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  • 30 days, 30 bands – #17 Mabel Love

    This will be a short one. Not because there isn’t anything interesting to say about Mabel Love‘s short time in this world. No, the reason is because out of respect to Ricey‘s untimely death, I’m omitting a lot of speculation and hearsay. Because I find it hard to get a clear answer in a lot of…

  • Review: Black Cat White Cat – Nine Wild Lovers

    The long road for an album release can sometimes be treacherous. Self-defeating thoughts, the real world, health issues, economic declines, you name it, all factors dragging a release by its heels. It can feel eternal, and two bands I’ve talked about this week fit this path. One was Psychic Twin. The other is Black Cat…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #16 Bromheads

    Tramlines 2009. The first one. The one where the local music bug bit me. Probably because I stepped on it with all my splendorous overweightness (!). I’d just seen La Folie at the Frog & Parrot and dragged myself uphill, back to Endcliffe Village. Statistics about fungus and micas had to be done. I was still thinking about the…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #15 The Unfortunate Incident

    “The Unfortunate Incident!” “Who?” “The Proclaimers with Zac Effron.” “Sorry, I’m lost. Would you happen to have a pouty band instead?” “Who?” indeed. I mean this in a nice way. They had praise from Steve Lamacq. They had a great show at the O2 Academy. They gorged on Krispy Kreme donuts at DQ during Oxjam…

  • Review: Psychic Twin – Strange Diary

    It was 2011 and I was looking at the pitch black darkness of Crookes Road. The blistering wind, howling through the badly insulated window. The old speakers, patched with electrical tape and paperclips, still worked. The song was a weird one, a mantra-like repetition with garbled vocals. It was strangely hypnotic. It was so different to everything…

  • 30 Days, 30 Bands – #14 Hey Sholay

    “And I know it sounds strange // But I don’t know how to change the clocks The clocks // Oh love, I can change…but I don’t know how to change the clocks”- Hey Sholay Between history and the myth, choose the myth. Always. So said Tony Wilson (allegedly) in the lifechanging 24 Hour Party People. This myth goes back to…

  • Video: Camille Mandoki – Fast is real

      For a while, Mexico was a barren wasteland of bands with not a single original thought on their bodies and no drive to push things forward. Thankfully, on or about 2010, the floodgates opened. Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Youtube and Reverbnation were embraced by my fellow Mexicans (not the Mexican’ts) and those who wanted to play…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #13 The Monicans

    It’s a cold day in November. One of the side rooms of The Grapes, back when it still had gigs, but not for long. I think it was a week or so before I got on stage with Repo Men. The bitter cold rages outside while I talk to The Monicans. Heather, Paul and Lee were the longest serving incarnation…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #12 Renegade Brass Band

    12 days in and I think I’ve mentioned this fantastic bunch of ne’er-do-wells at least twice. My usual quip is that they ruined my knees in at least two (2) occasions, but, truth be told, I’d be amazed if they didn’t mess up with anybody else’s knees. You just can’t keep still once they take…

  • 30 Days, 30 Bands – #11 Screaming Maldini

    “I’m bored / And I’m not alone“ Attend the tale of those who lived their lives in glorious stereo Dancing like kookaburras, singing in harmony Their skins, pink and white for a while, the fashionably morose For they wailed, ululated and wowed until the bitter end This is what Screaming Maldini were singing and dancing about. A long…