Not Squares seem like regular kinda guys. The sort of guys you might expect to find in a regular Belfast pub. They don’t look like posers. They’re the sort of guys who’ll just pop their hoods up and get on with business. Which is just fine, because then you can - like the people in [...]
Hello. I’m back from my self-imposed exile from blogging. My paternity leave ended this week, so now my life has become a whole lot easier, hence my return to here. It’s been a funny old three weeks, but I’ll not bore you with all the baby stuff. Suffice to say that I’ve been spending a [...]
Romance Is Boring by Los Campesinos! from Los Campesinos! on Vimeo.
There’s something about Los Campesinos! that doesn’t quite agree with me. I mean, I loved You! Me! Dancing! as much as the next literate lovelorn indie fan, but the three albums that followed have left me a little cold. That includes their new one Romance [...]
He’s back! Awesome bearded one-man band and king of the offbeat tweets, Stairs to Korea returns with another single on the all conquering Brainlove records. All of Your Friends was the highlight of the set when I saw him recently, and is another in the gradual drip-feed of fine pieces of lo-fi electronics and ace [...]
These New Puritans return, all tooled up and ready to settle old scores.
Last Wednesday, there was another quality lunchtime gig as part of Pure Groove’s week-long ale festival. This one’s certainly worth a mention becauce (1) Stairs to Korea is long overdue an appearance on this blog and (2) he’s great.
Lunchtime drinkers, eaters and loafers were treated to a one-man battery of effects, good tunes, wry lyrics [...]
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago from KMS on Vimeo.
An arty trailer for a new album maybe sounds a bit pretentious, but when the band is as awesome as Shearwater, we’ll let them off with anything. If the new album The Golden Archipelago is even a fraction as good as their gig at the Union Chapel [...]
Here’s another video of Lulu and the Lampshades playing You’re Gonna Miss Me aka Cups, for no other reason than this band make me very happy. Watch the rest of their ace bandstand busk here.
They’ve done four excellent festivals. They’ve got a record label. And now they’ve got a film division. At least that’s what it looks like, since Simon Taffe, one of the organisers of big Growl favourite End of the Road Festival, is one of the people behind this lovely stop-motion animated video for The Low Anthem’s [...]
The latest Bandstand Busking session sees David Thomas Broughton as he’s rarely seen. Restrained by a fixed mic, and no amplification meaning no crazy looping antics. So he plays his songs straight, showing off their fragile loveliness, until in true form, he starts messing about at the end. Ah, that’s why we love him. Hey, [...]
