Category: Reviews
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Single Review: Anorak Patch – Delilah
Every time I check out a new Anorak Patch song it seems like they’ve moved up another level in the music world. Delilah is their first physical release on the rather good indie label Nice Swan and it really feels like the start of a lot of good things for the band. Musically the verses…
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Review: Colchester Fringe Festival 2021
Inspired by the legendary Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, a format that’s often repeated around the world, Colchester Fringe Festival is a new festival of the arts, bringing together theatre, comedy, dance, spoken word and more across multiple venues. Accessibility and promoting under-represented voices is a key part of their program. Originally planned for 2019 the…
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Album Review: Biffy Clyro – The Myth of the Happily Ever After
I’ve been finding myself incredibly excited about Biffy Clyro recently. 2020’s A Celebration of Endings was, in my opinion, the best album they’ve released in a while and their livestream last year was one of the most highly polished streams to come out during the pandemic. That they’ve followed this up so quickly is impressive;…
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Stream Review: The Armed – Ultrapop Live at The Masonic
I wish this review could have been slightly different. The Armed, one of the most fascinating bands around at the moment, were meant to be in the UK/Europe last week and I was incredibly excited to see them playing London’s Moth Club. Unfortunately it was not to be, with travel at the minute a bit…
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FOL, She’s In Parties, Daniel Stephen Turner – Three Wise Monkeys, 25/06/2021
When the government announced nearly a fortnight ago that they’d be extending the June re-opening date to July it looked like fully live music was out the window again. With venues already suffering financially from the last year and a half all of a sudden countless events had to be rescheduled into already busy diaries…
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Review: Jotnarr, Mezzotint, White Noise Winter – Colchester Arts Centre – 18/06/2021
It’s been 469 days since I last watched an actual gig with a crowd and bands playing loudly. It’s been a very long 469 days. Colchester Arts Centre have apparently been making good use of that time, this test event an occasion to try out the fancy new lights and PA system and to ease…
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Review: Fiji Mermaids – Seasick
In many ways this three minute track from Fiji Mermaids (a band consisting of Josh Sandifer and Jack Gordon-Abbott, both of Animal Noise, albeit Jack less so now days) his a krautrock feel to it – it’s not the vocals and the drums are definitely real, but the repeating bass line and the way the…
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Single Review: Ghosts of Men – Hold On ft. Samantics
Usually when I see a “featuring” on the track title I expect them to have a verse part way through but that certainly isn’t the case here – this collaborative track between local two piece Ghosts of Men and West Country spoken word artist Samantics features verses from Samantics and what I think are collaborative…
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Single Reviews – End of May 2020
We haven’t published anything for ages, there has been loads of great music released since then so, while some of thee came out ages ago, we’re going to cover them anyway. James Burrage – Back in The Days A peaceful four minutes of music, Back In The Days starts with just chiming clean guitars before…
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Live Review: Ghosts of Men, Shooty and the Bang Bang, Killatrix – Independent Venue Week – Three Wise Monkeys, 1/2/2020
We’ve lost so many excellent venues across the UK in the last decade or so, mostly because people keep buying new built flats with thin walls and then crying about the sound from already established venues. Independent Venue Week was set up as a celebration of everything great about small, independently ran, venues across the…
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