New Music Reviews
Get The Blessing, Rich MixSaturday, 17 October 2015
You would expect a galactically-themed album like Astronautilus to blast off into extra-terrestrial airiness. The fifth album from west-country jazz-rock space cadets Get The Blessing scorched some earth at its launch in Shoreditch last night, yet the battery of horns, bewitching, asymmetric drums and repeating patterns of surging melody felt grounded and earthy. Read more... |
Ride, O2 Academy BrixtonThursday, 15 October 2015
Back when this was the plain old Brixton Academy, before Britpop, before New Labour, before the world wide web had weaved its way into our homes, before the war on terror, before the nebulous notion of ‘content’ had yet to ruin everything and devalue everyone, I saw Ride play a gig here. It was ace. Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Georgie FameSunday, 11 October 2015
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Alan Broadbent & Georgia Mancio Songbook, Watermill, DorkingFriday, 09 October 2015
Fashions in art and music come and go in less time than it takes to read a Buzzfeed list. So there was something uncannily satisfying about star pianist Alan Broadbent’s admission that he’s been working on last night’s collection of entirely new songs for the past 50 years. Read more... |
Sebadoh, Ramsgate Music HallThursday, 08 October 2015
The three-toed sloth moves at a maximum – that’s maximum – of 10 feet per minute. It’s thought to be the slowest animal in the world. While on a train hugging the north Kent coast however, I reckon I could give it a, figurative, run for its money. I’m on my way to a tiny venue in Ramsgate to see understated US rock band Sebadoh, whose album count is in double figures, on a tour that will see them joining Lemonheads in London for a high-profile gig. Well, at least that’s the plan. Read more... |
Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind, Rainbow, BirminghamThursday, 08 October 2015
“It’s good to be back in fucking Birmingham, but come a bit closer and let’s pretend it’s a rock ‘n’ roll gig,” called frontman Jim Jones from the stage of the Rainbow, before bursting into the swampy blues of “Aldecide”. The audience needed no other invitations and pushed towards the stage to drink up the Righteous Mind’s primal groove. Read more... |
Squeeze & John Cooper Clarke, Symphony Hall, BirminghamSunday, 04 October 2015
Considering that they have never been known for their sartorial elegance, Squeeze are looking pretty smart and stylish these days. Band leaders Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook took to the stage in Birmingham looking especially dapper, with Tilbrook looking like he’d just walked off the set of Miami Vice in his pink suit. Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: The CitySunday, 04 October 2015
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The Lemonheads, Institute, BirminghamFriday, 02 October 2015
It has been three years since The Lemonheads, Evan Dando’s slacker kings, last toured the UK and six years since they released Varshons, a covers album. So it was a pleasant surprise when they recently announced a return to these shores to play some shows with no particular product to push, especially given that anyone might imagine that they had since long disappeared. Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Bert JanschSunday, 27 September 2015
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Georgie Fame: The Whole World’s Shaking – The Complete Recordings 1963–1966
The City: Now That Everything’s Been Said
Bert Jansch: It Don't Bother Me, Jack Orion / Bert Jansch & John Renbourn: Bert and JohnPages
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