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  • Paving Stones : August Actually

    Hamster Jelly! No, wait, that’s a different flashback. Was it because of the glass onions I had on my curry? Anyways, August Actually are an indie pop band from Nottingham, which isn’t actually a bad place. I know y’all like bandying the “Shottingham” joke around, but that’s older than Jimmy Saville. But back to August Actually……

  • Interview – Captives on the Carousel

    Captives on the Carousel Captives on the Carousel are a very interesting duo. Take one guitarist (Sarah Morrey) with a very ethereal voice and a cello player (Ben Eckersley) who sometimes ropes out a BOSS pedal and loops to create an army of ghost cellists to help him.  Add to that mix lyrics that feel…

  • The call of the siren

    Caro Snatch – Til you’re no longer blinkered

  • A shout from Scarborough

    Everyone an Army – EP 

  • Wake up to Cobra Fist

    Don’t you hate it when you’re chillaxing and then a stupid shark comes around and steals your girlfriend and you have to fight his minions with uppercuts, elbows-to-the-face and spinning hurricane kicks? And once you defeat it, you have to fight your bro to the death? No, wait, that’s Double Dragon. But might as well…

  • Return of the southern troubadour

    The Ravenna Colt – Slight Spell Stream – ‘Now to begin’

  • Mender – Resonant Tense EP

    Mender – Resonant Tense

  • Musical resonance

    City of Glass – The Diving Bell Stream – ‘Little shadows’

  • Wake up to … The Dream Surman

    Part of a collective of Mexican musicians doing something very off-kilter and experimental, The Dream Surman joins the same box where we could place URSS bajo el árbol and Los Impresionistas. They do share a few members (and possibly all meet in the Astral Planes to exchange chord progressions) but that’s where similarities end. With…

  • Tramlines 2011

    Tramlines 2011.  Every year, the city of Sheffield goes into full party mode and hosts the Tramlines festival, a veritable smogarsbord of musical talents, packed venues and heat stroke incidents (some of them rather unfortunate).