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Live Review: Sam Fender / Goat Girl – Utilita Arena, Newcastle 05.04.2022
By Tom Marshall The stage was set, long queues all the way out Utilita Arena in Newcastle, eagerly waiting for Sam Fender. The opening act, GoatGirl, outlandish support for the Geordie headliner, still enthused the crowd in a way like no other. After the interval, the lights went dim, and the famous black and white …
Live Review: Fatherson / Jake Whiskin – The Cluny, Newcastle 18.05.2022
By Adam Littlemore ‘What amazing night it has turned out so much excitement and atmosphere at the Cluny. Jake Whiskin open up the night with his amazing solo acoustic set with beautiful melodies and emotional raw tones to his voice capturing the crowd. My favourite song he performed was Electric I could really feel the …
Premiere: Liquid Zoo announce ‘I Don’t Want To Be Me’ – a zesty bright masterclass in indie punk filled with swagger and attitude.
We are very pleased to premiere the new single from Newcastle’s bright young indie punksters Liquid Zoo which is out for general release on Friday, 29 April 2022. Skating over a liquid ambulant bass, the track is classic rumbustious bop filled with an acerbic edge and fairground organ spritz. It’s pogoing punky pop brilliance with …
Live Review – The Professionals + Desperate Measures. Newcastle Cluny, 19.10.21.
Two bands with members that, in one combo or another, have been stalwarts of the punk scene for 40+ years pretty much guarantees that tonight’s gig was going to be one of full on rock n roll packed with plenty of well recognised songs. Vocalist Eugene Butcher formed the short-lived Desperate Measures in his native …
TRACK: Milky Wimpshake’s tweepunk starburst ‘You Make A Nice Piece Of Art’ leads for October LP
IF YOU like your indiepop punky and proud, erudite and bearing a manifesto – yeah, like it used to – then Newcastle’s Milky Wimpshake should so be on your shopping list. The thrashy twee punk project of Pete Dale that has been releasing lofi sherbet grenades of purest bouncealong thrashpop for a quarter-century now – …
TRACK: Martha Hill’s ‘Grilled Cheese’ is proud, anthemic indie
NEWCASTLE guitar-toter Martha Hill has been around on the SoundCloud/Bandcamp scene for a couple of years now, steadily, writing, recording and releasing a clutch of songs for download. She left her rural home north of the border in her teens, travelled, and later settled by the Tyne to make music. She says that she “writes …
EP REVIEW: Trunky Juno – ‘Too Many Teeth’
TRUNKY JUNO has been called ‘lo-fi’ in an attempt to slot him nicely into an ever more complicated musical map. And while some of the trademarks of that sub- (micro- ?) genre are definitely there, I would – to groans, necessarily – propose herewith that actually our dear Mr. Juno be referred to as ‘wide-fi’. …
Track: John Dole – Collective Thoughts
Mixing up hip-hop and smooth R&B beats, John Dole is becoming a real player in the North East hip-hop scene and beyond. The Newcastle MC describes his sound as ‘alternative rap’, and there’s certainly a sense of that in his new single ‘Collective Thoughts’. Wonky synths and and warm R&B descending lines open the show …
Album Review: Warm Digits – Flight of Ideas
Warm Digits, aka Newcastle multi-instrumentalist/producers Warm Digits have released a album that neatly squares their own adventures in synth-rock/house/psychedelic music with a host of collaborations including The Orielles, Paul Smith, The Lovely Eggs, Rozi Plain and Emma Pollock. Titled, appropriately enough, Flight of Ideas, it’s sees the band and their co-pilots blast of into this …
See: Warm Digits reveal new video for Better Friction, plus live dates
Warm Digits, aka Newcastle electronica duo Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis, have revealed the new video for Better Friction, taken from their recently released third album Wireless world, which dropped through the ever brilliant Memphis Industries. Of the track, Jefferis says “Better Friction” argues that no form of power or technology is without its own mythology. …