Goodluck Jonathan are a collective of four very different individuals gelled together by a mutual love, and serious appreciation, of music and a less serious though equally passionate love of rum, mocking the percussion section, and annoying the Nigeri …

One of my favourite things about running this website is just sometimes, maybe a handful of times a year, a record lands in my lap that is so good I have to stop what I’m doing, put everything down, and just listen. ‘We’re Important And We Keep The Cit …

So Punk Rock is dead? Well nobody told The No Name Janes this piece of wisdom. This melodic four piece band from Wrexham seem intent on turning back the clock to year zero, or 1977 for all you youngsters out there! Formed in early 2011 from the ashes o …

Photo by Alessio Michelini The Antlers/Little Green Cars – The Academy, Dublin, 17/11/11 Some bands don’t put very much into their live performances. Sometimes, you go to see a band and it’s almost like you should have stayed home and listened to the C …

Here’s an old fashioned question: how do you arrange your record collection? Presuming you still have one, that is. More than likely it’s all on a hard drive, or uploaded to a cloud somewhere, or it exists in a variety of states, some of it digital, so …

Kingston post rockers Killington Fall are one of our favourite live bands around on the circuit at the moment, distressingly young and awesomely powerful, they are a sight to behold. Having just release their second EP, ‘Keep Your Eyes To The Sea’, we …

Strange News from Another Star – Kings College London 7/11/11 If rock and roll history is to be believed, there were only 40 people at the Sex Pistols legendary first gig in Manchester in 1979, but almost all of them went on to form a band. Tonight it’ …

Cheap Jazz are a four piece from the Midlands. Formerly known as FunFun, the band is a composite of former groups Younogodie and Plans and Apologies although it seems that this depth of experience on hand has been consciously reigned back at times, as …

Talk Show Hosts have been floating around our radar for some time. They seamlessly mix grungy riffs with great hooks and shoegazy vocals to come up with a blend that we think could take them far. We sent guitarist / singer Mark Robinson what should be …

It’s hard to get the balance right. This is something that applies to a lot of situations, and one of these is being in a band, particularly one that tries to do a number of different things, or in this case, straddle a number of different genres, all …

2011 has been breakthrough year for Benjamin Francis Leftwich. We sent our intrepid reporter Gareth O’Malley to catch up with him at his recent show in Dublin and pop a few questions about his tumultuous twelve months. So, to start with, this is the la …

In the interests of balance I should probably declare that Andy Falkous, along with Sim Ralph of Fashoda Crisis, is one of my two favourite writers of lyrics currently making music and no one alive spits vitriol quite like him. The two previous Future …

On a recent episode of some action-drama that was keeping me from doing anything mentally worthwhile, there was a moment or two focused on a discussion of Jazz music. The main character quoted Miles Davis, something like ’Don’t play what’s there, play …

Ed Wood Junior are not the unknown love child of the director of the same name however, they are a special thing and man, do they know how to rock. Their unique mixture of rock and electronic beats can make for an odd combination at times but they real …

The Naturals are possibly the most luminous of the current crop of bright young things emerging from the ever fruitful Bristol music scene. We caught up with them to get the skinny on what they are about… 1. How long has the band been together and how …

Music is an ever divided commodity in the modern age of the 99p single. Finding a niche that will develop a core audience is important to musical success, Hymns have chosen one of the oddest market segments possible, Atheism. Samuel Manville is the for …

In ‘You’re An Ocean Deep, My Brother’ Sheffield based Firesuite produced one of our favourite albums of 2011. So, in advance of them coming down to play our Knowledge As Our Weapon night on November 26th, we had a chat with singer / guitarist Chris And …