Call Upon The Author

Matt Merritt braves the streets of Southampton in his quest to review two of CUTA’s favourites!

Matt Merritt heads to his second home (seriously, head down there, he’ll be the guy at the end of the bar slugging cider) to check out London neo-grungers Bleech

Dorset girl Jazz Morley is something special, an artist who excites not because of skimpy outfits or provocative dance routines, but purely due to the power of her voice. Matt Merritt thinks she’ll be one to watch in 2011

in the lead up to Christmas, Matt Merritt caught up with Gabby Young to find out more about her and the unique music that she makes.

have noticed that there have been no new posts on the site over the last week. Unfortunately our editor has been laid up sick and now he’s starting to get better, his wife has been taken ill. Worry not though, we’ll be back over the weekend an by Monday we will be hitting the ground running, [...]

I’m a guy, therefore I make up lists in my head… it’s just what we do. One of those lists is “top 5 musicians I’d love to interview” and The Boss is, justifiably, top of the list.

Sean Fisher hails from the industrial heartland of the UK – South Yorkshire, but has relocated to Portsmouth where he is a promising newcomer to the music scene. A singer/songwriter who draws inspiration from the natural world, Sean’s songs are also influenced by his background as an actor. Despite the fact he has only really started performing (as a singer at least) on Portsmouth stages in the last year, we’re mightily impressed with Sean’s work, so we thought we’d catch up for a chat!

The Boy I Used To Be, or Ed as he’s more commonly known, is one of the South Coast’s most exciting young songwriters. With a knack for blending everday teenage life and it’s many twists and turns into some of the loveliest music we’ve had the pleasure of listening to…

Brothers Henri and Anssi Vaxby write some of the loveliest music we’ve heard in a long time! We discovered this impressive pair through Henri’s other band (the rather lovely French For Cartridge, who we interviewed just a few days ago). Rather embarassingly, we didn’t realise at the time that they were brothers (their surnames were noticeably absent from press material). Nonetheless, Anssi took time out to answer a few questions for us.

Here at Call Upon The Author, we like music that’s a little different, so our ears pricked up when we heard French For Cartridge’s album. Ever since then, we’ve been waiting for a chance to find out a little more about this unique pair of art-poppers. We caught up with co-vocalist Catherine to find out more.