“Best bit of the comeback gig was seeing Russell in some voluminous shorts coupled with socks and sandals. A classic combo.” Following our recent interview with Pulp’s Russell Senior, we tracked down their long-serving drummer, Nick Banks at his family pottery business (above which Pulp used to rehearse) and asked him a few questions. Ok, [...]
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This week saw the release of the second album from Glasgow’s gloriously miserable Ewan Grant AKA Algernon Doll. If you’re a fan of Elliot Smith you’ll find it easy to get where Grant is coming from with his dark take on life. Where his debut was more acoustic and introspective his new album Citalo-pop is [...]
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“I’m still going…alive and kicking, just about. I’m 37 years old now man” Dublin born Davey MacManus, the songwriter and former firebrand vocalist of The Crimea talks about how he is, but what most people will want to know is where he has been for all this time? “So, I got sick and tired about talking about [...]
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It’s a crazy time right about now for CSS. They’re touring madly – they knocked our socks off with their live show in Liverpool two weeks ago, on a weekend that they’d also played in London, at ATP and in Israel no less. It’s probably something to do with the fact they’ve got their hotly [...]
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Every new generation of music has brought a different approach. The current technological state is allowing artists to be able to record instrumentally vast albums of a high quality without the need to fork out for extortionate studio time and session musician costs. As well, the decline of the record label is seeing more and [...]
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Dark Dark Horse is the alliance between producer and Maybeshewill member Jamie Ward and singer James Stafford. Their debut album Centuries originally came out in November 2010 on the Japanese record label Rallye, but has now been released in this country on 27th May on Function Records. When playing live, former Kyte member Ward and kids [...]
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Laurence Made Me Cry is the umbrella under which artist and multi-instrumentalist Jo Whitby works. Originally from Bristol she’s been a Cardiff resident and active part of the local music and artistic scenes for some time now. I saw Jo play with just a guitar around the time of the release of her debut EP [...]
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Leeds based collective Heart-Ships are one of the MOST exciting emerging UK groups in 2013! There I said it, bombast out of the way. You’ve probably heard it all twenty times this week about other bands in carefully selected quotes and the latest tips to do the rounds through mainstream music channels! But the difference [...]
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