Breaking Glass: Bird

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
Breaking Glass: Liverpool's Bird Nature-themed Bird are a four piece bunch of boys and girls harking from that rich bubbling main-vein of song, the Mersey. Boasting stark guitars and church-hall vocals remin...

Floppy-eared floor filler

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
After dalliances with post-punk-disko-beat  in The Screaming Ballerinas, decadent, lamé-trussed party hosting with  The Dolly Rockers  and more recently the  snappy  glare  of the modelling world, Scandi-Lo...
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Breaking Glass: Telegram

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
  Telegram (l-r) Oli Paget-Moon, Matt Saunders, Matt Wood, Jordan Cook Having just released their debut single, the propulsive call-to-arms, Follow on GramGram Records, London based four-piece Telegram...

Sketches of Home

Benjamin Lovegrove
Culture
The works of Stewart Home are often morally devoid. This isn’t something the author particularly aspires towards, they’re just by-products of the avant filters he applies to his art. He is keen though to dist...

Looking out for Love

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
. This summer saw the release of Drenge’s eponymous debut, a terror-squall of psych-punk blues, created by two scrawny brothers named Loveless; drummer Rory and vocalist Eoin, who delivered bitter, anti-...

Break or Grow Stronger

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
Splinter  (Songs From A Broken Mind) is Gary Numan’s first offering of original songs (barring Dead Son Rising in 2011, a straight-to-fanbase compilation of reduxed demos) since 2006’s Jagged. In the seven ...

Toodle-pip Y’all!

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
Two years after the acclaimed, delicate portraiture of their debut, Lights Out, London-Cali two piece Big Deal, aka Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood have returned with a more robust sound, adding a coupl...

It Can’t Rain All The Time

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
It’s been 18 years since Medicine – America’s retort to My Bloody Valentine, both melodiously and ear-bleedingly – fractured to pursue solo projects. Their opening duet of LPs, especially 1992’s Shot Forth ...

I Sing the Body Electric

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
It throws you that someone of Kim Gordon’s art-rock stature, someone who has redefined the position of “female-guitarist” throughout 30 years of uncompromising cool and squall should come across as vulnerab...

A bohemian apogee

Benjamin Lovegrove
Feature
Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs emphatically wear their fuzz and glam influences upon their ruffled sleeves. Though to critique their stompy sonic platter this way would be pretty obtuse. Yes, début album, Cl...

Resistance is futile!

Benjamin Lovegrove
News
Art rock, post punk, alternative, situationist. These are all terms that have been imposed upon Wire in the past but as abstractions go, they can only go so far in describing their textured and often creepy...

From dust to dust

Benjamin Lovegrove
Culture, Feature
Quentin Tarantino, Hollywood’s perennial über-brat – but lest us forget, high craftsman of the hyperreal – throws up his “slavery epic” Django Unchained with little of his usual charismatic heft. This sadly...

Ayia Napa Reunion 2013!

Benjamin Lovegrove
Feature
In the aberrant words of Maria and the Mirrors’ head soundscaper, Charles Feinstein, this collective’s MO is all “Dancehall queen meets Slovakian sex worker, under the watchful eye of Bryan Ferry”. This dic...

Losing the plot

Benjamin Lovegrove
Culture, Feature
Twenty-seven-year old Ned Beauman lives in Brixton, South London. He was the youngest nominee on this year’s Man Booker Prize Longlist with The Teleportation Accident. Only his second novel, this transatlan...