Author Archives: James Reynolds

Gigslutz Interview: Chris Flynn

Manchester’s Chris Flynn has casually strolled into the public eye with his new single ‘Pandora’, offering it forward as a Waits and Costello influenced work of art. Receiving a very positive reception from local news and radio, as wind of his success drifted…

ALBUM REVIEW: Dexters ‘Shimmer Gold’

Released this week (17th March), Dexters have offered the world its debut album ‘Shimmer Gold’. Packed full of Kinks and Ray Davis inspired lyrics, the album combines bygone semantics with an optimistic indie sound to bridge the gap between ‘good-old’…

Gigslutz Interview: THE HEARTBREAKS

After forming in 2009, the Heartbreaks traded in their lives of ice-cream and ‘floating’ around Morecambe to make it big in the rest of the world. An exciting, moving alternative/ indie-rock background has helped the band through an album, an EP…

ALBUM REVIEW: Dawn Landes ‘Bluebird’

My recent work for Gigslutz has introduced me to a lot of music that I never thought I’d like. Landes is an artist who I believed I hadn’t heard of before, but who apparently has been in my subconscious for…

Album Review: Simone Felice ‘Strangers’

I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect of Simone Felice. Initially curious of the folky, country genre as a whole, I listened to his album ‘Strangers’ and was pleasantly surprised. This is in no way my usual style or taste…

Frank Turner LIVE @ London 02 Arena 12.2.13

Who’d Have Thought That After All It’s Rock ‘n’ Roll? Dear Mr Turner, I apologise. An existing preconception (‘mis’ also being an appropriate interchangeable prefix here) for me until tonight was that, as a cynic still trying hopelessly to perpetuate…