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Syd Arthur : On and On

15/06/2012

Syd Arthur wear their Pink Floyd influences openly. There’s the Syd Barret reference in their name, as well as a typographical similarity between the A for Arthur on their album cover and the...

The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls [Live]

14/06/2012

It is with sadness that I must report the departure of The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls. A band I had the pleasure of bearing witness to just this April 2012. The band decided it is the right time...

The debut album from sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow has a milder feel than the live shows, the punch and rawness extracted to leave a more mellow sound. Since the beginning of 2012 2:54 have been...

Kate Tempest: Wasted [Theatre]

09/06/2012

Wasted is the new play by brilliant rapper, poet and spoken word artist Kate Tempest. This is her first play performed by Pleasance Plough Theatre company from Bristol. The play opens with a...

Piano Magic: Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet

07/06/2012

Eleven albums into a music career which can lay a fair claim to the title 'cult band', Piano Magic resist categorisation by virtue of developing and altering their musical style with each...

Tropic of Cancer: Permissions of Love

06/06/2012

Tropic of Cancer are the American duo Camella Lobo and Juan Mendez (a.k.a. Techno producer Silent Servant). They've slowly gained a following in the last couple of years and now present their...

IzIggy and Some Weird Sinners: Long Island [Gig]

02/06/2012

zIggy and Some Weird Sinners, billed as Europe's No 1 Iggy Pop tribute act...

Friends: Manifest

01/06/2012

Friends are a 5 piece Brooklyn band, not yet two years old, who you might have noticed gathered a lot of buzz back at the end of 2011. Their name suggests a kind of exclusivity- An ambiguous Google...

Fish/Glenn Hughes [Live Review]

30/05/2012

'a night of two veteran performers both of whom have still "got it"' Tim Hall reviews. Double headline shows are an increasingly common phenomenon nowadays. In these economically...

Dinowalrus: Best Behavior

29/05/2012

Warrington's Parr Hall saw the Stone Roses' comeback gig just last Wednesday, playing a free concert for fans who could produce some physical merchandise-based evidence of their devotion. Rock and...

Trailer Trash Tracys: Hoxton Live Review.

25/05/2012

"Pop sass braced with rock raunch, a retrodelic romp through an imaginary all-American idyll of cheerleaders, T-Birds and prom-night cooties" – Sean Keenan,Trebuchet. On its...

Maz Totterdell: Sweep

21/05/2012

Puppyskinner, nonce. What more? Elitist pseud, naysaying neverwas, pen-envious killjoy bubble-burster. Or, as Samuel Beckett worded his most venomous insult – 'CRITIC!'. For what or who...

Vengeance and the Panther Queen: EP Review

15/05/2012

Cramming in the pyrotechnic axe-wizardry of metal, the chundering drums of dance, and the infantile personal politics of punk. Vengeance and the Panther Queen sometimes get it right. Without even...

1234 – Action 01! : Richmix : Savages

14/05/2012

Tonight is one of four warm-up parties to 1234 Shoreditch festival at the Richmix on Bethnal Green Road : Featuring the Savages...

Loitered Lens: Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers

13/05/2012

Legendary Shack Shakers - 04/23/12 London Underworld United Kingdom. ...

The Mercy House: Barfly, London.

09/05/2012

The Mercy House are getting a reputation for reinventing smartrock for a new generation. But will it blend? The Mercy House have the right musical mixture for the times, simultaneously...

Elvis Costello & The Imposters : The Revolver Tour DVD

07/05/2012

Elvis Costello: The Revolver Tour DVD is the quintessential live document – imperfect, improvised, unusual and reactive. Rarely does a UK musician make his love of the Grateful Dead...

Groof: Reality Fails

07/05/2012

'In the best tradition of Spanish minimal techno', Codex Europa reviews Roberto Gemelin's techno project Groof. Groof is veteran Spanish producer Roberto Gemelín a.k.a. Robert...

Small Faces: Deluxe Editions

04/05/2012

A seminal collection of songs, in the word's true sense. Unfortunately, so abused is the adjective that we tend to read on, having taken it to mean some glib variation of 'good'. In...

De Profundis: The Emptiness Within

02/05/2012

'describing it as "extreme" is pushing things a little'. Trebuchet's Tim Hall takes issue with genre headings. The Emptiness Within is the third album by this British-based...

Tricky, Maxinquaye: Live – Manchester

29/04/2012

“I drink ‘til I’m drunk”. Maybe we all have something in common. Warrington, I missed my stop. Luckily I met a nice pair of ladies in Lizzy and Jenni (note. A soft Scottish...

The Bermondsey Joyriders: Noise and Revolution

28/04/2012

The Bermondsey Joyriders’ Noise and Revolution is a detoured route through the cultural backroads of pre-revolutionary London. A journey that comes with a large dose of rootsy musical knowledge,...

Onefest – The Coldest Festival of the Season

28/04/2012

Onefest. First Festival of the Year, or Coldest Festival of the Year. The festival season kicks off in mid-April with Onefest, which claims to be the first festival of the year, or could be the...

Hannah Cohen: Child Bride

27/04/2012

Hannah Cohen’s debut album Child Bride seems a fitting April/May release for those of us that are struggling through transition of the awkward weather and mishaps of general life, but should you...

Simian Ghost [Live]

25/04/2012

'a loungy, laid back world of observations and occurrences' Trebuchet's Samantha Chamberlain reviews Simian Ghost live at Surya. Simian Ghost, Suraya, Kings Cross. 10th April. Sebastian...

George Harrison: Early Takes Volume One

23/04/2012

'a light hand on production, a closeness and immediacy, and a simplicity that is utterly seductive', George Harrison's Early Takes reviewed. An accompaniment to the DVD release of Martin...

Esoteric Antenna Showcase Night [Live]

20/04/2012

'more like a mini-festival than a regular gig'. Tim Hall reviews Esoteric Antenna's showcase night at Camden's Underworld. To mark the launch of their new "frontline" label...

Trioscapes: Separate Realities

18/04/2012

If there is a musical equivalent of preservation instinct, it would kick in for most people when jazz and metal meet that most portentious word: fusion. When the proposition involves just drums, bass...

Yppah: 81

13/04/2012

An attempt to recreate or capture the melodic theme to his own childhood, Yppah (Joe Corrales Jr) named this album 81 to reflect the year of his birth. Childhood musical influences usually tend...

Touchstone at The Duchess, York

12/04/2012

Playing progressive rock with the emphasis on rock, Touchstone have achieved much in the past few years. They've now got three full-length studio albums and an American festival appearance under...

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