Song: The Killing of Georgie (Part I & II) Artist: Rod Stewart Year: 1976 From Rod Stewart’s seventh album A Night on the Town, ‘The Killing of Georgie’ is a fine example of narrative lyricism and, in the less liberal… Continue Reading
Lund Quartet are a hidden gem in the Avon Gorge, the Bristol four-piece first discovered by tonight’s compère “ethereally floating down the dock on the Matthew.” Criminally under-exposed, their eponymous debut album, released in 2012, introduced an economic yet highly… Continue Reading
For Chicago rock band The Orwells, 2014 was the year in which their star truly began to ascend; January saw an eventful appearance on US talk show ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ where a rowdy performance was embraced by… Continue Reading
Donegal mix master Colpey Calling selects his new Track of the Week, as well as the Best Track You’ve Never Heard. Track of the Week Boxcutter & Defcon – ‘Skylights’ (feat. Kaidi Thatham) (2014) A fantastic crossover track between three Belfast… Continue Reading
Little Dragon love Bristol – in our interview with Erik from the band, he reminisced about the “river or whatever it is going low and muddy at some times”, and Thekla as “a nice, smelly, humid and mouldy little boat… Continue Reading
Song: Marie Provost Artist: Nick Lowe Year: 1978 After reading a copy of Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, a prevaricating gossip rag first published in the USA in 1965, British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe was inspired to pen a commemoration of the… Continue Reading
Sinkane is one of those musicians who produces music which is, from a journalist’s viewpoint at least, frustratingly difficult to define. While many would blandly pigeonhole it as ‘World Music’, that simply will not do. Ohio’s Sinkane, alias Ahmed Gallab, used… Continue Reading
This week, we’re bigging up the weird pop of Jim Noir, who has the ability to splice the sunshine licks of the Beach Boys and the rhythm of early Beatles tracks with a low-fi-ish Mancunian charm and a bowler hat.… Continue Reading