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Field Music: A House Is Not a Home
Plinky-plonky: the immediate sensory awareness of Field Music's latest single. Two and a half minutes later, you're not left disappointed; this is plinky-plonky of the highest order.
King Creosote: Home in a Sentence
Upon uploading this CD to my iTunes library I was bemused to see the track entitled as 'The Track of My Tears' by 'Jimmie's Chicken Shack'.
Fury of the Headteachers: You Took a Scythe Home
Fury of the Headteachers have come up with a unique style of punk music. It's hard, full of aggression and passion, but they never lose their sense of purpose.
The Ivories release their second single "Heartstrings" on May 8th
Leeds band The Ivories release their second single on Monday, 8th May. "Heartstrings" is the follow up to the band's 2005 debut "Reduce The Temperature" which reached number 19 in the UK Indie Charts, and comes backed with "Long Way Home".
Jack Afro to release their debut single on the 1965 Records (Sony) label
Jack Afro have signed a deal with Sony's latest indie label 1965 Records with their debut single expected to be released in mid May.
Cinerama release new single and live album...
The Scopitones label released Cinerama's new enhanced CD single this month. Having decamped from West Yorkshire to the West Coast at the start of the year, David recorded this new release with Steve Fisk in his new home town of Seattle.
The Acutes to release their second single on the Bad Sneakers Records label in March
Leeds-based record label Bad Sneakers Records have this week revealed that the video for the second single by Leeds duo The Acutes is available to view online now.
Solus Locus and The Velvet Orchestra to release a split single
Leeds-based bands Solus Locus and The Velvet Orchestra will release a split single on the Salt The Wound Records label.
Hood to release the second single from their recent long player...
The second single - "The Negatives" - from Hood's recent album is one of the real highlights from a record of dizzying beauty.
Mother Vulpine to release their debut single in May
Leeds band Mother Vulpine return home from their national tour with Eagles of Death Metal and have announced the release of their debut double A-side single.
Wild Beasts to release a new single on Bad Sneakers Records
On 23rd April, Leeds band Wild Beasts will release their second single on the Leeds-based Bad Sneakers Records label.
Last Night's TV to release new single in July...
The next Last Night's TV album, to be titled Letters Home is now being recorded and as a taster for the new material, the band are putting out a limited run single, entitled Nice To Have A History.
Chichino announce the release of their debut single
Chichino have announced the release of their debut single "Every Little Thing", via the London-based record label The Junk Label, on 19th February.
The debut single from Heads We Dance will be released on April 28th
Leeds based pop group Heads We Dance will be releasing their eagerly anticipated debut single on April 28th!
Various Artists: The Velvet Orchestra / Solus Locus - split single
'The Creator' is a slice of prog-rock madness you're either going to love or not understand in the slightest.
Leeds favourites Bodixa are back with a new single
After a Michael Eavis-endorsed set at Glastonbury 2004 and signing a publishing deal with Complete Music (Everything but the Girl, Roddy Frame, the Buzzcocks) Bodixa have spent time in both south east Ireland and their hometown, writing and recording.
Part One of a two-part interview with Leeds band Chichino, who are set to release their new single "It Could Happen To You"
"I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", Arctic Monkeys' second single and first full-scale release, has shifted a rattling avalanche of around 33,000 copies thus far whilst simultaneously thrusting a very sharp, very painful spear labelled "Reality Check" up the rear end of the boring, apathetic public.
Jack Afro to release their debut album in July
Leeds band Jack Afro have this week revealed details of their début album. Having signed a deal with Japanese label Vinyl Junkie, home of fellow Leeds band The Invention, the band's album will be titled "Once More With Feeling" and will be released in the UK on Monday, 2nd July.
Embrace release "A Glorious Day" on May 30th...
Embrace follow three top 15 singles from their No 1 album "Out Of Nothing" with a new single entitled "A Glorious Day" - set for release on May 30th.
The Music video is online now...
The Music release their latest single on February 17th and the video for the lead track, The Truth Is No Words is now available online from the band's website: click here.
The Pigeon Detectives to release 'Say It Like You Mean It' on 20th October
Leeds band The Pigeon Detectives will release a new single, 'Say It Like You Mean It', on 20th October on the Dance To the Radio record label.
Ashley Hicklin & The Troubadours sign a worldwide publishing deal with EMI
Ashley Hicklin & The Troubadours have this week announced a worldwide publishing deal with EMI. The band were previous winners of the council-led initiative Bright Young Things and have been featured on Look North and BBC Leeds.
Funeral for a Friend: Into Oblivion (Reunion)
Nearly four minutes of the classic song structure. Build up your intro with strings, kick in with ear-splitting guitars, add a catchy chorus, repeat it minus a few instruments, before throwing everything out there for one last effort.
Having played a string of live events across the Midlands and South through June and July, Broken Dolls release their self-titled début album.
Parka's third single "Better Anyway" is another fast paced, Madchester influenced, 3 minute indie-pop song.
I really wanted to like this record. I really tried hard, listening to it at home, at work, whilst doing the washing up, whilst playing the Play Station but alas the plain fact of the matter is, it has no place in my life.
I had high hopes for this one, their Mercury award nominated 'We Can Create' has been getting daily spins at Casa Stevish all through our so called summer and hasn't faded.
Ashley Hicklin & The Troubadours record a live session for BBC 1
The video from the recent live set from Ashley Hicklin (and the full 9 piece string-quartet Troubadour band) is now available for viewing online from the band's MySpace page.
Over the years all-woman bands and rock haven't always gone well together. They've either been too poppy and flowery like the Bangles or they go over the top like L7, but almost always forgettable.
The Composers: A Way Of Being Free
Apparently The Composers "thankfully don't sound much like most of the other bands in East London", thankfully indeed?
'Beat of Blue' begins in earnest with a hardcore thrashing guitar introduction, but then it all turns out a bit light-hearted.
Clearlake @ Leeds Festival 2001
"Everyone's gone to see Marilyn" wistfully opines lead singer Jason Pegg. He's right too. What should be a nicely brimming Carling Tent is not exactly chokka for Clearlake.
Over 10 years since their first gig, this is Florida Ska Punkers Less Than Jake's sixth album and things are changing on 'Anthem'.
Limp Bizkit @ Leeds Festival 2000
2pm: Arrive for what is a very short day for me. I come for four bands in particular, Brassy after their amazing set when they supported Idlewild earlier on this year at the Metropolitan University, Soulwax, after an equally amazing set with Wannadies, and the two American bands Limp Bizkit and Foo Fighters.
Jack Peat is a fairy. He used to be the drummer in Kram but as they were offered a record contract for one single he bottled out and wanted to focus on University.
Kayla Kavanagh is a solo artist with a twist. The 29 year old Irish singer/songwriter performs live with an array of instruments, wires and technology, taking the audience on a journey from acoustic to full technology-led electronica.
Kaiser Chiefs release the DVD of their Elland Road show
Kaiser Chiefs have this week released the DVD of their hometown gig at Elland Road on 24th May. Filmed at the home of Leeds United in front of 40,000 fans, 'Live At Elland Road' covers the band's biggest headline show to date, and the video includes a cameo performance from Mark Ronson and The Cribs' Ryan Jarman.
I never realised there were so many Candians in Leeds, I'm pretty sure they outnumber non Cannucks here tonight.
The debut single from Kaiser Chiefs is quintessentially British guitar pop. And loveably so. Keys - in whatever form - are prominent from the off, introduced via the almost single fingered tinkering of the intro, and at around 3 minutes in there's an "A Day In The Life" like moment, where all parties, including, paradoxically, quietly-screamed vocals, get to build up the sound before heading into a chorus repeat and then fade.
Taking Back Sunday @ Leeds Festival 2006
The New Yorkers upgrade to a main stage slot as they return to the Leeds Festival delivering a large portion of current album 'Louder Now' in live form.
Lupen Crook: A Silver Boot for Sam
When Lupen Crook's fragile, heartbreaking voice echoes out against a backdrop of country-based folkified O'Brother Where Art Thou banjos, pianos, double bass, fiddles (reversed!) and deep, beautifully low, four-part male vocal harmonies (phew!), I know I'm in deep-west acoustic heaven.
Blue Sky Project: Masquerade EP
I have awaited more tracks from Blue Sky Project since listening to their last EP on MySpace (oh the beauty of the Web!) and thought they had potential, so naturally the next offering from them needed to exceed all expectations.
The Holiday Plan: Stories / Sunshine
Summer is almost here. The sun is beating down and the ground is starting to slowly toast in the scorching heat.
Badly Drawn Boy: One Plus One Is One
The latest instalment in Damon Gough's trophy cabinet is his 4th album One Plus One Is One, seemingly coming out of nowhere, with little fanfare or prior warning and only just preceded by the first single "The year of the Rat".
The Pigeon Detectives announce the release of their second album
The Pigeon Detectives have today announced the release of their second album, the follow-up to their 2007 debut 'Wait For Me'.
Little Japanese Toy: Fingermouse
Oh the joy of breaking out a real 7 inch single and then loving it as much as this. les Flames! go at it like rutting dogs in a home for delicate poodles.
les Flames!: Commitment to Excellence
Oh the joy of breaking out a real 7 inch single and then loving it as much as this. les Flames! go at it like rutting dogs in a home for delicate poodles.
Chichino: It Could Happen To You
Pop, soul, jazz, funk. Chichino are inspired by all areas of music, and it's paying off. Having played all over the UK, London, Manchester, Newcastle, and of course Leeds, gracing the airwaves of various radio stations across the land and supporting the likes of success story The View, this is the next song from the funk-a-riffic group.
sammyUSA: Doorway of a Dancehall
'Doorway Of A Dancehall' sounds as though its spiritual home is located slap bang in the epicentre of Britain, roughly ten years ago.
Bless Luxembourg. They're even trying to write the review for me with their press notes. They also take pride in having a "real life audience rather than a virtual one", before going on to say how "myspace had no part in generating the word of mouth...".
Misty's Big Adventure: The Solar Hi Fi System
Here it is folks, the single most bizarre CD I've ever come across. Musically, it's impossible to label, as they have so many different guises and sounds on this record that you lose yourself trying to second guess where the album is going to go next.
The Twilight Sad: Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Epic, intense, dramatic, cinematic... just a few words you might use to describe this Glasgow-based quartet's debut album.
Gavin Miller talks wih Stafrænn Hákon prior to the forthcoming tour of the UK, which includes a Leeds show on 19th Sepember...
After making waves in his hometown of Manchester with several previous demos, Stickboy (the alias of Craig Edmonson) throws down another DIY folk release.
Cornershop: Handcream For A Generation
Many people, myself included, will have only experienced Cornershop's excellent genre meanderings via their singles "Brimful Of Asha" and "Sleep On The Left Side", (surprisingly now four years old).
I wasn't going to write about this single; I was going to just sit quietly and indulge in its creamy, glacial atmosphere like one might with, say, a Magnum or a (po) Calypso (har har!
Why, oh why, oh why?? What is it with female bass players? Now I've been in bands with three myself and my current partner in rhythm, Miss Ravelle, is an exception to this rule...mostly anyway.
The Moldy Peaches @ Leeds Festival 2002
First up of the Main Stage on Saturday are fancy dress fetishists Moldy Peaches. And, lo and behold, they've been rummaging around in the dressing up box again with acoustic guitarist in full length unicorn costume, Kimya in bear head and Adam in an extremely tassel-y cowboy outfit.
The sonic boom felt from Pretty Like Drugs is an introduction no one will forget in a long time, as the mix of eerie interludes and full on aural blasts shatters through the atmosphere.
Following their huge single Just For Tonight, their top 10 debut album Started A Fire, a sold out tour from January to March, North Yorkshire five-piece, One Night Only have announced a new headline tour for May.
When I moved to Leeds 15 years ago, the first gig I saw was in Lister Park, Bradford, with a packed crowd enjoying the sounds of The Wedding Present, who were on a stage in the middle of a lake.
Having deleted all-conquering debut single 'Crazy' after a mere nine weeks at number one, Messers Mouse and Green, poised as they were on the brink of a Bryan Adams/Wet Wet Wet-style public hanging, surely now deserve an honorary knighthood or a Buckingham Palace garden party invite at the very least.
The winners of Zane Lowe's Fresh Meat (?!) award open the proceedings with some rock and roll. Brighton garage rockers The Lodge have a heavy twinge of The Stooges about them, and play simple but catchy singles 'Piece of Cake' and new tune 'Noose'.
Mumm-Ra: These Things Move in Threes
I tend to be a little wary of bands like Mumm-Ra, who take up instruments with the sole purpose of being in a band to pass the time - something all the members of this group admit to.
four day Hombre to release a mini-album - "Fight Death" - on 4th December
Following on from their hugely successful debut album 'Experiments in Living' earlier this year, Leeds band four day Hombre release a new mini-album on the Alamo Music record label on 4th December.
The Chemical Brothers: Push the Button
The Chemical Brothers are back after a long overdue hiatus and have produced an album whose sound can only be described as well...
Grand Volume: Send Me Your Champion
Obviously not short of confidence, this trio from Manchester, as Send Me your Champion aspires to throw down the gauntlet to today's crop of rock bands and, on some levels at least, succeeds.
Good old rock and roll that's what Vatican Jet dish out! Apparently standing in for Being 747, these lads did a great job!
Yellow Stripe Nine: Trouble With Girls
Unfortunately, this is one time machine in musical form I do not want to step inside. The dapper young gentlemen from Yellow Stripe Nine (now abbreviated to YSN, folks - bewilderment!
Billy Bragg: Mr Love & Justice
Everything I don't really want to say about Mr Love and Justice is forced out of me by knowing that the slack and meandering four and half minute first track is also the single from the album.
A return to the city he calls home, for David Gedge, in his most famous incarnation, this was always going to be an emotional affair and a sweep through a 20 year-old back catalogue proved to be just that.
Queen Adreena: The Butcher And The Butterfly
Hate to sound so abrupt, but Katie Jane-Garside is weird. Is it that I personally don't understand her twisted world of sickly intense lyrics?
Imagine a world where Axl is king, and Wayne and Garth are the court jesters. Time stands still beyond the Eighties, and Francis Rossi and Lemmy have a love child.
Following the success of their debut EP, and nearing the completion of the UK tour, The Music return home to a sold out (and then some), heaving and very hot Leeds Warehouse, a gig that also welcomes Liverpool's The Coral.
When the news first arrived that Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke was to release a solo record it came as a bit of a surprise, certainly considering Radiohead were currently in the middle of a tour and busy recording their highly anticipated seventh album, however, many felt Thom would go solo at some point...
Wannadies @ Leeds Festival 2000
8am: Wake up in a comfy bed at home. This year I avoided camping, and I'm now glad that I made that decision.
Recently, there's been a contrast of sorts when going out - some nights can be spent bumping into some of the most passionate promoters and talented musicians the city can offer; people who have a genuine enthusiasm for the music scene in Leeds.
The home date of any tour is always going to be that little bit special, and with high expectations the 1000+ crowd sing-along joyously to Justin Timberlake and Amy Winehouse, before 'Drove All Night' welcomes the Rothwell boys to the stage.
According to pretty much every review I read for Hood's latest LP 'Outside Closer', it's a very summery record, full of twee acoustic sounds, lovely glittering soundscapes and a general feel of upbeat loveliness.
Click Here For Review 2 Sometimes a band comes along with a little extra. I had seen this band in Leicester on the Wednesday, its Saturday now and I'm in Leeds for only the third time in my life.
With so many singer/songwriters about at the moment, it's understandable that people are looking for something different.
The Glitterati @ Fibbers (York)
"We all wanna be big, big stars but we don't know why and we don't know how". So sang Counting Crows, which subsequently became their 'how'.
I can't believe how impressed I am with this CD. And not only do I get to listen to some cracking songs - and I mean cracking - I get a whole album of them through the post, a ten-track album I'd pay good money for.
"100,000,000 Bon Jovi fans can't be wrong" declared the New Jerseyites' career spanning box set. Whilst there is no doubting that Bon Jovi have consistently 'shipped units' for over 20 years and won just about every music award going (along with Jon Bon Jovi's Oscar nomination for his solo work) there's a serious divide over the band's credibilty.
One thing I can never fathom about O Fracas is whether they're creative geniuses, or really rubbish. See, sometimes, all I can infer from the established Leeds four-piece's music is that they've had a load of particularly good ideas, but then decided to sack off rehearsal in favour of taking loads of drugs and piecing the sections together in a manner that seemed perfectly rational at the time.
Mother Vulpine @ Brudenell Social Club
Such is the packed out full of goodnessness of tonight's On The Bone, I rudely enter the Brudenell a couple of songs into Wintermute's set.
Five O'Clock Heroes: Bend To The Breaks
Today in chateaux Lewis we open the packaging to discover a wonderful display of thoughtful CD case design.
I wish I could start this review in the same way Polaris start this eponymous album of theirs. Because then you'd understand exactly what it was I was setting out to do.
The Long Blondes @ Escobar (Wakefield)
Word to the Louder Than Bombs crew for a quality line up, and the disappointed looks in a queue that from just 8.15pm had to sit out a one-in-one-out situation tells a story in itself!
On this seven track CD "doh, ray, me" Andie Mills makes a strong case as a distinctive solo performer.
What a stupid rule! You're in the venue but to get to the room where the bands will be performing you have to go back outside and round to the other entrance instead of walking ten yards through the doors in front of you, quickly supping off the fresh pint you've just acquired!
Standing around the Cockpit, waiting for my interview slot, I got chatting with the drummer from The Humour, who were getting ready to soundcheck.
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First band up tonight are The Kennedy Soundtrack, a band who I last saw at Breeze 2002, and didn't think were that special.
When the press release for this CD stomped its way into my hands promising "two tracks of blistering, balls out rock" I was understandably excited.
Kaiser Chiefs @ Leeds Festival 2006
An overnight deluge and a mixed weather forecast haven't dampened the spirits of the 65,000 festival goers, who return happy, but tired, for another joyous day at Bramham Park.
I arrived early to make sure we caught indie-electro Leeds band The Hair - when they came onstage the room that was empty just 15 minutes before was now full.
As Minus are about to finish their set at 7:40 I stroll into the venue... shit. Ikara Colt take to the stage in the form of a British Von Bondies with ladies at either side of lead singer Paul Resende.
American bands are cool these days. What with this and adventurous promoting from Melting Vinyl, we have a healthy throng at Joseph's Well to see performance art-rock straight outta Chicago.
The Hold Steady spray paint a neon landscape of deadbeat dives where get-rich-quick schemes are played out by bible-quoting barflies and women of ill repute.
The release of "You are the Quarry" sees Morrissey's 7th solo album proper and a 7 year wait to follow up his last, virtually ignored release "Maladjusted".
Now you know you're in for a good night when the stage is awash with cans of Guinness even before seven downtown LA agro Celt merchants take to the stage.
four day Hombre @ Royal Park Cellars
"i found a skull today by the motorway its bone was paper thin could crack under anything" because drat create fiercely intelligent ferociously random observational songs with two guitars a bass a drums and a notebook that lends catchy loops to some of the quirkiest yet shamelessly honest compositions i've encountered for a while sung through telephones bolted to microphone stands following introductions every bit as surreal i mean songs about bells palsy don't hit you in the face very often even if youd only half notice when they did but drat are an aural and visual acyclovir-prednisone cocktail tasting of smile on my lips which is of course a first rate thing as the bending notes plus quirky chords swish with sway around the busy buzzy royal park cellars where there are no s m u k punk royal girls stretching today but lots of untailored folk instead even sitting on the floor which is effective although i wouldnt as its covered in stout spilt earlier but got away with i think a sample lyric might shed some light so theres one at the top of the page on their exemplary website there is brittle pale blue and theres even a guitar tuner so go and observe for yourself four day hombre get better and healthier every time i glimpse them which hasn't been enough lately but sufficient to see their hair grow out as their songs strengthen until i love the choruslines that flex and spin like simone clarke like on don't go gently where they probably really did give it away but its okay to remember and reflect that if your miss u contestant did thump you in the chest it was probably just to keep you going believe me sometimes thats more than you deserve child then the im sorry song lifts the place back up in a flurry of oxymoronic harmony joy soon theres drink too both beer and tea which is apt since four day hombre are so very english sounding by which by i suggest they are eloquent when using its not like it used to be you need to download the video you need to offload but in the interim simon or richie or both can do that for you by proxy while you put your hand in the back pocket of those jeans but not to buy the boys the drinks they request from the stage maybe later because right now bathed in red light he looks like john cale before the nobodys little girl song resolves and until the epic single room wends steadfastly into the night we don't have to go home from for a while yet
Bouncing verily between musical styles are THE 'BURN. Mixing prog moments with occasional yee-haw down home geeetar and harmonica before shutting up shop with a rousing 'Storm In Heaven'-era Verve-alike sound.
Tonight, with James from Duels deputising for Rich (drummer, broken elbow), Leeds four-piece The Hair performed at the Brudenell Social Club supporting Good Shoes. Charlotte Oxnard managed to catch up with them for a few words afterwards...
Charlotte Hatherley: I Want You To Know
Ash albums were always a right old mess - tracks were either totally poptastic gems or just plain shit.
Interview: The Sunshine Underground
Alex Denney caught up with The Sunshine Underground during their current UK headlining tour
One of the most underrated acts to emerge from the same Scottish scene as the likes of Idlewild and (obviously early) Snow Patrol, Seafood, through no fault of their own have just never caught on to the mainstream in a way that their combined talents have always merited.
Saturday night and four bands take to the stage at Leeds' Premier pub/venue location, The Duchess. First up are the duo of Andy Parrott & Rob Karl, who unfortunately I missed.
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LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
James Murphy is a man who owns lots of records, and judging by the influences present on Sound of Silver, it's clear to see that not only of the size of his record collection is enormous, the quality of it is too.
Leeds Music Scene caught up with The Whip as they kick off their UK tour
Punk rock's current poster boys Gallows have come a long way since their humble beginnings back in Watford.
Oceansize: One Day All This Could Be Yours
Chris Sheldon (Feeder and so on) has done a very tidy production job on a couple of new but shapeless and over extended Oceansize tunes, with a storming live recording of "Massive Bereavement" that pushes the playing time up to over 20 minutes.
Yourcodenameis: Milo @ Joseph's Well
This wet Sunday evening starts off with Kram, a Leeds-based trio whose name I've heard pop up in every second conversation this week.
Up first tonight are US based band Five O'Clock Heroes. Perfecting cheerful pop sensibility alongside dirty rock they possess a fiery sound, with each beat of the drum, each bouncy bass line and vocal melody perfectly executed to produce a catchy rock sound.
Unexploded Shells: Made In The Same City As You
It's been a lean time for music lately. I've been impressed by stuff, but hardly bowled over at the same time.
It's a busy month for Leeds quintet Duels. A slot at T In The Park, two singles and the release of the band's eagerly awaited debut album, "The Bright Lights & What I Should Have Learned". Sophie Barnes asks the questions...
Jonjo is a pop star, a songwriter, a creative multi-instrumentalist genius.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Leeds Town Hall
So then ladies and gents lets go back a couple of years when Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Strokes and the White Stripes were unleashed on us surrounded by a haze of media frenzy and unadulterated cool.
£50 is the price currently being offered for Chichester's newest (and probably only) post rock group's first EP, the epic 'Black Dollar Bills'.
City And Colour @ Brudenell Social Club
City And Colour are a curious act to find in a place like this. To think that a member of an internationally renowned screamo outfit would bring his solo acoustic tour to the Brudenell sounds absolutely ludicrous.
Various Artists: Rough Trade Shops - Counter Culture 2007
Every year since 2003 there's been a Counter Culture - or at least, a Counter Culture that's been documented by Rough Trade on a Counter Culture compilation.
Joseph C Seager managed to ask Amy Studt a few words about the past, present, and future before her new album 'My Paper Made Men' hits the shelves.
The Scaramanga Six @ Joseph's Well
Well blimey! I walk into Joseph's Well at about 3:20pm after standing in the pissing rain for 20 minutes outside the place (yes, you said you were opening at three!) but at least it gave me chance to sober up slightly seeing as I had been in Carpe Diem for the three previous hours and was somewhat jolly already.
Bloc Party @ Leeds Festival 2008
The last day of the festival. It threw it down on Saturday Night but when The Blackout came to the main stage, they had a little battle with the elements.
After listening to this hurtling rollercoaster of a musical offering, one would be forgiven for imagining Leeds' Grammatics create their masterpieces holed up in a candlelit gothic garage, in between earnestly skimming Tolstoy, purely for artistic merit.
Predominantly a student venue, the Faversham does exactly what it says on the tin, and you know what to expect: tight jeans, fruity dresses, lots of hair and pointy shoes.
With the gloom of winter still maintaining its depressing stranglehold, a night of typically eclectic ensembles at Josephs Well is the only beacon of light on a bitter Monday night.
Newton Faulkner: Hand Built By Robots
Quirky acoustic guitarists are not exactly redundant at the moment. So for something of this genre to be deemed 'important', in my opinion it has to be essential and most of all, interesting.
Instant Species: The Longer You Leave It, The Louder It Gets...
Lured by some professional quality graphics I bought Instant Species' "Home Alone" CD last year. I ended up a bit disappointed by what I thought of at the time as bleak plodding music.
The Music @ Roadhouse (Manchester)
Review featured with permission from www.manchestermusic.co.uk Not unlike the amount of feather boas and leopard print present for the Manic Street Preachers, or backwards caps for Limp Bizkit, the traditional demin clad bowlheads fill Manchester's Roadhouse for the most hyped band this year.
Duels: The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned
There'll be no band on earth more relived to have finally succeeded in putting out a full length recording than the boys and girl of Duels.
After the most stressful and unnerving day ever I was in need of some music, so off I race to RPC just in time to catch the catch the start of the All Star 69ers.
Protectors is a 3 piece guitar rock band from Leeds.
Sheffield over the past year has lost out on four tradesmen but gained yet another new name to add to their increasing list of bands that are discharging out of the city and becoming national, if not global names. No longer will it be know for its steel industry, but for its abundance of long haired, converse wearing, real life talking bands.
Bilge Pump @ Brudenell Social Club
It may be Friday 13th, but as someone who as of yesterday is free from the clutches of academia for 3 months, I am most certainly not going to let that stop me from having a top night; and judging by the line-up, a little superstition isn't going to get in the way at all.
I was rather excited about getting tickets for this gig. Not only was I off to see one of my new favourite-bands-you-haven't-really-heard-of-but-will-soon, GoodBooks, I was going to a student only night.
After several hours trying to pronounce their name, with variations on 'Pelliump' and 'Effelump' (okay, so we didn't even know what they were called, nevermind how to SAY it), we stand gazing intently at the duo known as Pellumair whilst they drift off into trances.
The Sunshine Underground @ LMUSU
Fans were gathering and touts were waiting even before the doors opened at 7 tonight. For this was to be the triumphant homecoming and tour finale of local (kinda) hero's The Sunshine Underground.
Hot Club De Paris play Leeds on 1st June and release their new album on 16th June. Joseph Seager caught up with the band to ask them some questions.
International Trust @ Brudenell Social Club
I'm a prat. Got my times muddled and missed out on opening band Chops. Oops. I hear they were stupid but great, so that's that one hastily out of the way.
"Let's rock 'til we drop" says My Awesome Compilation frontman Chris Driver to kick off tonight's proceedings, the 18th leg of this European Atticus tour, featuring the Leicester four piece as well as Americans Hopesfall and Tsunami Bomb...
Backlash alert. You can find substantial evidence claiming Temecula, California's Finch's debut album 'What It Is To Burn' to be one of the finest pieces of post-hardcore/emo ever relayed to disc.
The last few years have hardly been a triumph for Embrace; set up as "the next Oasis" their debut album reached the number one spot and, while not selling 'shed loads' ('tent loads' anyone?), did seem to set them up nicely for future records.
It should be said tonight's performance resembles more of a metal gig than a watered down emo effort.
I like a place where the beer is cold and my feet stick to the floor. The Cockpit, my own little microcosm of punk, rock and roll and all that is indie.
Two support bands. Why? Why oh fucking why? Maybe I need clarification, but I thought the whole point of a support band was to warm up the crowd for the main event, not take away all the time from them?
Tindersticks: Waiting For The Moon
Tindersticks are one of the UK's most talented, and rather unfortunately, overlooked bands of the past 10 years or so, and 'Waiting For The Moon', their latest LP, should go a long way to help give the band the attention they deserve.
The Sunshine Underground @ LMUSU
The Hair, the hair, the hair. In all shapes and forms. Crammed into LMUs main room. Drinking, sweating and belching through the night.
Million Dead: Harmony No Harmony
Million Dead are f**king awesome. No. Seriously. Folks. They really are. If 2003's debut effort 'A Song To Ruin' passed you by somewhat, firstly you are indeed a foolish human being and secondly, this, album number two, if you give it half a chance, will suck you in and spit you out believing THIS is something special and Million Dead are one of, if not the, best band in Britain right now.
The Adventures of Loki: Feminine Side
I don't write reviews. I've rarely felt moved enough to bother taking the time to do it, and I categorically do not do pannings.
Fold your hands you walk like a rock star. The Dandy Warhols represent the triumph of substances over substance and their first two albums are testament to this with a handful of quirky, catchy and perfectly snotty pop gems along with dawdling tunes you might call "Atmospheric" or "Filler" if your in generous mood.
The Ordinary Boys @ Blank Canvas
"Can anyone tell me what city I'm in?" howls the suited and booted lead Kaiser, red pin striped arms flailing at his side.
Mr Shiraz @ Warehouse (Huddersfield)
Well if there was ever a rock 'n' roll town, it's gotta be Huddersfield. Why bloody Huddersfield? I asked Mr Shiraz and their pop impresario and all-round genial chap of a manager, and they all just said 'You'll see'.
Interview: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Currently on tour with US space rockers Yo La Tengo, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci cohort Richard James gets grilled on playing live, record labels and where that name comes from...
Jeremy Smoking Jacket @ Packhorse
Two Bristol artists and Leeds' 7 Hertz made their way over to the tiny packed out room above the bar at the Packhorse for a night of fantastic experimental music.
... A funny thing happened to me on the way to the refectory. Actually it didn't, I was just late. Almost as late in fact as the members of The Basement are for the Dylan bandwagon that they seem so keen to jump on.
Billy Talent put us straight on hangover cures and the fact that Canadian music's not all Celine Dion and Bryan Adams...
Victoria Holdsworth talks to The Glitterati as they make a welcome return to their hometown.
Johnny Foreigner: Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
Johnny Foreigner are a strange band in that they have consistently got great reviews including a 10/10 for their debut EP 'Arcs Across The City' on Drowned For Sound and an 8/10 for this their debut album from NME, yet they still remain an unknown quantity outside of their hardcore followers and have received little hype compared to what a lot of other new bands have.
Charity begins at home or so they say. Well I've never really understood what that means but charity was the aim of the nights over Monday and Tuesday this week at Joey's Well.
Fresh from having the accolade of 'Best Live Act 2008' bestowed upon them by no less august an institution than Q magazine, the Kaiser Chiefs arrive this evening - not only to kick off their autumn tour, but to christen their hometown's newest venue.
As another long night bleeds into another bright, sunny day, bleary eyed tent dwellers emerge from their probably now a little bit on the stale side canvas abodes to see out the last day of the festival.
Fall Out Boy is: Patrick Stump - Vocals, Guitar Joe Trohman - Guitar Andy Hurley - Drums Pete Wentz - Bass, Backing vocals While walking across the stage to receive the MTV2 Award for "Sugar, We're Going Down," the only thing on Fall Out Boy bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz's mind was "please don't drop an f-bomb." Shortly thereafter the band, originally from suburban Chicago, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
That's right folks, the notoriously troublesome second album is due, you've used all your best tunes on the first one and back home everybody else has re-hashed them behind your back while you've been busy conquering North America.
Pretty Girls Make Graves @ Joseph's Well
This a belated review, for the simple fact I have been away in Edinburgh, breathing in clean Lothian air and sampling many types of whiskey since Tuesday, and amidst my general binging found no time to write the piece coherently.
In all the years of being a fan this was the first time I saw Marc 'live'. I had seen former associates of his from Vicious Pink some time back.
There's always been a place for humour in music. All the best bands had wit without being cheesy and over the top with it, and tonight proves that humorous observations and amusing asides don't mean you have to be the Grumbleweeds.
Will Ridge interviews Tim Wheeler and Rick McMullen of the band Ash and tries to establish what the future has in hold for them now they have turned their back on the conventional album.
Andy Roberts talks with Lyca Sleep prior to their Joseph's Well show...
Even if he is unable to attend - by dint of incarceration, far-flung vacation or other indisposition - the embedded chronological awareness of any Leeds gig-goer will tell him at this juncture (6pm on the first Friday of the month) that he should be nestling within the subterranean catacombs of the Hi-Fi Club.
Interview: Goldie Lookin' Chain
Holden DeForge is invited aboard the Goldie Lookin' Chain tour bus to talk to Two Hats and Roscoe P about their current tour, leisurewear and mums with cocks...
Another Saturday, once again striving for that elusive intimate gig, the night that blows all the others out of the water, the Leeds hard rock fraternity, raise two fingers defiantly toward its heavily subscribed, yet vastly popular indie scene, and turn out in force to the one place they feel at home.
The Scaramanga Six @ Leeds Festival 2007
Hadouken! - Radio 1 Stage A heaving tent full of sweat and dubious amounts of day-glow welcomes semi-home-towners Hadouken!.
The scheme brewing in the collective mind of ¡Forward, Russia!, Leeds' pioneers of screeching, mercurial noise, is a simple one. It goes like this...
Andy Roberts gives les Flames! a grilling...
The NME brought its Carling Awards tour to Leeds on Tuesday night, meaning the city was buzzing with three different types of music lover.
I give you fair warning. I am about to break the ancient, time-honoured and globally respected code of the International Covenant of Authors, Note-Takers, Writers, Reviewers, Interviewers, Talkers and Editors (or ICANTWRITE for short) covering the critique of musical releases and/or performances on precisely 2 counts. In fact one of these has already been broken. So apologies if this warning comes too late in the day and has already caused you unnecessary distress.
Foo Fighters @ Leeds Festival 2005
Sunday started like any other day. Apart from this Sunday I happened to wake up in a field with 30 odd thousand other bear soaked, bleary eyed, unwashed, desperate bladder controlling festival revellers.
Ricky Warwick was, and still is, the formidable front man for one of the heaviest rock acts the UK has ever seen. Victoria Holdsworth asks the questions...