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Apollo Junction – In Your Arms [Video Exclusive]

07/06/2019 Trebuchet Magazine

Dark pop with nods to New Order and Kurt Weill – Apollo Junction In Your Arms (read more)

There Is A Fairy Light That Never Goes Out

11/04/2019 Carl Byron Batson

The obvious musical comparisons are The Smiths and Morrissey’s early solo stuff, an influence which also makes itself known in their video imagery of canal walks, tower blocks and seaside towns on the decline. (read more)

Desperately Seeking The Miraculous

24/03/2019 Carl Byron Batson

Clad in black, with a grave yard bottle of Cherry B. Eyeliner tears streaked our faces as we listened to ‘What Difference Does It Make’. Do you remember? Desperate Journalist takes us back there. (read more)

All The Songs Don’t Sound The Same – The Wedding Present @ O2 Islington

26/12/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

As Tommy hits 30, The Wedding Present keep in touch with their friends (read more)

Video Exclusive – Drool

23/11/2018 Trebuchet Magazine

With pronounced Pixies overtones Fun by Drool (Trebuchet video exclusive) is a bit of dark pop that marches on it’s lock step groove. Simple, sleazy, and catchy verses leading into a neo-grunge chorus with a strong melodic arrangement. What’s not to like. (read more)

Sexy As Folk – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018

07/08/2018 Carl Byron Batson

With headliners First Aid Kit and Patti Smith, Cambridge Folk Festival has become far more than a meeting of beardy real ale connoisseurs with pewter tankards and mandolins. (read more)

Only The Support: How To Steal The Show

28/05/2018 Carl Byron Batson

Bristol Indie-Rockers Coasts made for a stellar night with their headline appearance at Kentish Town’s O2 Forum… But how did openers Only The Poets fare in navigating the crowd? (read more)

If we don’t choose the path we walk, who wrote this music?

19/03/2018 Sting Andrews

Burgeoning Emo influenced Alt-Rockers Selfish Things pump a little Canadian sheen into a dreck-spattered scene. (read more)

(Other People’s) Hooks in the Millions (Olsson)

12/05/2017 Kailas

Destined to be discarded, Olsson pushes the right buttons with Millions. Just not hard enough. (read more)

Loitered Lens: Fatherson

13/11/2016 Carl Byron Batson

Turning sad faces into happy clappers – Fatherson pep up the Forum (read more)

Loitered Lens: Augustines

30/10/2016 Carl Byron Batson

Photos from Augustines last ever London gig at the Kentish Town Forum, October 2016 (read more)

We Are Augustines for Another Few Weeks (Augustines at the Forum)

25/10/2016 Emily Spankhurst

t was some time during 2011 when I first experienced Augustines. A brief affair; I was alone, miles from home and looking for a friendly face. In the buzzing electric night we connected, it was (read more)

Mature, Complex, with a Lasting Finish. NOS Primavera Sound, Porto

21/07/2016 Kailas

NOS Primavera Sound leaves a lasting impression on Trebuchet’s man in Portugal (read more)

Loitered Lens: PJ Harvey

13/07/2016 Kailas

Photos of PJ Harvey live at NOS Primavera Sound, Porto (read more)

Loitered Lens: Eagulls

29/05/2016 Carl Byron Batson

Photos of Eagulls at Islington Assembly Hall, May 2016 (read more)

Loitered Lens: Phobophobes

08/05/2016 Trebuchet Magazine

Live photos of Phobophobes at The Garage 2016. Supporting the Fall (read more)

Loitered Lens: Jesus and Mary Chain (Forum, 2016)

27/03/2016 Nick Henderson

Photos of the Jesus and Mary Chain live at Kentish Town Forum, March 11 2016 (read more)

Quirky but Complex, George Cosby Nails the Perfect Support-Act Takeover

27/02/2016 Carl Byron Batson

A little bit Buckley, a whole lot himself, George Cosby lights up the Kentish Town Forum (read more)

Loitered Lens: Skunk Anansie

21/02/2016 Carl Byron Batson

Photos of Skunk Anansie’s commanding return to form at the Forum (read more)

Loitered Lens: The Crookes

18/12/2015 Carl Byron Batson

Eyebleed and perspex. Photos of The Crookes at The Forum, Kentish Town. (read more)

The Fratellis, Electric Ballroom, Camden. 17th November 2015

Loitered Lens: The Fratellis

02/12/2015 Carl Byron Batson

Neither November rain nor news events stopped The Fratellis rocking the Electric Ballroom. Photos (read more)

Reeves Gabrels, the Horn, by Carl Batson

Don’t Get Your Cock Out. Good Gig Etiquette (Reeves Gabrels)

20/10/2015 Clement Holterman

Suspiciously sticky floors and fingers at The Horn, St Albans (read more)

Loitered Lens: Misterwives

26/07/2015 Carl Byron Batson

Pinned between the pre pubescent girls, horny dads and the PA system, Carl Byron Batson frames Misterwives at Islington O2 (read more)

Loitered Lens : Beasts [Beasts]

24/05/2015 Carl Byron Batson

Beasts soften the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom with catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals. (read more)

Atmospherics and Optigans, Soundscapes and Steinways [Jacco Gardner]

05/05/2015 Tim Hall

From swirling layered atmospherics to stripped-down minimalism and back again, it all hangs together well as a coherent whole (read more)

Officer?! There’s mashed potato on the Pentonville Road! [The Lovely Eggs]

06/04/2015 Skinnycandy

here are six people who probably tune in to my witterings, four of whom have probably already abandoned ship half way through this sentence, which leaves just my editors. Yet, hang on a minute, there (read more)

FFS! (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks)

10/03/2015 Trebuchet Magazine

ranz Ferdinand and Sparks. Together, Not just sharing a bill, but as a bona-fide Los Angeles/Lanarkshire supergroup! The mind boggles. Will they need interpreters? Who will have the longest shoes? A union of unique musical (read more)