• Singles review – Week of June 6

    Lumiere – Almadoble Brand new singles by this Mexican band, finding them on that deadly, uncharted ground of pop with strange existential lyrics about doppelgangers and the identity of the man on the other side of the mirror of your soul. It’s a tad short to really grow full wings and soar into something more,…

  • Rhyme, reason and the new wave of iphone poetry

    Captives on the Carousel album launch @ Riverside Café pub. With musical guests Andy Doxfield, Gina Walters, Carl Woodford and The Mother Folkers. Poetry by Sarah Thomasin, Mark James and Ollie Francis. It was a lovely, sunny Sunday afternoon at Riverside Cafe, where the atmosphere felt like a big family reunion. The sort of reunion…

  • Splash Panel Adventures

    I read comics… I read comics. I am a geek. I like sci-fi and I like superheroes. Tell me something has big robots in and I’m sold, tell me it’s got big robots beating ten shades of the preverbal out of something fantastical and not only am I sold, I’ll also buy things related to…

  • A hoedown for the people II – Electric Hayaloo

    On the Payroll – Hoedown for the people. Featuring Odd Todd, Kentucky Cow Tippers and Pete David & The Payroll Union. “Apparently some millionaires who live in England are having a kickabout with some millionaires from Spain. I’m on the edge of my seat… about to turn the telly off cos I fucking hate football”-…

  • Paving Stones – Trojan Horse

  • Interview – Shipping News

    Shipping News are a band from Louisville, Kentucky. Their sound is equal parts post rock, punk and hardcore elements. Last year, they released a monster of an album called One less heartless to fear (shameless plug – review) and we loved it quite a bit. Since we (Tonan & Sam) are unabashed fans of the…

  • In defence of: Doctor Who and the Savages

    Editors’ preamble (ramble): During the 1970s, the BBC, under the order of Pamela Nash, followed a policy of wiping and decommission of a lot of their archives (due to various reasons). Amongst the several tapes to meet a nasty end there were several episodes of Dr. Who. There are surviving photographs as John Cura, a…

  • Agony Aunt Sock – 11

    Jonny’ll fix it … or he’ll fix you is Sloucher’s own “Agony Aunt” section. These are true cases, but the identities of those involved were changed to protect them. Feel free to send your troubles our way. This week, one concerned member of a certain tv show writes with utmost fear about how his show…

  • The loudest hush

    A dancing beggar – Follow the dark as if it were light

  • Review: Braids – Native Speaker

    Stream – ‘Plath heart’