For the first time in ages a song of actual quality has burst into the singles chart, where it has spent three weeks at number one so far and selling in excess of half a million copies. Fans of dance music have been waiting a long time for something great, since they haven’t been given [...]
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Delta Mainline are a seven piece band led by frontman and songwriter David McLachlan. ‘Oh! Enlightened’ is their first full length effort, and also one of the best debuts of the year so far. The booming stomp of ‘Misinformation’ introduces the band with distorted bass, squealing guitars and a big bright sound full of [...]
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RW/FF is a weekly column written by Ben P Scott for music and culture site God Is In The TV. Those of you familiar with the column will know that it usually gets published every Friday. Well this week due to a lack of spare time there is no column, but instead here is the [...]
View Post Beady Eye, Black Reindeer, Bonobo, Edwyn Collins and The Heartbreaks, Frank Turner, Manic Street Preachers, Miles Kane, Neon Neon, Olympian, OMD, Parlour Flames, Paul Weller, Public Service Broadcasting, RW/FF With Ben P Scott, Samba Toure, SAVAGES, six.by seven, Space, The Fall, The PastelsLots to get through this week, including brilliant new albums from Primal Scream, The Fall and Public Service Broadcasting. New music from Gary McClure, Dingus Khan, Stephen Jones, Savages, Mugstar, G.D.D.L.F, Editors, These New Puritans, Parlour Flames, Goldheart Assembly and Queens Of The Stone Age. As Blur announce the possibility of new material, their 1993 [...]
View Post Babybird, Blur, David Bowie, Dingus Khan, Editors, Edwyn Collins, G.D.D.L.F, Gary McClure, Goldheart Assembly, Mark E Smith, Mugstar, Oasis, Parlour Flames, Primal Scream, Public Service Broadcasting, Queens of the Stone Age, RW/FF With Ben P Scott, SAVAGES, Stephen Jones, The Fall, These New Puritans
Today is May 10th 2013, and exactly two decades ago today Blur released their classic second album ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’. At the time it was just a moderately successful album by a declining indie band that only just reached number 15. 20 years on it’s now regarded as a sea change in British music and [...]
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Four years in the making, Public Service Broadcasting‘s debut LP follows the release of a number of brilliant singles and EPs. ‘Inform-Educate-Entertain’ is a superb representation of what the duo do, live drums and voice samples from old films being their trademarks. The opening title track provides a good tone setter, preparing the listener for [...]
View Post Inform-Educate-Entertain, Public Service Broadcasting, Test Card REcordings
The Fall mean different things to different people. To some it’s just a northern bloke shouting random nonsense over repetitive music, while to others they represent an ever-changing musical revelation fronted by one of the greatest poets of our time, and an outfit that continues to experiment and break boundaries. They were John Peel‘s favourite [...]
View Post Cherry Red, Mark E Smith, The Fall
In 1997, Primal Scream changed the way I listened to music forever, with their phenomenal ‘Vanishing Point’. The follow up ‘XTRMNTR’ turned me on to politics and various music genres I hadn’t explored previously. It was perhaps inevitable that after those two magnificent albums, subsequent releases failed to match such outstanding quality. 2008′s ‘Beautiful Future’ [...]
View Post Bobby Gillespie, Kevin Shields, Primal Scream, robert plantThis week I talk about the way that listening to music has changed over the last decade or so, and why more choice is a good and bad thing. Plus there’s new music from Savages, Public Service Broadcasting, Neon Neon, The Pastels, Samba Toure, Hookworms, Beady Eye and Gentleman’s Dub Club. Earlier this week I [...]
View Post Beady Eye, Gentleman's Dub Club, HOOKWORMS, Neon Neon, Public Service Broadcasting, RW/FF With Ben P Scott, Samba Toure, SAVAGES, The Pastels
Olympian‘s debut EP ‘Back To The Great Lakes’ was released a few weeks ago on April 1st. Olympian is the latest musical project from Manchester-based singer-songwriter Aron Robinson. He describes the EP as being “a very personal record that deals with loss and not wanting to let go but learning that you have to”. Olympian have gained fans [...]
View Post Aron Robinson, I am Kloot, introducing, John Bramwell, Olympian, preaching from the pewsThis week: Record Store Day turns out brilliantly, and I check out some great live music from James, Echo And The Bunnymen, and Jordan Whatley. Plus Edwyn Collins, The Fall, the Manics, Deej Dhariwal, Six By Seven, Frank Turner, Black Reindeer, Olympian and the Levellers. Then in the second half of the column, my memories [...]
View Post Black Reindeer, Deej Dhariwal, Echo and the Bunnymen, Edwyn Collins, Frank Turner, James, Jordan Whatley, Manic Street Preachers, Olympian, Record Store Day, RW/FF With Ben P Scott, six.by seven, The Fall, Thought Forms
Somehow managing to win fans from the punk, indie and folk scenes, The Levellers are a lot more successful than what some people remember. In the 90′s they had more gold and platinum selling albums than any other UK act during that decade. They still hold the record for the largest stagefront crowd at Glastonbury. [...]
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It’s not often that you get to see a double bill quite like this. Two legendary bands touring the UK together both with rich backgrounds and fantastic reputations. Needless to say, it’s bound to be a great night when Echo And The Bunnymen are on the bill, but for James to be following them is [...]
View Post Echo and the Bunnymen, GIG REVIEW, gigs, Ian McCulloch, James, Photography, review, Tim BoothSo last week I informed readers that this week’s column would feature new albums from The Wonder Stuff, OMD, Roddy Woomble, Bonobo and lots more. But of course that hasn’t happened. It’s been a busy week, which I’ve spent listening to the brilliant new Primal Scream album ‘More Light’, attempting to find a job, dealing [...]
View Post Edwyn Collins, Inspiral Carpets, Paul Weller, Primal Scream, Pulp, Raves From The Grave, Record Store Day, Record Store Day 2013, Record Store Month, RW/FF With Ben P Scott, The Fall