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The Bandwagon gigs down here at Liverpool's Zanzibar have featured some quality acts – step forward yer Corals, Bandits, Zutons of this world – but on the underbelly, munching merrily 'pon this city’s musical liver, is to be found a brilliantly irreverent and magnificently inclusive gabble of rocke»
Quite a strange ‘un, this, intimate and introspective and entirely in line with Homesleep Records’ propensity for late nite devil-in-disguise softfooted ballcrackin. ’Sharks And Flames’ is a patchy but occasionally quite beautiful double album that marks Philadelphic pie-in-ears Lenola’s fifth»
One for the winter this; and to be honest if open fires are still allowed in these litigate days, that's the ideal place to sit an listen an balloon your consciousness into the ether whilst meltin' away to some darned laidback lassitude groovemongering. And this compilation - courtesy of Italy’s Homesleep record»
Melted Snow is a quite unique organisation. Not quite a record label, not quite an art statement, not quite design delight; but all of the above and more. Having released the quite beautiful, subtlesoul-synth melancholia debut recordings by Saso, as well as a beautifully-designed art book, this is an o»
Fuck me, out all day, Wales making a professional job of a win over Azerbaijan, me making a professional twat of myself with the poor lass serving me drinks, couple of mates up for a few days disappear downtown for 6 hours to look at art galleries, half-cut by 6pm and still 8 hours of lagertime ahead… …so I irone»
Ankst – now morphed into Ankstmusik – has always been an extremely important label that has showcased many bands of super quality alongside some truly original artists. Perhaps the label’s heyday came with the launch of acts such as Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals in the mid»
Oh Christ, I’m here early - even the tumbleweeds are too embarrassed to be seen in this vast desert evening - Liverpool's Barfly living up to its name for once as the few customers are steaming, stoolperched and perving. Thankfully things perk up – a tad – when a Reading-based Macy Grayster by the name of <»
“There’s no musical direction as such; we just want to put out stuff that we like”. So speaks Dave Pichilingi, ebullient manager of brand new Liverpool-based label, Robot! Records. “A lot of people run labels with two eyes on the balance sheet, but we’re in it to release great music. Obviously to »
German five-piece Nannygoat rock in on a wave of frenetic energy that can only be attributed to the long hours spent locked away in dusty studios up in Scouseland for the last ten days. The experienced outfit are currently holed away in the day-into-night-into-day weirdness of recording their second album, and »
Sober Shoo this night; and late; wander into the Stanley Theatre with some bigbigbig Puressence-fan-mates looking to educate my sorry ass and help me try an' realise, as they do, that the Manc foursome are the bread-est thing since Sliced Best… Dullard that I am, I forget to charge me glass before thudding»
“This is what life’s all about” sings Madness frontman and general top geezer Suggs on 'The Sun And The Rain…' and ya can’t argue with the man in the shades and suit here, with the release of one of the best compilations of the last 20 years. You got basically all the Nutty Buggers’ ca»
..so after a quick snifter I finally manage to grab me an excited and breathy spot roughly in the middle of the Stanley Theatre and just outside the pit of conjoined crazyfreakdancers that have come and almost cum all shiny-eyed to worship Mark E. Smith and his latest gurning gang of reprobates. Having gro»
