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ALBUM: Brian Eno ‘The Ship’

Rating: For the liner notes for his 1978 album, Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Brian Eno concluded with the sentence: “Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be…

Tracks Of The Week, 22.04.16

We all know the feeling of lacklustre love affairs. As Anteros’ frontwoman Laura Hayden says: “We’ve all been bored by someone who is too self-indulgent”. What we can’t all do, however, is express it quite as beautifully as Anteros do,…

LIVE: The Fall – o2 Ritz, Manchester 19.04.16

Having lived in Manchester for nearly three years, there are certain things that are inevitable, one of which is being called up to play bass in The Fall; Like a rock ‘n roll postcode lottery. Fearing that soon my time would…

LIVE: Augustines – Electric Ballroom, Camden 19.04.16

Augustines start their sold-out gig as they mean to go on – full tilt, blustering, anthemic, ragged and raucous. The crowd – a heartening mix of twenty to fifty-somethings, plaid shirt enthusiasts, canoodling couples – are ecstatic, as bearded, and…

COMPETITION: Win A Pair Of Tickets To Common People

Now in it’s second year, Bestival’s younger sibling Common People becomes a two-site festival for the first time in 2016, and we’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away. On May Bank Holiday (28th & 29th May) Southampton Common and…

INTERVIEW: We Are Scientists

New York indie-rockers We Are Scientists have provided their audience with many a laugh throughout their career, as well as some of the biggest indie anthems of the noughties, earning them a reputation as one of the most charming bands…

LIVE: The Cat Empire @ Hammersmith Apollo, 15.04.16

Creating their own unique brand of energy-filled party anthems for over thirteen years now, The Cat Empire have recently returned to our ears with a new album, Rising With The Sun. Australian pioneers of all things ska-funk-jazz, the band have now come…

ALBUM: She Drew The Gun ‘Memories Of The Future’

Psych-pop band She Drew The Gun have been moving along nicely throughout 2016, and have been moving fast. The Mersey band were recently winners of Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent competition, which will see them play a slot on one of the…

Tracks Of The Week, 15.04.16 – Record Store Day Special

Gigslutz favourites, Manchester’s PINS, have been wowing us for some time now with their distinctive post-punk sound and infectious charisma; 2015 was quite a year for the band with the huge success of second album Wild Nights, and exciting support…

PLAYLIST: April 2016

An hour – give or take – of what Team Gigslutz love this month: Baauer, M.I.A, G-Dragon – ‘Temple’  Taken from the highly anticipated debut from Baauer, ‘Temple’ ia a high energy banger with Eastern influences and dance-inducing bass, featuring…