Reviews

LIVE: Kof @ Liverpool Sound City 22.05.2015

Kof has been around ‘since Dick docked’, as we say in Liverpool.  He’s a regular at local festivals and like Esco Williams or MIC Lowry, seems happy being a big fish in a small pond.  It’s a laid back mix…

Tracks Of The Week, 22.05.15

Channelling a razor-sharp, extremely poignant Chvrches sound, is Aylee‘s startlingly atmospheric new track, ‘Learn To Swim’. The title-track from the forthcoming Learn To Swim EP is one of the freshest outlooks on pop music, squaring up to the idea that…

Brandon Flowers LIVE @ O2 Academy, Brixton 21.5.15

The voice of Brandon Flowers is instantly recognisable. The Las Vegas-born singer has spent twelve years in the charts as front man of alternative rock band, The Killers, and with the release of his debut album Flamingo in 2010, he…

LIVE: Gemma Hayes @ Leaf, Liverpool 16.05.15

For those who don’t live in Liverpool, Leaf is a teashop.  It combines two of my many obsessions: tea and music.  Ergo, it is one of my favourite venues.  Sipping a nice Gunpowder tea, a few tables back is an…

FILM: Ghetts – ‘War of the Minds’

This new documentary about the East London grime artist Ghetts takes an avant-garde approach to its subject, and is told from the perspective of his three personalities: Ghetto, Ghetts and Justin. Throughout War of the Minds it’s clear that this…