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A Place To Bury Strangers @...

by DanielForrest on 21 May 2012

I’ll admit; I had awkward reservations about this show. Big Applesauce noise merchants A Place To Bury Strangers are a band I had read and heard...
The Jezabels + Husky –...

by FraserBalaam on 21 May 2012

Australian music has hit something of a fruitful patch of late. From Cloud Control charming 6music listeners to Gotye charming seemingly everyone...
The Big Sleep @ Barfly, London...

by EdwardClibbens on 21 May 2012

Upon arrival at Camden’s Barfly, you instantly realise that this is one of ‘those’ types of gigs. The type where near enough every member of...
I’ll admit; I had awkward reservations about this show. Big Applesauce noise merchants A Place To Bury Strangers are a band I had read and heard many good things about, but never...
Australian music has hit something of a fruitful patch of late. From Cloud Control charming 6music listeners to Gotye charming seemingly everyone else, exports are currently higher...
Upon arrival at Camden’s Barfly, you instantly realise that this is one of ‘those’ types of gigs. The type where near enough every member of the crowd is an ‘industry...

The Big Sleep @ Barfly, London - 16/5/2012

by EdwardClibbens on 21 May 2012

Photos by Sayem Rahman It’s hard to believe that Balkan Beat Box released their debut album seven years ago, so established does their unique form of political dance music...
The Bodega is a great venue for EMA's music; its dark, a bit dingy and pretty compact. It's an intimate venue which makes the more ambient artist shine. It's a venue that's seen...

EMA @ Bodega, Nottingham - 10/5/2012

by DanielGill on 17 May 2012

Before the show, Oliver Ackermann had told me his band likes to push things to the max, to breaking point and beyond, and being able to fix their own kit meant they weren’t...
Words: Slim Lingel / Photos: Talie Eigeland So what to do if your lead singer drops out ill hours before the gig? For emerging Leeds based band Savage Club, the answer on...
Tonight's bands have more than a few things in common. For one thing, they are cut from similar cloth musically. For another, they enjoy drawing their songs out and turning them...

The Horrors + TOY @ Academy, Dublin - 9/5/2012

by GarethOMalley on 15 May 2012

There has been quite the local buzz recently about Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher. The five piece, formed from members of Luva Anna, The Lost Todorovs, and The Law,...
Openers My Goodness, albeit with a pretty crappy band name, have the job of setting the scene for We Are Augustines tonight and they execute it admirably with their raucous...
I remember being given a Cate Le Bon LP to review once, and I never quite got round to it, although I listened to it a lot. She’s on support duty tonight. My thoughts are that...
Model Society sound like Britain. As an intruder from across the pond, this was all the more evident to me. The London natives arrive on stage looking like they’ve just walked...

Model Society @ The Lexington - 28/4/2012

by NicolaByrne on 08 May 2012

Emeli Sandé is having quite a good year, by anyone’s standards. Winning the 2012 BRIT Critic’s Choice award, a number 1 debut album, and now the perfect ending to a sold out...
Until I wandered spontaneously into the Barfly during the Camden Crawl, the name Clement Marfo meant absolutely nothing to me. But the beauty of a festival like the Crawl is that...
For many bands, the default means of creating a wild abstraction of sounds that refuses to conform of genre labels is to generate some obscure noises using a computer or to...

Zun Zun Egui @ The Camden Crawl - 6/5/2012

by AlanAshtonSmith on 07 May 2012

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