Mouth of the South
review: The 1975, Mega Thomas and Pilot House at The Joiners
So I arrive at The Joiners in time for Mega Thomas and her band and had to fight my way to the front through a dense crowd of familiar faces. The arrival of former Thomas Tantrum front person Mega Thomas was anticipated for a while with a void of musical activity (we haven’t seen her [...]
review: The Rockstones 1st Birthday
The Rockstone Tavern in Bevois Valley, Southampton is a quaint little boozer. Boasting restaurant quality cuisine in a local pub setting its pleasing nearly all the people all the time. Many come to eat the lavish food dishes whilst surrounding themselves in a heaving bar of ale, stouts and whisky drinkers. The drinks menu is as extensive [...]
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 [...]
review: SoFest – Guildhall Square, Southampton
Southampton is getting good. Past open-air city centre cultural events have seen a drumming troupe suspended in mid air, an exhibition of ornamental fire, a huge animated ‘man’ built from ship containers…. and now simple live music in Guildhall Square. SoFest at the Guildhall Square was an immense operation. Breaking new ground for open air live [...]
review: Anja McCloskey’s single launch
Anja Mcloskey’s single launch concert was a marvellous thing. The concept was excellent, playing with an 8 piece band (and Dave Miatt) lined up alongside one of Southampton’s oldest medieval vaults and was also perfectly suited to Anja’s music which is equally timeless and decadent. I fear any attempt to recreate the same event, from [...]
33rpm Review: Franklin & James demo
A blend of lively and sombre acoustic folk music of jaunty strumming and delicate finger picking crammed together.Ideal for killing time in a bar over a pint,fun, pleasant and uplifting. www.youtube.com/franklinandjames www.franklinandjames.co.uk www.facebook.com/franklinandjames www.soundcloud.com/franklinandjames
introducing: Palms and Pelicans
Palms & Pelicans are a breath of fresh air to established guitar band pop music. Sweet melodies against crunchy trad rock guitar they punch into your musical consciousness, like digging a hole in the ground and leaving flowers to grow. The four strong guitar band hailing from the New Forest are not in any way [...]
review: Pilot House, Woven Bird and Lily Macaulay at Unit
Strolling up to Unit during daylight hours may seem like a bad idea but as it turns out, it was a great idea. I got to see 3 quality live acts, old and new for FREE. The lovely Lily Macaulay set off proceedings with her unique self penned blend of enchanting ballads laced with ancient [...]
review: The Lambrettas at The Joiners
The Mod Revival of 1979 took a proper shallacking from the music media almost before it got off the blocks (see I’m up to date – cheesy Olympics reference) – the NME preferring their stock in trade of worthy post punk and only Sounds taking a positive stance towards it out of the others – [...]
review: Arp Attack – Devils Drop
Upon first listen the latest offering from our favourite electro-pop stars Devils Drop; seems a bit ‘plinky’ and all over the place but the melody gets seriously catchy towards the end. The video is perhaps a subconscious testament to the classic 80s pop video complete with clips of TOTP style dancing and sunny frolicking on [...]
Mouth Of The South: Blissfields Festival review
I arrived early on Friday morning, specifically to catch the Oresteia live set and they were on great form. Most people seemed to be nursing hangovers/still drunk from the night before, but not me! I’m not used to seeing them equally spaced out on stage but they sounded great. The sophisticated sound system of the [...]
review: Grant Sharkey – Seriously?
Seriously? the new solo album from Toupé front man Grant Sharkey sees him return in a ‘one man and his fretless Bass ‘ mode to try and create a musical masterpiece without band mate Karl Evans to pick up the slack. A lot of the tracks are in sombre, minor sounding keys which is a bit [...]
review: Oresteia – Romancing the Damned EP
Ladies, gentlemen, ruffians, intergalactic observers, members of the jury, and…thiiiing: stand back for the marvellous, the magisterial, the sorprendente, the slightly disturbed, Oresteia! What in the name of Bod is happening in Southampton recently? I’ve never known so many good bands to be on the loose in the city at one time. It’s as if some mischievous [...]
Album Review: Skinny Lister – Forge & Flagon
They played more UK festivals than any other band in 2011 and following the release of the stunning début album from Skinny Lister they deserve to be a household name by the end of the current festival season. Skinny Lister’s Forge and Flagon is the latest offering from Rob da Banks’ Sunday Best Recordings and I can say it’s [...]
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