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Review: Birdpen, Hijera + Science of 8 Limbs

Review: Birdpen, Hijera + Science of 8 Limbs @ The Joiners  (Birdpen Album Launch)
As I walked to The Joiners I wondered if this was the first time I had actually arrived in daylight?! Probably not, but it still seemed weird that at 8pm St Mary’s Street was yet to be anywhere Jack The Ripper would [...]

Super Furry Animals to headline Blissfields

This morning, the announcement was made that Super Furry Animals will headline the Saturday night at Bradley Farm’s Blissfields Festival.

Blissfields Ticket Launch Party @ The Soul Cellar

Blissfields Ticket Launch Party @ The Soul Cellar, 6th Feb 2009.
Photoset © Toby Binstead
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Photoset © Rob Ball
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BirdPen’s Adventure of Realisation

BirdPen are a band that will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered, and that was clear when I witnessed one of their first live performances down The Joiners a couple of years back. I was hooked then and wondered what would be next for them…well now in my hands I have their debut album and I am more than interested!….

DeagDogInBlackBag Pull Out of Blissfields Launch

Unfortunately Suzi from DeagDogInBlackBag has broken some bones and, despite making every attempt to speed up her rehabilitation, is unable to make the Southampton Blissfeilds launch gig on 6th February…

Geek-Hop rules at Winchester Live

It’s a shame this isn’t an audio review. And that the guy who did the film trailer voice-overs is dead. Otherwise this would sound more impressive: “1 week; 3 venues; 11 gigs; 55 bands…who would survive…and who would die on their ass. Only the crowd could decide.”