Xfm/O2 Live Session: Bloc Party @ The Mean Fiddler

Bloc Party, Mean Fiddler, Thursday 25 January 2007
No matter how you introduce one of the country’s most successful acts of recent times, it’s never going to quite nail the anticipation. That task this evening fell to Iain Baker: “These guys have sold out that place 35 years to my right three nights next week so [...]

The final Trash

Excuse the lateness of this post, coming nigh on a week since the actual event, but much of this week has been spent reflecting in That Night’s legacy and the vacuum that it has created – oh Lordy, will Monday nights ever be the same again? Truth is, they will be, when the kerfuffle over [...]

The Last Party – Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock

Happy New Year, onon hag oll (that’s Cornish for “one and all”), as Cornwall’s where the indie review’s staff has been spending Christmas and not quite New Year. Considering festive TV was as stale as opened but uneaten mince pies three days later, reading was the chosen means of whiling away the time between Christmas [...]