Archive for October, 2012
Southsea Fest nominated for Artrocker award
Portsmouth’s Southsea Fest has been short-listed in the Best Festival category in the second annual Artrocker Awards – the nominees of which have been announced today. Taking inspiration from the old Brat awards, this year’s event will be a real rock’n’roll party, crowning the winners of 13 award categories (Nominees listed below). Artrocker is best known for [...]
Mumford & Sons announce new single details
Mumford & Sons release their new single, ‘Lover Of The Light’, on the 3rd December. It is taken from their second album, ‘Babel‘, out now through Gentlemen of The Road/Island Records. ‘Lover of the Light‘ is a song that Mumford & Sons had been playing live months before they settled into the recording sessions for [...]
review: TJH87 – Break Away Kicks
Granted, Finland may not be the country you think of straight away when you think of electronic music, but TJH87 bring some Gallic sophistication to that particular corner of Scandinavia- having put the long, cold nights to use listening to nothing but Daft Punk and Justice on this evidence. Break Away Kicks could easily have passed for [...]
Review: The Crooked Beat – Ghost / Politicians
The Crooked Beat are a get together of established and revered musicians trying something new, its paying off. I’m not an expert in ‘psych-rock-dub’ (assuming it’s not a new genre) but I can feel strong roots in Reggae/Dub beneath the sweet icing exterior of Megan Thomas’ unique vocal sound. The band are thoroughly authentic to [...]
The View announce new single and head to Bournemouth
The View put the finishing touches to an excellent year, that saw them return with the Top 10 album ‘Cheeky For A Reason’, with the confirmation of a fresh Winter Tour. The tour will see them perform up and down the country as well as 2 special shows at the legendary Glasgow Barrowland and finishes [...]
Bastille announce biggest headline tour to date
To celebrate the release of their new single, ‘Flaws’, Bastille are pleased to announce their biggest tour to date. The band will appear at sixteen cities across the UK with a visit to Southampton’s Mo Club on Thursday, 7th March 2013. Tickets go on general sale on Friday 26th October from http://www.kililive.com/artists/bastille/ It seems there is no [...]
Interview: Chuck D (Public Enemy)
Well, different music and cultures can bring us together as human beings and that’s very important and music is music.
Biffy Clyro announce date at Bournemouth BIC
Fresh from a triumphant return to the live arena with festival dates which included iTunes, Download, the Isle of Wight and Rockness, Biffy Clyro will follow the January 28th 2013 release of their eagerly anticipated new double-album ‘Opposites’ with their biggest arena tour to date, including the BIC in Bournemouth on March 26th. Biffy Clyro [...]
Review: Remnant Psyche – Metal
If anyone needed reminding of the abiding influence of Suicide on electronic music, look no further; Alan Vega and Martin Rev would no doubt approve of Remnant Psyche. Metal somehow marries the bombast of their maiden outing (the self-titled Suicide) to the merest whiff of the comparative accessibility of their second (also confusingly titled Suicide, but also known more simply [...]
Your Reviews: Bloc Party at Southampton Guildhall
Autumn in Southampton is finally beginning to rear its head, with torrential downpours soaking the Bloc Partiers as they await their quarry. Damp in body they may be, but not in spirit. Bloc Party are back, and they mean business. In a hit strewn career spanning set they roar into life in front of an [...]
Review: Bloc Party at Southampton Guildhall
Bloc Party at Southampton Guildhall, 17 October 2012 ‘Here we go again’ the crowd thought, as Bloc Party started proceedings with the first song from their latest record. But this band has always done things in its own way, and thankfully the evening was far from the unimaginative ‘new album plod’ many large outfits playing [...]
33 rpm Review: Dizraeli and the Small Gods – Never Mind
Future festival favourites: Rap, poetry, beatbox, folky-Englishness – all stoked up with catchy wordplay, scratches, harmonies and infectious lively rhythms. Proper English roots-rap. Downside? Probably posher than their ‘common-man’ collective implies. 9/10 You might like if you like – Scroobius Pip, Kate Tempest / Sound of Rum, Dreadzone, Galliano Teaser: Release Date: 22nd October http://www.dizraeli.com http://www.facebook.com/Dizraeli [...]
review: Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
Winter is coming, and doesn’t Bat For Lashes (Natasha Khan)- know it. The Haunted Man is the ideal soundtrack to a cold night indoors- she’s come a long way from the girl who by her own admission would bunk off school and listen to Nirvana tapes all day. Anything she learned from Kurt Cobain and [...]
Twin Atlantic’s Stratos Spaced Out mix soundtracks Felix Baumgartner’s death defying jump
Glasgow’s acclaimed alt-rock quartet Twin Atlantic enjoyed a stratospheric rise in their profile this weekend when the Spaced Out remix of ‘Free’ – the title track from their current Silver-certified album – soundtracked Felix Baumgartner’s landing as he completed his awe-inspiring Red Bull Stratos jump. The mix was commissioned specifically for the event. You can relive the moment right here: They play Southampton Guildhall on November 7th. Baumgartner’s jump became [...]
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