rescuing musical virtue in distress.
If any other artist opted to re-visit and re-record selections of their back catalogue you might be inclined to think that they might have merely run out of energy and ideas, and were taking the easy option. When someone with such a wild, varied and comprehensive CV as Anton Barbeau heads down such a route... Continue Reading →
Fans of the band ‘New Street Adventure’ will already be familiar with the work of Nick Corbin, he was the singer and songwriter for the band up until 2018, but those of us new to the name will probably find something quite surprising on his debut solo release. After reading the promo sheet that accompanies... Continue Reading →
“I like working alone and also I like collaborating.” Andy Ellis’ seemingly dualistic statement may have been an irreconcilable conundrum in a previous age, but thankfully the technology of the modern world means that he can still weave his magic with the other half of Black Lab, Paul Durham via the long distance file-sharing that... Continue Reading →
It’s the curse of our modern lifestyle. You find the one that you want to spend the rest of your life with but then gradually gravitate towards spending so much time indulging your own passions and pastimes that you neglect the one thing that should be most important in your life. We all need space but... Continue Reading →
One of the advantages of writing songs without the background howl of baying record executives requiring that you deliver the goods, is that you can just relax and do what you do best. Also without the context of those sonic goods having the final destination of making up an album, each song can be looked... Continue Reading →
If Volume 1 of this planned trilogy of albums did the groundwork for an exploration of Chris White's career in music, this middle panel of his musical Triptych features his work from the dissolution of The Zombies, the band that he will always be most closely associated with, in 1976 to the present day. Again,... Continue Reading →
The last time The Swagger passed under the journalistic pen, there was very much a jaunty, Brit-pop groove and modish swagger (pun intended) to their sound, in fact Heart 'n'Soul wore its influences very openly on the sleeves of its Fred Perry. Loaded Gun seems to come from an altogether different place. They have taken the... Continue Reading →
Rap has been around long enough to have become seeped in its own styles and tradition. That’s the downside of being a genre having enough success to enable such longevity, you leave the “no rules” era of the early days behind and generally things fall into accepted sub-genres or at least tip their hats to... Continue Reading →
Britain's The Indoor Mortal Orchestra are the latest in a series of socially conscious artists using their talent to help organisations doing great things in this difficult tim. They've just releesed an impressive cover of Bugsy Malone's classic 'You Give a Little Love'. Following weeks of preparation, the 17-strong virtually-assembled collective of music professionals began the... Continue Reading →