Pick Me Up The new single from Liverpool 7 piece Psycho Comedy kicks and rears up from the get go, galloping away towards heady echo’s of Arcade Fire evoking americana. Driving relentlessly through barnshaking pockets of 2004 amid undertones of post punk waterboys, what could be deemed repetitive ends up a strangely satisfying mini banger. […]
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A performance as magical as an actual night under the stars. I felt like I was every where that the characters were transporting us to in the story. Especially in the first sequence when they first interact in a camping trip. I actually felt like I was under the stars with them. There was something […]
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As some of the crowd started to trickle out of the Concorde 2 early, Bradford Cox called after them.“Hey you guys leaving, thanks for coming but you are about to miss the most bombastic 30 minutes of tunes weve ever played” before conferring with the band and correcting himself. “Err ok sorry actually theres about […]
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I’m used to seeing Rob Galloway fronting The Yalla Yallas. A band that delivers an incendiary live performance with Galloway spending half the set leaping around delivering his passionate, furious vocals from somewhere in the crowd. Tonight he’s solo, playing an acoustic set, tied to his guitar, standing behind a mike stand playing songs I’ve […]
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It’s 1999. Cool Britannia isn’t so cool anymore, lukewarm at best. The UK is fast running out of white male indie guitar bands to feed the Britpop machine. Creation Records, Alan McGee’s label notorious for the movement’s worst ridiculousness along with the best bits is months away from its own big sleep. And we won’t […]
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Manchester’s notorious mythmakers WU LYF burned fiercely, briefly at the beginning of this decade. They played kiss-chase games with the press before coming to an abrupt end after just one album. Bound to happen really, no one can be too cool for school for long. More positively, in the wake of the split it emerged […]
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“Country Music isn’t all Cowboy boots and Line Dancing and Acoustic music isn’t all loop pedals and rap covers.” Mike West proclaims. “We’re here to remind everyone that dark and meaningful music is here and acoustic songwriters deserve more than open mics and to play the same old cover songs.” West founded Rogue Country UK […]
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Damo Jones’ debut thriller, A Singularity, is set in the near future as the ramifications of climate change take hold. The novel’s two protagonists, Selene and Mark, embark on a fraught odyssey to make a stand against what they see as the planet’s decline and the lack of urgency to combat it. The young lovers […]
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The Academy is filling up nicely by 7.30pm. It’s good to see a decent turnout for tonight’s support – Kanga – whose reputation as a performer is growing quickly. Los Angeles based Kanga is an artist, composer and musician whose credits include work on films such as The Conjuring 2 and Insidious 3. One computer […]
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Here’s a massive hint. If you’re heading to a gig in Newcastle and United are at home and kicking off at 5.30pm don’t even try and get a parking space in town. The answer – get the Metro in from Gateshead. Quick, easy, cheap. The sold out Academy is filling quickly. Even at just after […]
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