Essex
Live Review: Beans On Toast – Queens Hall Nuneaton 25.02.23
Beans on Toast is back out on the road, fresh off the back of the single of the same name, and latest release “Against The War” The gig was opened by pianist Jaz Delorean who engaged the crowd with his quirky songs and got a sing-a-long going throughout his half hour set. I’d recommend checking …
Track/Video : Scott Lavene releases new song ‘Prettiest Peach’ – wit, wisdom and punchy post punk.
Essex raconteur and troubadour Scott Lavene has been carving out his own niche in tight riffed, story-telling post punk for a while now. A well worn indie band hustler, it wasn’t until 2019 that he hit his stride releasing the sardonic, pathos riddled ‘Broke’ under his own name followed by ‘Milk City Sweetheart’ a year …
Album Review: Anorak Patch release astounding debut EP ‘By Cousin Sam’: Out now via Nice Swan Records
Cementing themselves as one of the UK’s most exciting bands to emerge in recent years, Essex foursome Anorak Patch have just released their first EP, By Cousin Sam. The debut release comes via Nice Swan Records, a label that have worked with some of the UK’s buzziest acts including Sports Team, English Teacher, Silverbacks, Hotel …
Album Review : Twofish release the cinematic and transfixing album ‘At Least A Hundred Fingers’: a dynamic sonic landscape that defies genre.
The album ‘At Least A Hundred Fingers’ by duo Twofish is an epic, cinematic musical journey that ebbs and flows with intensity and dynamism. Difficult to slot into any genre, it has the vibrancy of Dead Can Dance with an infusion of world instrumentation – many synthetic, some organic – and a syncopated thrum throughout …
SEE: Bearcraft – ‘Outside In The Morning Snow’: Modish synthwave burrowing into your dreams
A two-finger synth melody is picked out, melodically precise, in that way Depeche Mode wrought so many classic hooks from as they shifted through Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward, striding out of the pure pop of the Vince Clarke era and heading for the proto-goth sampling of Black Celebration. It’s a pop melody …
Track: Bilk – Give Up
Young Essex three piece Bilk hare about to released their debut single Give Up, produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, The Coral) in Parr Street Studios, Liverpool. Lead singer Sol Abrahams described the track as being about “The idea of not giving up your aim when you’ve got your surroundings and other things going on in …
See: Giants release new video for ‘Break The Cycle’, plus January tour dates
Essex punk rock five piece GIANTS have been building solid support, both in their own manor and further afield in recent times. They’ve supported the likes of H2O, Comeback Kid, The Ghost Inside and have released DIY EP’s and vinyl singles along the way. They’re ow working on a full length album with Neil Kennedy …
New Music: Loose Joints – Quattro Amigos
I really, really, fervently hope that the title is a nod to one of my favourite silly films of all time, the Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short triumph ‘¡Three Amigos!‘. If it isn’t, shame on Loose Joints. They’re not wrong, though. This really is “Quattro Amigos, out of control”. If you like your rock …
Live: The Fruitful Earth – “Rising Sun” album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters
Dalston Kingsland, half-eight on a dreary Thursday night, the capital greasily covered with filthy spring rain. This is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the record we’re here to receive, not at all. Fortunately The Fruitful Earth couldn’t give a flying fuck what it’s like outside. The Servant Jazz Quarters stage is …