muffled drums, skeletal guitar and not a lot to offer radio, and partly because it was all over the internet for free in March...
Music :: Preview 19 Aug 2008
RJ Thomson: Girls always look super hot at festivals: the sun's out, the sounds are soothing, you've provoked your loins with some substance or other, and a general whiff of 'life is beautiful' is on the air. So, when I found out that this year's Bestival fancy dr...
Music :: Travel :: Preview 14 Aug 2008
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 castle. You're not though, are you? 2. The People - There's no easy way of putting this: everyone at Hydro...
Music :: Preview 08 Jul 2008
Jason Morton: When one stops to think about the UK summer music festival scene – the sheer number of events, the stages and attractions, the amount of talent trekking across the country to entertain the drunk and drugged up crowds – one could easily thin...
Records :: Album Review 01 Apr 2008
Darren Carle: Mountain Battles: a title that conjures up visions of the Deal twins rising tectonically from the rubble to slay the young upstarts and naysayers. Well, not quite. Opening track Overglazed ushers in a more wide-eyed rebirth of inner-belief, Kim Deal em...
Music :: Preview 01 Apr 2008
Darren Carle: What started as a rather muted off-shoot with 1990's Pod album - born from singer Kim Deal's frustrations at her Pixies band-mate Frank Black and his increasing autonomy on song writing duties - has very slowly become Deal's de facto concern. If tales ...
