• Skint & Demoralised but never abandoned

    Can an artist that flew like Icarus (and fell likewise) recover his faith on the system? Read on. 

  • Summer Camp – Better off without you

    Summer Camp – Better off without you

  • Wot Gorilla? – New Arrival EP

  • My most emotional musical experience

  • Invitation – Acoustic Loveliness at The Rutland Arms

    The lovely pub called The Rutland Arms is becoming the base for the new acoustic night, Acoustic Loveliness.  It all kickstarts this Saturday 17th at 8:30 on the function room of the pub, with Afterdusk, Last To Be Picked and Sheddboatshed. This event will carry on every month, every third Saturday. You can RSVP right here.

  • Interview – Dead Sons

    Dead Sons are a Sheffield based band that have released a couple of dark (almost country noir) songs this year while giving out some great shows (specially their cracking set during Tramlines 2011). We sent them a couple of questions via email and they managed to answer them on their overbook schedule (recording, preparing for…

  • Polaroids fading like memories

  • Interview – Cats:For:Peru

    It’s a very quiet Sunday at the Frog and Parrot. A couple of jokes about Sheffield looking like a deleted scene from 28 days later fall flat and after having the strongest thing next to a coke (a coke with a lemon wedge), we talk. Out of the 5 cats, only Lucy (drums), Keith (bass) and…

  • The true story of a bearded band and their progginess

    TrojanHorse. A band we have talked about several times before. Not only due to the heavy riffage they offer in spades on their prog nouveau music, but also because of their massively expanding rise to overlording the musical soundwaves. As a thank you note, like the Gideons leaving a Bible below your bed, the band…

  • Sad notes from middle America

    The Payroll Union – Your Obedient Servant Stream – ‘General James Wolfe’