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Guitars and fireworks, it is exposions in the sky!
Their songs build up and up and then die down. It is pure magic. So beautiful, loud and often breathtaking that it should be the soundtrack to your first ever firework display.
Eight reasons why you should never visit Greece
I am writing to you from a pleasant café by the sea. It would be even more pleasant if one could get a nice cup of proper english tea. All you can get here is tea with fruit in and herbal tea. So I am sitting here drinking frothy coffee, writing to you
Race for the prize
Many people find the attraction of football very tricky to grasp. It is just 22 grown men kicking a ball around for an hour & a half and running around.
The best thing to come out of Nottingham since Robin Hood: it is the Chemistry Experiment!
The band has managed to win me over from a boy who had never heard of them, to a boy who asks them if he can be in their band. Anyway, here is an interview with the lead singer Steven Kirk.
Another Chemistry Experiment Interview
I (Lee) was found trying to convince the internet world that the Bluetones are great and, after the initial period of ridicule, was invited on board...
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Even though when I was a youngster I watched a lot of kids cartoons and things, all saying that Santa was great and the nice guy we all know and love, for some reason I did not buy it. And every year, even though I knew I would receive gifts, I used to th
It's true that we love one another, I love Jack White like a little brother:The White Stripes Live at the Brixton Academy
The band apparently never use setlists. They just play whatever they feel like playing and this worked wonderfully well at the gig.
Live review #2: The 22-20s at the Brighton Concorde
If the 22-20's don't make it huge in 2005 then I will eat my hat. English bands right now are surfing on the crest of a wave and the 22-20's are the dark black storm clouds ready to rain on the parade.
Reviews:
(x) is greater than (y) - Review of Negative Snow - Cd Lp
At school I've always thought that algebra was a very pointless subject and never paid it much attention, but bands as good as (x) is greater than (y) make it sound okay.
Agent Blue - Snowhill - Cd single
Proof that not only do Agent Blue look rock and roll and sound rock and roll but they are rock and roll too!
Dayglo Superstars - Review of Action Hero - split 7" (B Side)
It's yet another heavenly slice of 2 minute pop which, of course, sounds great on vinyl and should only be enjoyed on vinyl.
Dressy Bessy - A review of Little Music (CD LP / vinyl LP)
You could easily dismiss Dressy Bessy as throwaway bubblegum pop- nice but losing its flavour after a while- but in this critics honest opinion, you would be totally wrong to do so.
Explosions in the sky - Guitars and fireworks, it is explosions in the sky!
'oh great another chin stroking post rock band', and you may have a fair point, but there's so much, much, more to 'Explosions in the Sky'.
Frozen Fracture - The Thermal Sink [Mk II] - EP-CDr
The guitars are complex and beautiful and like a snow storm - although they seem heavy at first, after a while they seem to fade into the background and drift away into the winter.
Further - Review of Punkrockvampires - Cd Lp
To me, this make them even more Sonic Youth like.
Le Neon - Luss - Cd Mini Album
At first listen, they sound mighty chaotic, as if it's all going to fall apart any moment, but this adds to the bands charm as they manage to hold it together.
Mr Airplane Man - Review of Peel Session
Okay so I know MAM don't sound all that fantastic, they don't exactly sound new and fresh, but to my young ears they sound great nonetheless.
Pastel Vespa - Review of L' Anarchie - Cd Lp
This is what Pastel Vespa are - cabaret but fantastic.
Persil Zea - I'm Jill's smirking revenge - split 7" (A Side)
Replete with catchy, harmonised vocals and guitars, it's a song that easily slips into your mind and not so easily slips out again.
The Chemistry Experiment - The Chemistry Experiment The Moldy Peaches - Review of County Fair/Rainbows - Cd single The Montgolfier Brothers - Review Of Seventeen Stars - Cd Lp The Raveonettes - Attack of the Ghost Rider - Cd single Winnebago Deal - Review of Plata O Plomo (7 track mini-album)
This great 7" was sold to me by the flute player of the band a while ago while the ATP festival was on. He knocked on my chalet door and asked if I wanted to buy his band's record. He looked like a nice boy; he had good black indie boy glasses
It also sees the peaches playing with a full band of 7 member without losing any of their indie lo-fi charm
They come from Manchester, where, according to their record label's website, Durutti Column and 'Unknown Pleasures' are always on the radio."
The Ravonettes don't rely on fuzzy guitar pedals to make themselves sound more retro; they do it simply from singing, and the melodies that rise and fall sound like they should come from a 1960's B-movie.
It whips by you like storm and leaves you dizzy, disorientated & wondering what hit you.