Features
Thursday, August 31 2006
V Festival 2006
Michael Lomas braves road-trip ruin in a desperate search for the sun. What he finds are ornery guards, boys with drugs up their bums, and a whole lot of bands.
Thursday, August 31 2006
V Festival 2006
Michael Lomas braves road-trip ruin in a desperate search for the sun. What he finds are ornery guards, boys with drugs up their bums, and a whole lot of bands.
Friday, February 24 2006
Tiny Dancers
While the press spotlight might be on Sheffield for more simian reasons, the often-overlooked city has more than one reason to be proud. And if the magic of budding promise can be maintained, Tiny Dancers just might steal the show.
Reviews
Thursday, July 12 2007
Gogol Bordello: Super Taranta!
Super Taranta! is at heart, a riotous, utterly bonkers, brilliant party album from one of the world's greatest dance bands.
Tuesday, June 12 2007
Plan B: Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
As a social document of a country riddled by inner city despair, Who Needs Actions When You Got Words is a resounding success -- as an album you will listen to again, Plan B falls some way short.
Wednesday, May 2 2007
Patrick Wolf: The Magic Position
A bold, romantic album touched by a rare imagination and an indefinable magic -- pop music at its most deliriously inventive and exciting.
Tuesday, April 10 2007
Grinderman: Grinderman
Much more than a diversionary side project, Grinderman is a foul mouthed, frequently hilarious discharge of utterly essential midlife-crisis rock and roll.
Monday, April 9 2007
Plan B: Time 4 Plan B
His vision of England was one of forgotten, decaying sink estates overrun with crack and smack, teenage violence, underage sex and broken families.
