20th August 1995 is for me one of those where were you? moments. I recall driving back from a day at the beach, listening to the UK Top 40, as the winner of the Battle of Britpop was announced. Blur’s ‘Country House’ pipped Oasis’ ‘Roll With It’ to then coveted number one spot. At the […]Read More
Bouncing between being a bawdy baggy icon and a dungaree wearing Britpop star, The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess has transitioned through yet another public persona with his fifth solo album, I Love the New Sky. In an uplifting collection of songs, the bowl-cut boasting artist appears to have regressed to a high-school nerd in a […]Read More
Back in April Sydney’s DMA’S returned with sublime new record ‘For Now’, the follow-up to 2016’s hugely successful debut album ‘Hills End’. Charting at an impressive#13 in the official UK album chart and #2 in the independent album chart, thishas built on the fantastic reputation the band has carved out for themselveseven at such an […]Read More
As irritating as it seemed at the time, a generation were raised on the earworm frivolity of Scouting for Girls. Now ten-years-old, is it time the piano-bashing buffoonery and bittersweet love odes deserved a little reappraisal? Sam Lambeth investigates. Read More
In the 20 years since Urban Hymns became an all-out defining album of the 90s, Richard Ashcroft has lost none of his egotistical swagger. Scrubbing off ‘Mad Richard’ comments, the former Verve frontman freed himself from his six year slumber to release a politically-charged and powerful message in the form of his latest album, ‘These […]Read More
Arriving from a six year wilderness and a decade on from his last solo album, Richard Ashcroft has slowly but surely started to wake up from his slumber, fuelled with new sounds, new lyrics and a whole load of spirit. A powerful message in the form of his new ten track album These People is […]Read More
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the chart battle between Blur’s ‘Country House’ and Oasis’ ‘Roll With It’, a time when Britpop dominated the airwaves and the UK was witnessing a new age in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Britpop was born as a form of rebellion against the heavier, grungier sounds coming from the USA in […]Read More
Room1Fourteen, an alternative rock band working between England and Switzerland, released their debut EP Living In Dreams back in May this year. The EP is a journey infused with a wide range of rock genre influences. The opening and eponymous track ‘Living In Dreams’ throws us into an atmosphere of mystery, entering the melancholic and […]Read More
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