Discovery Of The Week: Balloon Ascents
According to the old folk, teenagers can only drink, be violent or make crappy pop music. Even I, as a fellow young adult, find that many bands of my age group simply want to be the Arctic Monkeys and have…
Author Archives: Elli Brazzill
LIVE: Ghostpoet – Gullivers, Manchester 29.01.15
Rating: The roads are closed and services terminated all over the country due to some flurries of snow, and Manchester is no exception. Luckily, the crowd seem to have braved the harsh weather to cram into Gullivers for tonight’s sold…
Discovery Of The Week: The Orielles
The current expectancy for great surf pop is for it to arise from the sunny highs of California and Miami, but The Orielles are knocking this stereotype on the head. Hailing from Halifax and with 2 out of 3 band…
Discovery Of The Week: Little Lapin
With the musical aura of Regina Spektor, the voice of an optimistic Laura Marling and all the cool overtones of Chrissie Hynde, Little Lapin has found a unique sound and she’s ready to show it to the world. Lucy Cioffi…
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: The Marks Cartel – ‘Curtain Call’
Welsh rockers, The Marks Cartel, have gone all out for their debut single ‘Curtain Call’. Already receiving radio play and rocking out crazy shows in Swansea, they’re ready to take it to the next level. Their brand spanking new video…
Discovery Of The Week: Martin Callingham
Sometimes, music comes right when you need it most. Like a movie, where the princess has been captured, with a knife to her throat: suddenly, the protagonist comes to save her right in the nick of time. These scenarios don’t happen…
TRACK REVIEW: Mark Barrett – ‘Tomorrow (One Day Away)’
Everyone loves the classic singer-songwriter. Dylan, Cash, Cohen – it’s impossible to not be taken over by the power of an acoustic guitar. That same feeling of warmth and comfort comes from Worcestershire singer-songwriter Mark Barrett. His crooning Northern voice…
Ones To Watch: Flesh
Cities like Birmingham have taken over recently with a surge of great new bands – an eccentric wave of excitement. However, Flesh – one of the coolest band to come out of Manchester since The Stone Roses – might just…
Ones To Watch: Springh
Springh, a grunge pop duo from London have just released their debut single ‘Silhouette’, and it’s one not to be missed. The track’s concise sound is down to the chemistry within the band. Guitarist Sam Swift-Glasman and violinist Lisa Sara Jenkin first met…
INTERVIEW: ZIBRA
ZIBRA are not your normal group of young guys in a band, in an age of growing new forms of technological advancements, they look back and take the best parts of the good old days to make their unique sound…