Reviews
The scene: A small, sweaty, dark subterranean Duke Street, Liverpool bunker. A message over the loudspeaker: Pro-Brexit voters are encouraged to leave the venue. Those remaining invited to use the gender neutral toilets. And off it kicks. Pop, politics, poetry and pazzazz. Enter the utterly likeable dynamic duo, Girli and DJ Kitty. Bree Hart prowls and captures on film every second of this heavenly insanity, cooked...
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A couple of years ago a young band from Stockport was playing to small crowds up and down the country. All my senses told me instantly that they had the potential to break on through to the other side (small time indie side to mainstream side I mean). Well they did have some very Doorsy sounding songs in their armoury in those early days. They...
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I have to say that I must be a very late developer: I’ve only recently discovered Liverpool band, Indigo Moon. Boy, am I making up for lost time. How could I have been so…musically impubescent. Their EP Anatomy currently takes centre stage in my hormonal ears, simultaneously rocking and lulling me out of my Indigo-ignorant coma. Live, they deliver a powerful, blistering set that packs...
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Interview
A shot has rung out. A call to arms. A time for action. Man the barricades. Children of the vinylution unite. Cometh the hour, cometh ye army of vinyl warriors. To fight the assembled digital foes. A bit dramatic? Agreed! But read on… I find myself at Oval Space in East London for the second Flying Vinyl festival. There was no question of coming back...
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A pebbly beach. A cool, jacket-necessitating, Brighton afternoon. A small, intimate circle of photo-muso-arty aficionados. And a photo-guru or two. Enter the first Q&A/masterclass thingummyjiggumy with photo president elect, Charlotte “Vote for” Patmore, able vice president, Poppy Marriott, and Queen of all Queen Bees (Izzy Bee of Black Honey). This is laid back, make-it-up-as-you go-along gold. Spontaneous. Informal. Lounging at the feet of the mistresses...
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Sundara Karma rocked in to Liverpool for their biggest headline show to date, fresh off the back of a highly accomplished debut album: you know, the one with long, yet deep, title: Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect. If that were true then virtually everybody in the sell-out, mainly 14 (12??)-18 year old, O2 Academy crowd must have had a miserable time. When I arrived...
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