• Dark Dark Dark – Who Needs Who

    Who Needs Who, the third full length album from Minneapolis chamber-pop outfit Dark Dark Dark is nothing short of a beautiful creation.

  • Blog: My battle to avoid ‘Gangnam Style’

    This latest dance-pop song craze Gangnam Style has just become the most watched video on Youtube, surpassing Justin Bieber’s Baby. Yes, almost a fifth of the world’s population has watched these two awful excuses for ‘music’ which are apparently “forces for change”. I’m proud to say I’m not in that statistic. ‘Gangnam Style’ – sounds…

  • Review: Shearwater @ St. Phillips Church, Salford

    It was one of the nights in Salford Morrissey sang about. Wet, (and heaven knows) miserable and as the Slouchettes made their way to St. Phillps Church, ghosts of The Smiths seemed to loiter on every street corner.

  • Gig: Mordrake, Canyon Family, Coma Girls, Roaming Son

    The Washington, that last Outpost before The Great Sheffield Wilderness, hosted on Thanksgiving day an Americana night with 4 bands, 2 on the velvet and gossamer side of fabric, the other couple on the denim and polyester side. Amidst the constant, Tapper-like flow of drinks, free turkey sandwiches were given and a hard-as-hell quiz was…

  • Gig previews!

    Busy week this one! I’m missing them all ‘cuz I’ve got my hands deep in mucky river sediment (not an euphemism).

  • Marcus Foster – The Last House

    I was first aware of Marcus Foster from a random audio find on YouTube of Robert Pattinson singing a song called ‘I Was Broken’ at an open mic night that had been recorded and hastily put online. Shoddy quality it may have been but, what a song. Some months later I caught the video to…

  • Review: Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers – In the time of the great remembering

    Got a shock with this one. I thought The Boss had made a mistake and sent me his bootleg remix of Fiddler on the Roof.

  • Coffee with Orestes: Skyfall is shit

    Welcome to another troll column. Enjoy.

  • Gig : Dead Sons @ The Bowery

    Whatever the weather was outside The Bowery on that Saturday, the insides of the joint were nearer the hot and humid locals of downtown Tampico than the chilly and humid haunts of Sheffield. 

  • Poem : The Lost Hive

    Dear child of the 7th I suffered your desire My Sweet Lord, have mercy Deliver me from this little tantrum *****