THE EASTERN SWELL are: LAINIE URQHUART: VOCALS & TAMBOURINE CHRIS REEVE: GUITAR & VOCALS NEIL COLLMAN: BASS & VOCALS ANDY GLOVER: DRUMS & PERCUSSION Some bands appear to arrive fully formed from the off. All their influences, musical stylings and concepts are in place, the flaws ironed out, right through to the final execution […]
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Those Unfortunates
Those Unfortunates are a London four-piece who write songs aiming for the wit and warmth of The Kinks, Television Personalities and Syd Barrett. The Servant/Saturday is their fourth single proper, and their second for Stereogram Recordings. On The Servant, they visit another of their favourite themes – drawing from the Harold Pinter-screenplayed, Joseph Losey-directed film […]
St Christopher Medal
When the Scotpop 4-piece Life With Nixon signed off for good in August of 1998 at Sleazy’s in Glasgow, it seemed like the end of something special. Time had run out on Britpop – too many bands, not enough ideas. Getting less young and less stupid, time had also run out on the Nixon’s own […]
Kes’s Conscience
*Please read in your most sarcastic voice, otherwise this really doesn’t work* It’s all my fault. I’m Kes. (Hi.) I was at university in Brighton, 19 years old, thinking “I’ve written lots of songs – I should play them”, so I got in touch with Bran – who, inexplicably, offered to play bass instead of drums despite being a drummer […]
Gutfull
GUTTFULL’s message to Trump, King of the Arseholes We’re GUTTFULL and we formed at the end of 2016: a bunch of big-mouthed feminist musicians with just so much rage to let out. Our first single is ‘Arsehole’, and it’s dedicated to Donald Trump, King of the Arseholes. With a bigoted, sexist, racist, right-wing meglomanic […]
The Agitator
Are you agitated? You should be… This rabble-rousing act feature 24yr-old Derek Meins on vocals, accompanied by both Robert Dylan Thomas and ‘T-Train’ on thunderous double-drums. Derek’s force-of-nature voice and rallying-call songs are unashamedly political but aim to inspire and energise rather than dictate some dubious ideology. The Agitator’s music is stripped-down, loud and in […]
Pilgrims
A sound born in a storm. This is what happened when a bird fell from the sky and foxes followed us home. This is supernatural, homespun honesty. This is soup, at 4am. This is a map of the stars that trace our fate. This is paprika tea. This is animal instinct. This is our […]
Chess Smith
Chess Smith, a singer-songwriter based in Kent, began her career working with local bands in London and the southeast. Her talent, strong work ethic and infectious personality soon brought her to the attention of international songwriter and producer Ben Copland. Ben mentored Chess, shaping her as the voice of electronica outfit ‘Mooli’ and wrote, produced […]
Husky Tones
Husky Tones’ punk blues style favours the common rawness, simplicity and emotion shared between the punk and blues genres. Live it is delivered by the unique set up of a female drummer singer Victoria Bourne and guitarist Chris Harper. Their approach to music styles mirrors what they love as audience members: inventive, individual and fully […]
The Kara Sea
The Kara Sea was a one-woman band; the woman in question is Glaswegian/Mancunian hybrid multi-instrumentalist and “flâneuse” (according to an early review) Sarah Bradley, who guides violins, guitars, omnichords and assorted found-sounds into songs that have been described as “Cocteau Twins-esque electronica”. After spending her formative years working as co-founder of Valentine Records, DJing, […]