11th February 2017 In May 1993, Head of Creation Records Alan McGhee went in search of an old flame at Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut but instead happened upon a relatively unknown band who were set to define a… Continue Reading
17th January 2017 During a five day, 2,700 mile train voyage between Chicago and Los Angeles embarked upon by Billy Bragg and Joe Henry in March last year, the two friends of over thirty years recorded Shine A Light, an… Continue Reading
19th December 2016 After slow beginnings in the 1980s, it was after a popularity boom in the 90s – courtesy of support slots for Oasis at the height of their powers at both Earls Court and the Britpop equinox of… Continue Reading
10th December 2016 With last year’s Bristol installment of Dot To Dot Festival incredibly boasting nearly 160 live acts across 20 stages in 15 of the city’s best loved music venues, the annual fiesta of live music is set to… Continue Reading
29th November 2016 It’s been twenty or so years since enduring indie pop outfit Teenage Fanclub enjoyed their finest commercial moments in the 1990s. Praise arrived from such nineties rock alumni as Kurt Cobain who called them “the best band… Continue Reading
24th November 2016 Whether inspired by the political malaise of our current times, or more likely just for the sake of pre-show dramaturgy, it’s a soundscape of violins and doomy voiceovers of a dystopian future that intros tonight’s set by… Continue Reading
20th November 2016 On the road once again in promotion of their sixteenth studio album – released last week and boasting the characteristically quirky title Bamboo Diner in the Rain – the Leicestershire trio have seemingly become one of the… Continue Reading
8th October 2016 After Sheldon Renan and Leonard Schrader’s lurid anthology of the United States’ history of violent crime premiered in New York City in 1982, their film subsequently failed to receive a commercial release; thus ‘The Killing of America’… Continue Reading