The first act on stage at The Talking Heads tonight, Dan Rumney & the Bitter End, were a classic heavy rock outfit not unlike Motorhead or early Pantera but with more groomed vocals. Their full thrash sound certainly had the momentum and laid down the premise of the evening’s music nicely. A few of their [...]
Since it’s launch a couple of months ago the mintsouth “Next Big Thing” chart has seen over 500 downloads of free singles and almost 3,000 listens. In recent weeks we have added the likes of Delays, Woven Bird and Tom Ashford to the chart but it is still topped by We Caught The Castle. Unfortunately [...]
It was the mINtSOUTH Christmas Party on 22nd December at the Soul Cellar in Southampton. The city centre venue played host to Kitchen Sink Drama, SomaHigh, Orestia and Kunt and the Gang. However, a very special guest was seen out and about at the party; none other than Santa Claus! It seems he is a [...]
Kunt and The Gang are a band that are certainly not for the easily offended. They’re a band that cause a bit of a split in the mintsouth camp. Some of us think he is crass. Some of us think he is a genius. But the fact is, he has a pretty popular set of [...]
SomaHigh have always been a band to wear their influences on their sleeves. The Southampton quartet began life a few years back with more than just a nod to Muse in their sound. Something About You is a pacy track which emanates No-one Knows era Queens Of The Stone Age. More than technically proficient, it’s [...]