mINtroducing
mINtroducing: The Currents
The link between the South Coast of England and Finland dates back to the late 1970’s when the Isle of Wight’s very own Razzle became drummer for the legendary Hanoi Rocks. With trade links constructed, Southampton Football Club later benefitted from the exchange with the legendary goal keeper Antti Niemi, who made 106 appearances; [...]
mintroducing: Juffage
Juffage is Jeff T. Smith, a solo sound artist and multi-instrumentalist from Leeds, via Chicago, Illinois. He is often seen in bars, art galleries, and basements with a band’s worth of instruments. He is coming to Southampton in May. Juffage A recording enthusiast at heart, he has spent time in some of Chicago’s finest studios [...]
Brighton’s Munich to go out on tour
Munich have announced that they are to head out on a UK tour around the release of their debut single ‘All Sussed Out’ on the 20th June. Having not long completed their first UK tour they are certainly not a band to let the dust settle. The dates are being finalised as we speak but we [...]
mintroducing: Find X, Then Party
Last up in our Road To Blissfields band features are Find X, Then Party. Catch them TONIGHT (Friday 15th April) at The Railway. Extending the band’s palette of influences to now include Foals and Nobuo Uematsu; Find X, Then Party get by with a combination of invisible PAs, nose to drumstick collisions and dudes falling on [...]
mintroducing: Stinger
Playing this Friday (15th April) in the last Road To Blissfields heat in Winchester are Stinger. Here’s what we know about them: Stinger are a 3 piece made up of Nick, Ross and Luke, who play an adrenalin fuelled mix of pop, reggae and rock, or in other words, music that gets your feet moving. [...]
mintroducing: Casablancas
Third from last in our Road To Blissfields featured bands is Casablancas who are all set to rock the Railway this Friday (15th April). Young four piece indie/post rock band with a great ear for a tune and growing live following. They recently supported Chapel Club at the Talking Heads in Southampton and impressed. Casablancas [...]
mintroducing: Flight Brigade
The Road To Blissfields reaches it’s final stage this week, with a trip to The Railway in Winchester on Friday (15th April 2011). As in previous weeks, we’ll be introducing the bands taking part and first up are Flight Brigade. Described by Janice Long of BBC Radio 2 as ‘astonishing‘, Flight Brigade are a rock/folk [...]
mintroducing: Arp Attack
Our final preview ahead of tonight’s Southampton’s Road To Blissfields, is Arp Attack. Previously known as Jazica, the electro-pop trio are one of the hardest working bands we know. BBC Introducing have regularly featured them, and recently had this to say: “The smoldering vocals and soaring synths of Frankie alongside quick-fingered multi-instrumentalist Chris create this [...]
mintroducing: Oresteia
Continuing our Road To Blissfields mintroducing feature, today we bring you Oresteia, a 6-piece who write melodramatic, eclectic, eccentric musical tales, and recently found themselves supporting Delays (review here_) Alakazammy, Stairheid Rammy by Oresteia As recently described by our own Onion Ringo (can we call him “our own” yet?) in his review, “Oresteia have upbeat melodies [...]
mintroducing: New Broadcast Group
Appearing at The Road to Blissfields, Southampton, this Friday are the very hotly tipped New Broadcast Group. Since making their debut by opening the Southampton Oxjam Festival last October to a packed Hamptons crowd, the band have quickly gained themselves a reputation as one of the best live acts in the South. Windows by New [...]
mintroducing: Tricycle Tunes
The Road To Blissfields hits Southampton, The Cellar this week, and we begin our feature on the bands playing for a slot at the festival by bringing you Tricycle Tunes. Tricycle Tunes finished sixth in the preliminary round (out of over 100 acts who applied) and are a late addition due to the withdrawal of [...]
mintroducing: Will McNicol and Jack Palmer
Today, in our Road To Blissfields (Portsmouth) build up, we feature two young men with bags of talent. Both well known for their own solo projects, Jack Palmer and Will McNicol first teamed up for last year’s Southsea Fest and received great reviews for their troubles, even touted by some as the ‘highpoint of the [...]
mintroducing: BigTopp
Continuing our Road To Blissfields coverage ahead of the Portsmouth gig this Friday, today we bring you BigTopp. BigTopp are a massive ska band from Portsmouth whose front man recently excelled on Total Wipeout by not falling in the water too often! They’ve formed in October 2006 and have since headlined The Joiners, won Battle [...]
mintroducing: Etao Shin
Southampton based record label, Sotones, have just announced a new signing. Etao Shin was formed in 2009 when Joe Kelly, Steve Haynes and Ben Kill came together in order to play some songs that Kelly had written for his final year university project. However, “half of the songs we played needed a string quartet and [...]
mintroducing: Hobo Sapphire
Following on from yesterday’s introduction of Bear Cavalry in the run up to this Friday’s Road To Blissfields gig in Portsmouth, today we bring you Hobo Sapphire. The brainchild of six teenagers, Southsea-based group Hobo Sapphire come beautifully armed with an arsenal of sonic bliss, amidst a flowing breadth of imagination. With an already impressive [...]
mintroducing: Bear Cavalry
Each day this week, in the run up to the first Road To Blissfields gig in Portsmouth this Friday (1st April 2011) we will be featuring each band that have been selected to play. First up are Bear Cavalry. Bear Cavalry are a four piece band from Gosport currently getting rave reviews from the likes of [...]