Reviews

Pete Molinari LIVE @ The Cluny, Newcastle 11.09.14

Rating: I’d argue if you don’t know who Pete Molinari is by now then firstly, what have you been doing with your life and secondly, you haven’t discovered good music yet. His mixed roots which include an upbringing from a…

ALBUM REVIEW: Star.One ‘Elements’

Rating: Sibling radio hosts, producers, and DJs Adam and Joe started their Star.One project back in 2011, being hailed as ‘one of the most exciting producers’ by the Red Bull Music Academy. Since then they have gone on to perform…

LIVE: Bestival, Robin Hill Park, Isle Of Wight 04-07.09.14

Rating: By name and by nature, Bestival has become one of the UK’s most loved festivals, and closed 2014’s season in its now renowned style, where castaways and natives joined forces to create the ultimate desert island disco. With huge…

Album Review: U2 ‘Songs Of Innocence’

Rating: Its been a seemingly impossible thirty-four years since U2 debut album ‘Boy’ hit our ears for the first time and its been a solid five years since we last heard Bono’s unmistakable voice via album ‘No Line On The Horizon’. U2…

ALBUM REVIEW: Jaws ‘Be Slowly’

As Peace move towards a change of style – and not a good one – and Swim Deep seem to have slipped out of the public eye, that revered ol’ ‘B-Town’ scene finds itself with a new flag bearer. Sure,…

LIVE: Festival No. 6, Portmeirion, Wales 05-07.9.14

Festivals belong in fields, or so I once thought. “Just 20,000 people standing in a field” sang Jarvis sardonically – written, mind, before Pulp’s seminal Glastonbury performance in 1995. All you need to accurately recreate the typical festival experience is…

ALBUM REVIEW: The Flies ‘Pleasure Yourself’

Rating: Having moved from a major label to their friends from Library Music Recordings, The Flies were free to release their second LP – Pleasure Yourself – in their favourite format, a limited edition octagonal gatefold vinyl, alongside its online…