• Review: 65 days of Static – Heavy Sky (EP)

    65daysofstatic – Heavy Sky (EP) The skinny: That little tail behind the comet that was We were exploding anyway. The review proper: Why chop down ‘Tiger girl’?

  • That’ll be the last time we invite you!

    It was a cold, bitter October afternoon (leading to a hypothermia-laden night) and the text message in my shitphone (i.e. any smartphone that doesn’t bear the Mark of The FruitBeast) read: “get yo’self to Budgie and the Toad”. And I sez to meself: Ok.

  • Cancer is the answer

    Cancer is the answer We all know that cancer is the answer. What you may not know is that cancer used to be a horrid disease. That was until Dr Fukkanuts, a German biochemist with a broken mind and an unfortunate name, found otherwise.

  • Liars Beware of the fuzz…

    Liars Beware – The last 24 hours EP. The skinny: A cotton swab to the timpanii. Allegedly. With fuzz. The review proper: Pretty lo-fi and rocking effort from this band comprising members from everywhere else (Smokers Die Younger, Nature Set) and exmembers of somewhere from past yonder (Long Blondes, Navvy).

  • To the beat of the drum machine

    Still Flyin’ – A party in motion The Skinny : Synth overdose. The review proper: Might have to get something out of my chest before starting this review. A party in motion is a bit too 80s for my own tastes. Drum machines, synths and even a sax (‘Victory walker (2 AM)’).

  • Looking back at … The Joy Circuit

    The Joy Circuit There are times when your sanity is put to test because you say you like bands that no one else knows. Are you crazy? Are you making that band up because you feel alone in this world? If you knew who The Joy Circuit was, I can assure you this: you’re not…

  • Unfortunate letters about incidents – 6

      Welcome to our new weekly column with Russ “chords of gold” Palmer. This week, he writes with grave concern to Toblerone… (Editor’s note: this might be the reason behind the name of his band, The Unfortunate Incident)

  • Singles – Hey Sholay!, Toy Horses, Smashing Pumpkins and Humanfly

    It’s Friday (hey, where did the week go, uh?) and we have a veritable selection of songs we’ve listened, either because we like them or because we were bribed with Mars bars. God, I love Mars bars. But I digress… This week brings us: Hey Sholay!, Toy Horses, (the) Smashing Pumpkins and Humanfly. Read on.

  • Lost notes – 2

    Previously, on Lost Notes… Lost Notes – 2. When I was 13, I had an accident. I was in a big school. 3 floors, 12 big classrooms in each high rise floor. We had three playgrounds. One was a grassy soccer field, one was a gravel and tarmac triangle-shaped area with basketball courts and volleyball…

  • Mancunian musical radiation

    I am Kloot @ Leadmill, Sheffield October 6 2010 As previously stated in another review in this very site, it’s hard to detach yourself from the sometimes impossibly high expectations of a band you love and the show you get. Such is the case for I am Kloot, a band that took me into a…