REVIEW BY LAUREN WESTWOOD It’s my first Poejazzi experience and I’m not sure what’s on the cards. Performance poetry is...
This has to be the true spirit of rock’n’roll. It is loose, tough, fierce and very dangerous. And it makes...
Evidently Counterfeit aren’t one to ease you in gently. They go straight into sharp, strong, and abrasive sounds from the...
Picture the scene, it was 1986 and the NME included a compilation cassette, C86 on the cover of their magazine....
It is Refugee Week, a national festival “celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.” Founded...
Live albums are normally a bust. They either sound exactly like the studio versions, so much so that they defeat...
From When I Wake the Want is is Glasgow-based Kathryn Joseph’s second album. Her 2015 debut, Bones You Have Thrown...
The Maccabees have spoken about this, their fourth album, as being a difficult one to make. The word ‘traumatic’ has...
“The story that lay behind this batch of songs… was supposed to be probably the most ambitious concept that I...
Yeah yeah yeah, that whole “pub rock bridged the gap between rock and roll and punk” thing, with Dr. Feelgood...
“Good evening, I’m Peter Lorimer”. By way of introduction, so speaks the man with the microphone in his hand. “And...
There is a more refined sheen to Polysomn compared to Kairon; IRSE!’s astonishing debut Ujubasajuba. The band has not stayed...
Its hard to believe there was a time before Hidden Bay. Of course, I know this to be false. The...
The Moonlandingz are the ultimate band for these confusing times. Their very existence has been the subject of some debate:...
I am unsure as to whether I find it amusing or irksome that Richard Thompson‘s albums are routinely and unceremoniously...