Reviews

Saint Agnes LIVE @ The Old Blue Last 24.06.14

Rating: I’m not sure what I expected as I travelled across London to see Saint Agnes play. The Old Blue Last pub/venue was graced with my presence fairly early in the evening and straight away I could hear the bass…

ALBUM REVIEW: BL_NK SP_C_S ‘Memory Man’

Rating: Here we have a bedroom auteur in thrall to the ‘80s. Do we need anymore? On the evidence of this, yes. This is an album that likes a bass sound, running the full gamut of phat, phunky, phrobbing, phumping,…

Kasabian LIVE @ Victoria Park, Leicester 21.06.14

Rating: For weeks, if not months, Leicester has been buzzing with the prospect that its biggest export (apart from Walkers Crisps) would be coming home in style. Having not seen an outdoor music event on this scale since 2003 Victoria…

Tracks Of The Week, 21.06.14

Following singles including ‘Kathleen’ and ‘Rango’, everyone’s favourite Welsh indie-rockers are back with new tune, ‘Fallout’; and, having already received acclaim from Radio 1, Xfm and 6Music, it would seem that Van and co. have done it again. Catfish And…

LIVE: Isle Of Wight Festival 2014

Nostalgia is the name of the game for Thursday night with performances from a Jam tribute band coupled alongside Madchester stalwarts The Inspiral Carpets. However, it doesn’t get more sentimental than Boy George. The ’80s icon looks in better shape…

ALBUM REVIEW: Aphex Twin ‘Caustic Window’

With 2001’s ‘Drukqs’ being the most recent release from James D Hunter under his Aphex Twin alias, fans of the electronic musician and composer will have been ecstatic to see a digital copy of his lost album ‘Caustic Love’ surface…

EP Review: The Lake Poets – ‘Honest Hearts’

Rating: Hailing from Sunderland, multi-instrumentalist Martin Longstaff has really begun to build a credible reputation for himself. Drawing on the influences of legendary American folk singer Neil Young, he has gone on to support young sensation Jake Bugg as well…