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Small Town Eyes is a decent enough debut from the Youtube sensation, Justin Sandercoe. Since teaching the nation how to play guitar via Youtube, the Australian born singer/songwriter enjoyed some time touring with Katie Melua then withdrew into a studio to record his debut album…

A charming four track EP that doesn’t travel anywhere adventurous but neither does it creep towards the disastrous. This release is planted firmly in the middle, flourishing on the safe ground.
While Alessi’s voice has a certain charming quality about it, there is something to it that might irritate people. However putting that aside The Soul Proprietor is a good collection of songs…

It opens, atmospheric, tense, eerie. It promises something great, something perhaps deranged, something that could be sheer unadulterated rock, something glorious. The guitars are introduced, then the drums. A monstrously delightful mix. The vocalist, Steve Ayres begins to sing…

Mirrorkicks is an abysmal self-titled album from an abysmal sounding band. After the first couple of songs the entire album dragged on with no promise of a quick end. On TV and Anything were a somewhat promising start to what turned out to be akin to almost forty minutes of torture. Both of them were [...]

The Optimist is a refreshing album from Londoners New Young Pony Club, especially after the monotonous disaster that was their debut, Fantastic Playroom. This release was entirely DIY and is most definitely not a botched job. Not once does it slip below an acceptable standard, threatening to bring the overall quality down. With obvious glimmers [...]

Despite the enthusiasm of the audience, the energy of the support acts and the overall rawness of the night so far, everybody backstage is strangely calm. Perhaps it has come with years of constant touring but there was still something quite eerie about stepping from a hallway with boisterous yells bombarding the walls, into a room where the most activity going on was someone shifting to get comfortable as they watched the gig downstairs on screen.

Jon Allen, a guy who goes relatively undetected but a guy who puts too much work in for it to be deserved. Hopefully, with the release of his album Dead Man’s Suit and his impending tour of Europe it’s something that is about to change. He’s a great live performer, fantastic at keeping his audience [...]

A brilliantly perfect gig for someone with brilliant potential. Not to sound too cliché or anything but the moment Jon Allen appeared on stage, emerging from a hidden door, it was clear that the night ahead was going to be a good one. He jumped straight into the first song Lay Your Burden Down and [...]

The deluxe edition of Be Human is something that all Fightstar fans should have for no other reason than the acoustic show they recorded. It gives people a chance to see them sit back and relax and perform their songs on a completely new level. Their stripped back set takes nothing away from the quality [...]

With a weird name and an even weirder press release there comes an expectation that perhaps this person is quirky, odd and slightly mad. He is! So much so that when he appears on the stage at the Joiners with a cellist in tow it is barely questionable when he makes odd comments and Stacy, [...]