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Seemingly, the name Katie-Jane Garside is a familiar one, or atleast, it should be. As resident scream queen with creep-thrashers QueenAdreena, Garside is a formidable force of something unlike nature…

It’s nice, but is it necessary? I ask myself this whenever Ray LaMontagne, Damien Rice and Jose Gonzalez release a new LP. Usually the answer is “sure, why not”. I am not saying its a bad thing but the general pool of singer-songwriters often gets polluted by people who just do it because some chick  [ Read More ]

MATTHEW CLARKE – Lost Souls & Outsiders Our very own Mr Clarke has gone an released an EP of covers spanning a range from Tom Waits down to local lad The Boy I Used To Be. Not for Matthew the glossy and polished route when recording, as I expected, he has embraced a lo-fi recording  [ Read More ]

I’m not going to lie to you, it was 2030 when we got to the venue and it was already an interesting night. My friend was, by his own admission, wasted and was worried that he wouldn’t be let in. I did the whole ‘keep cool’ routine, and it worked, but only because I wasn’t  [ Read More ]

I want to start this review by saying I have major R E S P E C T for Cosmo Jarvis. This is mainly because I had a flick through his booklet and realised this double CD (18 tracks in all) was almost completely recorded, engieneered and produced by the man himself. That said, his  [ Read More ]

Davy Knowles is a lucky dude. You see, he got to produce his CD “Coming Up For Air”, with Peter Frampton. Quite an honour. He even got the grizzled rock music legend to play some guitar and EVEN do a “rock and roll count it!” on ‘Keep on Searching’. When I first thought about the  [ Read More ]

Ok, so before I begin, I must let you know that I know NOTHING about dance music. I went to a club once and I didn’t like it. I also have it on good authority that ‘Bonkers’ by Dizzee Rascal did OK this year. But this release, a compilation mix of Umek’s work, is venturing  [ Read More ]

As music is becoming more available within the evolution of technology and, with it, comes a higher quantity of production, a line is being drawn to consider what we have and what we had. The latter attempts to attain similar qualities of a musical past or at least attempt to harness the positive aspects from  [ Read More ]

Presumably, one has been here before. A year ago to the day (funny, being that it has become an annual thing) I was stood here, looking just as bemused as I did today. But a year has proven itself to be a long time in terms of social arrangement and within seconds I have met  [ Read More ]