• Mudcats Blues Trio – The Tesla Recordings

  • Tramlines 2012 – Guest review #3

    Tramlines 2012: Sunday 22nd July We asked people on Twitter and Facebook to send their reviews of Tramlines. About 3 people answered (ok, 4, but that was a spambot). Here’s another review by Simon Roberts. 

  • Tales of the Pill Generation : Egregious

    It’s the mid 60s and even if the kids don’t know it, the wave has reached a watermark and will roll back in a few years. My dad was Mexican. My mom was American. They met through work, married in San Diego and moved to Los Angeles with three kids on tow. I was the…

  • Your weekly video dose

    Hey, here’s some videos to get your week started. It’s a strange menagerie of styles, sounds and looks, but that’s the tip of the iceberg of what’s going on in the heads of the editorial team (a de facto dictatorship…). 

  • Tramlines 2012 : Neon Railroad

    Tramlines Festival, Neon Railroad, the Back Room, the Greystones Pub, Friday July 20th Could this be a first? How often does a mother get to review the band her son plays in?

  • Tramlines 2012 – Guest review #2

    Tramlines Festival 2012: Saturday 21st July Saturday at Tramlines is always the main event and the day you can pack more into (not being at work and all). As the sun finally appeared, I made my way to the band stand in Weston Park to catch The Early Cartographers who, with their expansive line-up and multi-instrumental nature,…

  • Tramlines 2012 – Guest Review #1

    We asked through several outlets (social media, post its, telepathy) for people to send in reviews of their Tramlines experience. Here’s one by Mr. Simon Roberts. Enjoy! 

  • Tramlines 2012 : The Folk Forest

    LOST IN THE WOODS. part 1 Twelve Noon, Saturday and the Sloucher Delegation having had coffee to sharpen the senses joined a small gathering waiting for Black Gold of the Sun. Worried about not having the drummer present, B.G.O.T.S. opened the day with an absolutely sublime set of songs perfect for a sunny day. Looking every…

  • Review: Tramlines 2012 (the whole weekend)

    Tramlines 2012. It was a long experience as somehow I thought I could manage to get as many bands as I could if I did half-sets. I probably shouldn’t plan gig attendances while surrounded by chemicals in the analytical lab. In the spirit of inside jokes (I.e. the quest of the perfect name for a…

  • One fine day at Games Britannia

    “So, where were you?” “In a bus that passed through all the filming locations of Four Lions. It was as weird as that time that I answered a Physics exam with a quote by Tom Baker’s Doctor Who about entropy…”