Track Of The Week: Psycho Comedy – Pick Me Up

Track Of The Week: Psycho Comedy – Pick Me Up

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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 Under Three Moons – review

Under Three Moons – review

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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 Deerhunter at Concorde 2, Brighton review

Deerhunter at Concorde 2, Brighton review

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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 Interview with Super Furry Animals

Interview with Super Furry Animals

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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 Damo Jones – interview and excerpt from A Singularity

Damo Jones – interview and excerpt from A Singularity

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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 Gary Numan + KANGA. Newcastle Academy, 26.09.19.

Gary Numan + KANGA. Newcastle Academy, 26.09.19.

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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