Latest Reviews

13-08-2010 Demos – Issue 27

I’m tired, I’m confused, I’m dirty and I’m hungry, and five yards away my girlfriend is trying to sleep… Guess I better review these demos, then.


13-08-2010 Tom DiCillo, When You’re Strange

What can be said about the Doors’ back story that hasn’t already been covered? The truth, for a start.


28-07-2010 Wavves – King of the Beach

There could hardly be a more apt sounding death knell for lo-fi indie garage than Nathan Williams’ infantile pop farts. Both the genre and Wavves itself have been due a backlash for some time now.


27-07-2010 M.I.A. – /\/\ /\ Y /\

In another universe, parallel to ours but not too distant, Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam is the pivotal character in Pulp’s ‘Common People’.


27-07-2010 Sleigh Bells – Treats

Everyone seems to hear something different in the kind of piercing racket that only the pairing of a former hardcore guitarist and an ex-girl group singer could produce


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Reviews

Butthole Surfers / Kentish Town Forum, London

Surfers still capable of tearing of you a new one

Dan Sartain / The Luminaire, London

Cult status certain for rockabilly Dan Sartain

Bon Jovi / Twickenham Stadium, Surrey

Bon Jovi living on a hair extension

Wild Beasts / 100 Club, London

Wild Beasts hit London’s roar nerve

Nina Nastasia / The Roundhouse, London

Mind games for Nina Nastasia at Roundhouse

Be Your Own Pet / Dingwall’s, London

Final night of animal magic for Be Your Own Pet

Green Man Festival / Glanusk Park, Powys

Green Man Festival was a giant jolly