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The Heather Findlay Band: Songs from the Old Kitchen

04/09/2012

It's a very different sound from their dynamic electric live shows, but great as Heather Findlay can be in full rock mode, the acoustic sound is a very good match for the natural warmth of her voice....

Loitered Lens: Public Image Limited

02/09/2012

Bowie may have snubbed the closing ceremony, Fatboy Slim may have been caught miming by the second loop of the supposedly live soundtrack, and the faint strains of the Sex Pistols may well have been...

Newrising: The Half Moon, Putney

30/08/2012

Now call me old-fashioned but I do believe that some musical styles should not be combined. Reggae, funk and folk are all great genres of music, but like tequila, bourbon and cherry cola, some...

Loitered Lens: Drunken Balordi [Photos]

26/08/2012

'The night started with what appeared to be an Irish folk band taking the stage – Drunken Balordi comprised a singer/acoustic guitarist wearing an Irish pub t-shirt, bass guitarist, violinist,...

Feed the Rhino: Hevy Fest

24/08/2012

In an age where (a little sadly) aesthetics are as important to the hardcore scene as musical ability, Feed The Rhino cover all of the bases – as one hipster said to another, “we’ve gotta catch...

The Mercy House: Interview

23/08/2012

The genre obsessions have to stop, I guess something is going right when everyone becomes the great ‘opinionizer’, but I think that’s what can be exciting about music, take something out of the...

Devil Sold His Soul [Live]

21/08/2012

Then, coming to the end of a great set, disaster strikes. “This is our last song”, announces Ed. We’re treated to the opening guitar line of what I suspect was ‘Darkness Prevails’, before...

Loitered Lens: Jurojin

20/08/2012

'Although during the first few songs, they came across as your standard four-piece doomy metal band with powerful vocals and formulaic song structures, when their turbaned tabla drums player joined...

Blur, New Order [Live]

18/08/2012

New Order. Their set is fuelled by absence’s tension from the outset but Bernard Sumner is making light of this. After the group are introduced he quips “apparently we’re New Order, we’ll do...

Swans: The Seer

17/08/2012

The Seer may well be a grower and may accumulate more power with time, but I find it striking that after listening to it the Swans songs I hear in my head are mostly those from much earlier. Time...

HEVY Festival

16/08/2012

When your guitar feedback section is so long that your guitarist has time to have a crafty check of his iPhone, maybe it's time to just get on with the song already. HEVY Festival is HUGE. This...

Matmos: Meltdown 2012

15/08/2012

Rather than understanding Matmos as a quirky part of the nineties electronica wave, maybe we should actually be interpreting them as a continuation of a much older tradition of musical comedy, albeit...

Viza: Interview

15/08/2012

So do they think that music can change the world? Chris told me, “I think it could. I think it allows people, it gives people an outlet. It gives people I guess the right to think freely or...

The Social Club: Mini Interview

14/08/2012

We choose to play happier stuff! You have to hold back your money shot and focus on strong songwriting. At first listen the songs sound simple but they’re much deeper than that – Lew...

30 shades of WOMAD

14/08/2012

Despite the 'small is beautiful' ethical basis of the festival where buying a branded plastic bottle contributes to a distant solution, offering an option to feel good without getting personally...

Loitered Lens: The Members

12/08/2012

The Members are: JC Carroll, Chris Payne and Rat Scabies...

Hawk Eyes: Mini Interview

11/08/2012

We’ve never really tried to craft an image, just evolve organically – differently from ‘desperate’ bands. Modern Bodies was wall-to-wall get fucked, whereas Ideas is a progression from that. ...

Queer British Paganism: Meltdown 2012

11/08/2012

Opening with Derek Jarman's Journey to Avebury the scene was gently set. A super 8 movie. Almost a travel document. A visual diary, a diary which continued throughout the night, for this wasn't a...

Rival Sons: Interview

09/08/2012

What we do together is pretty fun but you need a producer who’s decisive, especially with us, because we ARE 'Rival Sons'. We are like; he’s seeing it this way, I’m seeing that way, Scott is...

Arrows Of Love + Bank Of Joy

08/08/2012

Even in the venue itself, there's the swimming event taking place on the big screen. Thankfully for at least an hour, all attention was briefly shifted for some live music. Because of the club...

Loitered Lens: Americana International

22/07/2012

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the...

Loitered Lens: Roddy Radiation

15/07/2012

'Roddy Radiation may have played guitar in The Specials, but when you’re watching his band, the Skabilly Rebels, do Specials songs without Terry Hall, it feels more like watching a wedding covers...

Loitered Lens: 999

08/07/2012

‘999 played the type of set you’d expect from fat middle aged old school punks with slightly squealy guitars. All well and good but you felt that they should be in a spit and sawdust pub in...

Loitered Lens: Screamin’ Sugar Skulls

27/06/2012

‘a nightmarish peek into a world our parents warned us about if we were caught masturbating, didn’t finish our homework, eat our greens or say our prayers at bedtime’. So says Col. Jon,...

Loitered Lens: The Damned

17/06/2012

Founding members of The Damned, Brian James & Rat Scabies, performed the classic first Damned album Damned Damned Damned in its entirety...

The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls [Live]

14/06/2012

It is with sadness that I must report the departure of The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls. A band I had the pleasure of bearing witness to just this April 2012. The band decided it is the right time...

Loitered Lens: The Indegenerates [photos]

10/06/2012

'they worked so well together it was hard to believe they had barely reached puberty. Sweat and sebum, hormones and hairgel – it never gets old. If you like great new fresh rock and roll...