Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026
Documenting the madness
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Here’s a bizarre story to kick things off. I was passed the Human and Kind EP last Thursday and I commented on how brilliant I thought it was. On Friday I unexpectedly bump into them at a house party - at their house. Life. In fact, I think it beautifully sums up a comment that w
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Your head immediately spins from the whirring noise, but if you stick around for long enough, the sting of perhaps the most beautiful yet terrifying bass note knocks you straight. If it weren’t for the vocals, you’d have thought you’d just walked into your local drug lord's front
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The last time I saw Palace perform was in The Harley in Sheffield, where the back of the room doubles as a restaurant and there are hotel rooms upstairs, so to see them at the O2 Academy Brixton where Prince Charming once nearly slew Shrek is a huge testament to their talents. As
Reviews, Nightlife
Gimme Gimme Gimme has become somewhat of a battle cry to the twenty-somethings of London. And so it is at Electric Brixton where several hundred of them form a disorderly queue halfway to the tube station. You have to be physically prepared for any event that starts at 10pm. The
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Emerging from my toilet, I followed the mellifluous sound towards the stage, like a Looney Tunes character floating after the vapours from a hot pie.
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Willie J Healey is the ideal size. I don’t mean height-wise (although he appears to be roughly my height, which is of course the perfect height anyone can be). Willie J Healey has made it to one of the most exciting levels of fame as an artist: he’s selling out shows, he has a lo
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The Vaccines share the same fate as us. Forever doomed to the pits of Google search rankings for the floods of Covid articles on vaccines and no taste. Even the man on the door laughed, “No Taste, like the Covid symptom?” to which we triumphantly replied, “Yes. And we’re here t
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Comparing young Dylan John Thomas to The View sounds like a cheap cop out, but there are similarities beyond the accent. His new single Feel the Fire is overflowing with that bouncy energy that battles its way into the songs of emerging Scottish artists. Although I’ve not had th
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You’ve experienced it before. The minute you leave a show you text your pals “mate, they were incredible”. Where you’re absolutely certain that every other person in that venue with you had a blast. Jungle at the O2 Academy in Brixton was exactly this. Now look. Before I begin, I
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So, I’ve been sitting on Jungle's new album, Loving In Stereo, and it’s out tomorrow right now. Not because I’m a lazy bastard who’s been procrastinating until the night before, as much as it may look like it, but because it’s been difficult to pinpoint certain aspects of it. I’l
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I know it's difficult to keep up with our new music recommendations, but here's a nice one for you. Confess. Confess was penned by Pilar Matji Cabello and Robbie Carman ( nudista ) just before the pandemic escalated, but has rung just as true throughout it. The song’s about comin
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I don’t like the taste of the water in the city . A line I can strongly relate to. I was once absolutely hammered on a London bus ranting to my ex girlfriend about how the water is genuinely killing me, to which a man shouted at me as he jumped off at his stop, “fuck off back up
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With ‘Nature Always Wins’, Maxïmo Park are among the first British bands to release an album recorded during the chaos of all that was 2020.
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Here, I’ve a cool new band for you. They’ve got a new single out called deepfake. Deepfakes. When the viral video created by Jordan Peele of Obama surfaced in 2018, fear cloaked the internet of the potential political implications. Now, in 2020, it’s come to light that 96% of de
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HelloOoOoOoOoOo I come to you on Halloween with an article that everyone needs this time of year, or in my case all year round to my pals annoyance, with a remixes’ walkthrough of the ultimate Halloween theme tune, the Addams Family (Gasp!). That’s right, I’m bringing you the ess
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A Hero's Death is the second release from post-punk five piece Fontaines DC. Here's what we made of the new album, a mere 3 months late.
Reviews, Blog
As I sit down to bring you this article on whether cover songs are great or tragic, I’ve asked Spotify to play me a playlist of ‘Rock Covers’ to inspire me to bring you this piece. Within 3 seconds of this request, my ears have been violated with what can only be described as an
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It’s rare that I come across a track like this. After such a lull in music, attitude and general fucking life, it’s thrilling to be reminded by the sloppy kiss of a spacey guitar that not everything is uninspired at the moment. This track alone has served an expected fist beneath
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It kicks off frighteningly similar to Franz Ferdinand. Did I consider switching it off? Nearly. Am I glad I didn’t? Absolutely. There are no half-arsed, smug vocals in here, just a delightfully refreshing record that hones in on any lazy, unimaginative thoughts of yours and boots
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Here: a lovely new review. Don't say we never treat you.
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“Karaoke?” you ask. And with a gale-like sigh, my head facing the ground and hands parked on my thighs, I respond “yeah, go on then”. What do we fear most about karaoke? The performance? The prophecy of how wrecked you’ll be in 4 hours time? The crowd you’re going to encounter in
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Now then! After a ridiculous amount of celebrating Leeds United's promotion back to the big time (well aware this isn’t popular among anybody outside of Leeds) and a trip away to Newquay with the No Taste gang, I’m just about physically and mentally recovered enough to bring you
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I don’t know what happens. Every time I sit down to write a review of an album with happy guitars in, all I can think of is summer. Does that make me underqualified and shit? Absolutely, but here, you listen to the tories soo… Anyway, let’s get the reason you came, Willie J Heale
