Named after a short novel by Angela Carter, their even shorter lifespan has seen Wolf Alice grow into a dynamic live band as well as songwriters with a vision creating songs that sound simple but aren’t so easy to write. Catchy riffs and odd little turnarounds, an inventive guitarist in Joff Oddie, punchy drums and bass from Theo Ellis […]
My last day in Poland before flying to Italy tomorrow, I caught the train from the three cities, Gdynia, Sopot and Gdansk and after visiting what was once the free city of Danzig and sitting on that Sopot beach with the local legends before finally catching the train to Warsaw from Gydnia station – I […]
Opening the wings of a dove, crying through the roses, slipping up into the high art of Patti Smith – the audience melt at her presence. She is an altar, pay tribute to the visions and the beauty, the strength and the inspiration. She spits, penetrates the heart, weaves dreams, cuts your throat, drags you […]
In a time when for some, the message on your mobile arranging a meeting is more interesting than the actual person that you have arranged to meet, one wonders how you can grip the attention of a distracted crowd with quiet music if you are A) not a talented genius or B) a talented genius that no […]
Sometimes a new artist comes along that sounds like they have walked the troubled roads of life for an eternity. It’s as if New Zealand’s Aldous Harding has wandered the ancient pathways of history collecting stories of woe and emotional heartbreak, saving up a hundred years of experience, passing on her own history to her […]
Radiohead release a new 7-inch single on May 16th – Burn The Witch with its Camberwick Green/Trumpton/Chigley, Wicker Man themed video auspiciously timed with the release of The Fair Isles’ Willow’s Song. The B-side is their rejected submission for the Bond theme from the film, Spectre. So as a reference point for the video, I have […]