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The Great Escape Diary – Day 3

Ah, Saturdays in Brighton. The busiest day of the festival, plus a herd of confused shoppers trampling you underfoot. Bliss.
The day starts in a confused fashion, with everyone piling downstairs into the Queens Hotel to see the Chapman Family.  There’s been a change in the programme however, and we’re about an hour early. Instead mINtSOUTH [...]

Photos: The Best of The Great Escape

The Best of The Great Escape festival 2010, in photos. Including: Pulled Apart by Horses, Groove Armada, Marina and the Diamonds, Ellie Goulding, Band of Skulls, Teenagers in Tokyo, Fenech-Soler, Ou Est le Swimming Pool, Art vs Science, Cabin Fever, Esben and the Witch, Peggy Sue + more.

In Search of Skulls by Oliver Gray at SXSW

Whenever I am at South By South West, I keep my eyes open for Hampshire bands.  This is a strange thing to do in Texas, but I am aware I’ll be doing reviews for Hampshire publications and that they like a “local angle”. It’s normally quite a hapless task because, although half the musical population [...]

Review: Band Of Skulls, Drawings & Moneytree

Band of Skulls, Drawings & Moneytree. The Talking Heads, Southampton. February 13th 2010
Fleeing New York were always a good band. Certainly one of the better South Coast bands. Despite this, I always had the feeling they’d be forever playing their own club nights to 200 people. To break on to the bigger [...]

Southampton’s Band Of Skulls are back

Band of Skulls have been gaining themselves a whole load of new fans this week after the national media finally started to give them much deserved column inches and radio play.
Described last year by Rolling Stone magazine as a shit-kicking, bare-bones brand of gritty rock & roll trio, Radio 1’s Fearne Cotton earlier in the [...]

mINtroducing Some To Watch in Twenty10…

Forgetting all about acts like Marina and the Diamonds, The Drums and Ellie Goulding, who are all guaranteed  their share of success after being nominated in various “Tips for 2010” lists,  mintsouth’s Jodie Copeland has (probably stupidly) decided to have a pop at what bands I think you should be watching out for in Twenty10.
The [...]

Small Seeds – Hong Kong Gardeners November Update

So what has been happening in the Hong Kong Gardeners potting shed this month? Not a lot as it happens. We have been having a rest from putting on gigs, which has given us some time to actually listen to some music for once.
With the excitement and the exhaustion of Southsea Fest it has been [...]

Review: Band of Skulls + I See Sparks

Honesty is a hallmark of mINtSOUTH reviews. It’s why you read them. It’s vital. So here comes some good old fashioned truth.
We were late, and we missed the first support act.
We got a bit lost because we were coming from the wrong direction, and we missed  Drawings. I saw them sitting at their merch table [...]

The Southsea Fest mINterviews: Band of Skulls

Band of Skulls @ Southsea Fest
2210 – 2300 @ The Fat Fox

Emma Richardson, Matt Hayward, Russell Marsden
mINtSOUTH: Tell me a bit about yourselves.
Matt: “Me and Russell, when we were little children we were playing music. Same beards, we didn’t really look too much different – beards, sunglasses, hangover. We’ve been playing in various different bands, [...]