Latest article by this writer was posted on Tuesday, 2nd September 2008
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Sam Saunders: music journalist and writer for Leeds Music Scene
Latest article by this writer was posted on Tuesday, 2nd September 2008
Interviews (2)
- The Yards
Sam Saunders spoke to Chris Helme of the Yards in January 2004... - Mike Randle (Baby Lemonade / Love)
Sam Saunders chats with Mike Randle, a member of long established and mild mannered Baby Lemonade, who have a secret life as superhero band Love, playing alongside Arthur Lee on the "Forever Changes" Tour that hits the UK this month...
CD Reviews (266)
Dugong
Quick to the City
Embrace
Gravity EP
Soberskin
Prototype
The Noise
Cheap Thrills EP
Colin Mounsey
The Hungry Pig EP
Instant Species
Plan "E"
Bonsai Kittens
Damn You Evil Women, Damn You!
Various Artists
Urban Fusion II
Tract
Destroy Reality TV
Zealous
Dust
Cardboard Cowboy
Unload Your Head
Ric Neale
Hasn't Heard of You Either
Lucky Jim
You're Lovely to Me
Ten Seconds Of Chaos
Don't Cut Me Out
Threekseven
The Halcyon EP
Last Night's TV
Nice to Have a History
Nutronstars
Carltonpop!!!
Shaun T Hunter
For Adults and Brave Children
Fountainhead
Footprints in the Sand
Piskie Sits
Untitled
Khopek
s/t
Samsa
Quiet Places
Graceadelica
On EP
Six By Seven
Ready For You Now
Cherryfalls
For All My Sins
Capri
Boogie Man- The Old House
s/t 
Atlantic Dash
Human Error- The Hair
Untitled 
Bonsai Kittens
The Big Laugh Happy Happy Joy Joy Album
The Music Roll Exchange
Untitled
Samskara
Untitled
Ramon
The First EP
Nikoli
Take It & Go / She Asks Me
iLiKETRAiNS
athemercyofstephenson
Earl Okin
Musical Genius and Sex Symbol- Monte Carlo
Trilogy #1 
Galitza
Do You See? Do You?
Columbia Drive
s/t
Nic Armstrong
The Greatest White Liar
Chicken Legs Weaver
Street Cleaner EP
The Alarm
In the Poppy Fields- Dangerlust
Untitled 
The Noise
Untitled
Curtis Eller's American Circus
1890
Vib Gyor
Insomnia EP- Terra Diablo
Swings & Roundabouts (album sampler) - The Psychedelic Breakfast
Confusion 
d-koy
Temperature
Thirteen Senses
Thru The Glass- The Pocket Gods
Lost - Luke Hirst
Songs for a rainy day - Spitfire Charlie
Untitled - Sungover
Convoy / Nixon 
Loudmouth Soup
Skydiver / Narcolepsy
Beachbuggy
Nineteen
The Scaramanga Six
The Poison Pen
Spring
Circle Cake
The Slate Pipe Banjo Draggers
Untitled
Lovechild
Untitled
This Holiday Life
The Fallout
Mantra
Skake me down EP
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
When we won't have to make the freezing scene no more
A Day Left
Everything Grows Light
Grimper
Straight out with the Worcesters
Herdwhite
Put Down Your Weapons
Stuffy and The Fuses
Join me or Die!
Explosions in the Sky
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Hallelujah Johnson
33.3 Revolutionsperminute
Being 747
Fun and Games
Four Stroke
4mornings
Bodixa
California
The Stills
Logic Will Break Your Heart
Ram
For Your Love EP
The Twilight Singers
Blackberry Belle
Swimmer One
Come On, Let's Go!
Sidearm
Graffitied Litter
Magoo
We r synchronized
De Novo Dahl
s/t
Mexican Alibi
The Ace Catastrophe
Stereophonics
Since I Told You It's Over
The Futureheads
A to B
Various Artists
Fat Northerner Records Volume 2: In The City Edition
Kinesis
One Way Mirror
Clarkesville
Secret File- Smilex
Mystique / Sex 4 Sale 
Elbow
Fallen Angel
The Bandits
And They Walked Away (album sampler)
Ella Guru
3 Songs from Liverpool
10 Days
The Future is Unwritten
Commercial Dual Purpose
The James Bailey Experience
Black Car
s/t
The Lonesome Organist
Forms and Follies
The Koreans
Machine Code
Nylon Pylon
Foot in Mouth
Mull Historical Society
Am I Wrong?
Columbus Dixon
Nothing Concrete Ltd
Joan of Arc
In Rape Fantasy & Terror Sex We Trust
Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells 2003- Micawba
Linear - The Psychedelic Breakfast
s/t 
Four Tet
Rounds- Barry and the Beachcombers
Untitled 
Adam Masterson
One Tale Too Many
Tindersticks
Don't even go there EP
Oceansize
One Day All This Could Be Yours
Medium 21
Killings from the Dial
Brendan Benson
Metarie!
The Rain Band
Easy Rider- Un-Cut
Midnight 
Dirty Three
She Has No Strings Apollo- Various Artists
At Least You Can Die With A Smile On Your Face - The Halcyon Band
Sirocco - The Reverse
Untitled - AM
Drive Thru The Center - Akaysia Parker
Whispers 
Paul Weller
Leafy Mysteries
Aqualung
Good Times Gonna Come
Björk
Greatest Hits
Badly Drawn Boy
Have You Fed the Fish
Andy Votel
All Ten Fingers
Nile
Born- Mitchell
Untitled 
The Polyphonic Spree
The Beginning Stages of...
Saint Etienne
Action
Ben Kweller
Wasted & Ready
Dot Allison
Strung Out- The Shining
Young Again - Orange Fall
Orange Fall 
Cornershop
Staging- AKp
Wake Up Dead - Orange Fall
Untitled 
Ben Kweller
Sha Sha- Slowdrowned
Untitled 
The Reindeer Section
Son Of Evil Reindeer- Kid Samson
Untitled - Guided *
Little Light - Kasino
Fearless - Icarus Sister
Ghost - The Iinviisiibles
Do Paranoia Don't - Serious Aeolian Belfry
What The Hell Is This? 
Sawthroat
Slave EP
Deerpark
It made her look spidery
Capital State
Revolution Thoughts EP
Samsa
Untitled
OCD
Untitled
Being 747
Swing Ball
Mama Scuba
Sweet Girl
Farming Incident
The Flute of Shame
Immune
Elek
The Outlines
Love EP
Seven Hours
Seven Hours EP
The Blueskins
Magic Road EP
Yellow Stripe Nine
Sirens EP
Nikoli
Resigned EP
Cope
Sky City
Dugong
Hat Danko- Cardboard Cowboy
Untitled 
Itch
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Charly Six
Take Your Hands From Me
Kerouac
I Hope Everything's Alright In Your World
Ridgevex
s/t
This Et Al
Everything's irrelevant and no idea's original
Rob Nichols
Allegory
Little Big Men
Let It Go
The Dais
Untitled
Mojo Pin
The Breaking Places
future sons of rome
Paroxysm
The Tennessee Traincrash
Untitled
Little Japanese Toy
Fingermouse
les Flames!
Commitment to Excellence
Laura Audio
Untitled
A Day Left
The pseudo post neo modern avante bassment garden rock EP
Serf
Watch the World Go By
LaRusso
Untitled
The Alamo
Hello Venus!
Danny Cope
The Way I See It
Uma
Live at the Met- Unyson
Science Fiction 
Whole Sky Monitor
We Grow Up EP- Dermo
Untitled 
Sear
Until The Dust Lies- Anechoic
Untitled - Nikoli
You've Come So Far - North South Divide
Another Fine Day - Signal Generator
Square Wave EP - The Xenith Sound
Fear is the Enemy - The Lost 45s UK
We Were Storming - The Noise
The Electric Press - The Lucida Console
Untitled 
Kava Kava
Maui
The Bluefoot Project
Brave- Little Japanese Toy
Calling Disused Numbers - Samsa
Working on the Inside - Soberskin
Erectronic - The Invention
Untitled - Saving Lenny
Easy Way Out - The Couderhae Connection
Untitled - The Bilderberg Group
Use Yer Head - The Ben Siddall Band
High On You EP - Beeker
Summer Fruit - Mr Dogg
Get Out of the Warehouse - Y?
Untitled 
Instant Species
Meat Pie Argument
The Scaramanga Six
Strike! Up the Band- Cha Cha Cohen
All Artists are Criminals - The Real Losers
Crime Time - Pop Threat
No Way Out 
four day Hombre
The First Word is the Hardest- Bodixa
Fairytailed 
The Music
s/t- Various Artists
Aural Quagmire - Parisman
Responsible for Everything EP - Big Blu
Untitled - Divided by Zero
Untitled - Brass Moustache
Brudenell Groove - Last Night's TV
Know and Love - Floozy
Untitled - Andy Clare
Only in Your Glory - Glazed
Redeemer EP - Xi
Untitled - Felix Leiter
Lighter Than Leiter - Andy Clare
After Everything - Andie Mills
Doh, Ray, Me - Various Artists
United Sounds of the HiFi Club - Herrod
Champion The Cause (sampler) - Portabello
Once Around The Sun - Andy Beverley
Swords in the Sunset - Uptight
Smut Rock EP - Afternoon
Untitled - Storyville
Untitled - Ten Dollar Fist
Keep Control - Sierpinski
This Geography Of Ours - The Lab
Time To Change Time? (Walk) - Accolade
Something In The Sky - Cardboard Cowboy
Untitled - Jonny Berliner
s/t - Various Artists
Bright Young Things 2002 - Shallowend
Now You Can Own The Experience - Chevron
Twisted And Fallen 
Instant Species
The Longer You Leave It, The Louder It Gets...- Blue Mantis
Real Life Is Absent - Mojo Pin
Stripes - The Definitve List
Untitled - Flaccid Soapher
Untitled - Capital State
Middle Of The Night - Linus
Total Waste Of Time - Purity Jar
Sunshine - Parisman
A Lesson In The Art Of Balance 
Being 747
Weather Girl
The Bluefoot Project
Observations- Various Artists
Junction 47 - Suki
30:00 - Itch
Spiralling Paper Planes - Whitehouse Blues
Untitled 
The Scaramanga Six
The Continuing Saga Of- Capri
Earth Songs - Chilli
Broken Hearts - Rob Nichols
2nd Album - Xi
Learning - The Bilderberg Group
I Knew You'd Know I'd Know You Know - Last Night's TV
Quiet Storm EP - The Trophy Cabinet
The First Xi - Amorius
Untitled - Spoonfish
Untitled - Pill Box Hat
Sandown Road
Live Reviews (30)
- i concur
Leeds Festival 2008 - 24th August 2008 - Kid iD
Leeds Festival 2008 - 24th August 2008 - Fran Rodgers
Leeds Festival 2008 - 23rd August 2008 - Pulled Apart by Horses
Leeds Festival 2008 - 23rd August 2008 - Tiger Shadow
Leeds Festival 2008 - 23rd August 2008 - Eureka Machines
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - Dinosaur Pile-up
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - The Humour
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - That Fucking Tank
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - Solus Locus
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - FF'ers
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - These Monsters
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - The Bacchae
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - Loqui
Leeds Festival 2008 - 22nd August 2008 - Duels + ¡Forward, Russia! + iLiKETRAiNS + The Lodger + This Et Al + The Old House
Woodhouse Liberal Club - 11th March 2005 - Nina Nastasia
City Varieties - 14th June 2004 - Tom Gourley + Benjamin Wetherill + Louise Dal + Fran Rodgers
Royal Park Cellars - 26th May 2004 - Bilge Pump + David Thomas Broughton + Dungeon Dungeon
Cardigan Arms - 5th March 2004 - Parisman + les Flames! + four day Hombre + The Somatics + This Et Al + Black Wire
LMUSU - 26th February 2004 - The Tennessee Traincrash + The Grips + The Old House
The Vine - 20th February 2004 - Love with Arthur Lee + Chris Helme
City Varieties - 16th February 2004 - The Tennessee Traincrash
Cockpit - 23rd July 2003 - Low + Fortdax + Geoff Smith
Leeds Parish Church - 8th February 2003 - Rob Nichols + All Star 69ers
Joseph's Well - 29th September 2002 - Whole Sky Monitor + Rolla + les Flames!
Rocket - 24th July 2002 - Black Nielson + Mama Scuba + Galitza + Edible 5ft Smiths
Brudenell Social Club - 27th June 2002 - Miss Black America + Antihero + Kenosha
Buff Club (Otley) - 7th June 2002 - God Speed You Black Emperor! + Kepler
St George's Hall (Bradford) - 26th March 2002 - Xi
New Roscoe - 28th February 2002 - Sparklehorse + Gemma Hayes
Cockpit - 31st October 2001
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