Couple of hours free on a Saturday afternoon and large eclectic collection of records, what to play? 1st – Radiohead – Ok Computer You cant go wrong with such an iconic gamechanger of an album, generally an album I begin with and then decide where to go next. 2nd – Fink – Perfect Darkness Always…
The battle against Tik Tok takes another step forward, I would hazard a guess that UMG (Universal Music Group) are tracking all those ‘Ban Tik Tok in the west’ news stories. So far …… Why is UMG taking their music off TikTok? FEB 27 2024 – ‘Universal’s music was licensed to TikTok until earlier this…
New album release date: 05/07/24 FINK, Long-established alt-folk trio, return with Fin Greenall’s eighth studio album under the genre-hopping moniker. Coalescing around the emergent urgency in each of the album’s ten tracks and intimate, closed-door sessions in picturesque Cornwall, the soul-reaching ‘Beauty In Your Wake’ is released on the band’s R’COUP’D label Now resident in…
Released 34 years ago yesterday the 26th March 1990, “Step On” or “Who’s Gonna Step On You Again”, was covered by the Happy Mondays, renaming it “Step On” and helping to define an era! The original version “He’s Gonna Step on You Again” is originally performed by John Kongos, and co-written by Kongos and Christos Demetriou. First…
Good News For People Who Love Bad News This was/is the fourth studio album by Modest Mouse, originally released on the 6th of April back in 2004. To celebrate this, the band is releasing and you can pre-order a 20th Anniversary digital expanded edition of the album. The cover is awesome. Here is the link…
I remember in the video shop there were all these straight to video post-apocalyptic post-Mad Max films such as Ice Pirates, America 3000, Cherry 2000, Warriors of the Wasteland, even the absolute classic Escape from New York. All painted a picture of a lawless society after a worldwide event that pitted every member of society…
Headline act tonight, from there own website described as electro-punk renegades with elements of punk, electronica and heavy pop. Exactly as i’d describe it. Heavy drums guitar and electro alchemy coming from the other side of the stage and beautiful yet powerful voice centre stage. A great live act! I have seen CLT DRP before,…
Another great night at The Joiners in Southampton kicking off with local band Dead Freights in the first support slot. Truth be told, this band is the reason I was there last night. I’ve seen Dead Freights before at a different venue so knew what to expect, I was not disappointed. A great thing about…
No idea what to expect here from the second support of the night. The stage was cleared from the previous support act, a guitar band, a guitarist walked on stage followed by the folding stands and three boards full of from what I could see equalisers? samplers? There was definitely a MacBook front and centre…
“I wanted to build an experience where anybody can be completely themselves, with their friends, their family or completely on their own. BLUDFEST will blur the lines of genre and destroy the limitation of imagination. It will be a festival that cuts the corporate bo****ks and is all about the people. “My plan is to…
