[Reviewed for Gigwise.com]
Tues 28/11/06 @ King’s College London
The Sunshine Underground is named after a Chemical Brothers track and is just as danceable, but don’t call these guys indie-dance! Or indie-rave. They are often touted as the new Kaiser Chiefs, not because their sound is similar (they’re much rockier), but because they’re searingly tipped to scale [...]
The Sunshine Underground
White Rose Movement
[The Old Blue Last, Gr Eastern St, London, Thurs 23rd November 2006]
Having just stumbled inside the popular Shoreditch boozer, rammed wall-to-wall with airy PR types, games fanatics and industry insiders, I peg it upstairs to one of the pub circuit’s better venues and there the quintet stand, midway through their performance of one of Epworth-enhanced [...]
Heath – Fache brut – the further adventures of Spondoolix & Spizzerinctum
[Reviewed for Maps]
Heath is David Rhee and Stephen Heath, just two chaps but between them (yes, they’re self-produced and self-released) they’ve carved out a seventeen-sided gem – albeit at times it lacks lustre – of listenable acoustic Americana. With a punk tinge. Heath (Rhee doesn’t sound as good, does it?) recorded their debut long player [...]
How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
I didn’t find out last night, despite going along to the much-vaunted indie club of the same name. Indeed, the NME would have you believe it’s “legendary” and there are many more similarly gushing reviews out there.For those of you unfamiliar with HDIF, it’s an indie pop night, taking place on the first Friday of [...]
Wolfmother, MTV2 Spanking New Music Tour
Carling Academy Brixton, London, Wednesday 15th November 2006 [reviewed for gigwise.com]
It sold out way back in July and no wonder, seeing rock’s current best live act Wolfmother are headlining the fifth MTV2 Spanking New Music Tour.Striking frontman Andrew Stockdale leads the curly-haired trio through a riotous evening down at Brixton, opening with ‘Dimension’. For archetypes [...]
Vega4 – You and Others
Vega4 – You and Others Released 30th October 2006 on Sony BMG, reviewed for mapsmagazine.co.uk
This review could be done in a single sentence: ‘If you like Snow Patrol, buy this album’ but I don’t think that would get past my editor, so here’s the rest.
This international four piece (singer Johnny McDaid hails from Ireland), the [...]
