Rotten Scoundrels-Crash Landings-Blatoidea – review
Reports of the death of punk in Bournemouth may have been greatly exaggerated it seemsIt continues to be a mystery to me in these times of indiscriminate bombing of civilians, demonisation of entire...
View ArticleDeltorers + Caravaggio at Chaplins – Review
Right well this isn’t going to go well is it?It's a Thursday Night, it's wet,cold and the Deltorers are playing a dingy basement in Boscombe. How much fun does that sound? Well dear reader you'd be...
View ArticleVillanovas-Jack Grace – review
I billed this one as a pre-christmas treat and I wasn’t to be disappointed.In what would turn out to be my last gig of the year, the four acts on an impressive bill would prove to be a wonderful end to...
View ArticleLarmer Tree Breakthrough awards 2016
The now annual tradition of The Larmer Tree breakthrough awards has a habit of unearthing hidden gems and this year’s edition was no different.The Breakthrough award is a method of finding the best of...
View ArticleA festival worth supporting
It's officially summer, it's hot, it's dry - why not get yourself along to a properly worthwhile festival? It's not hard for readers to find examples of stupidly priced food, immense charges for beer,...
View ArticleLarmer Tree – Saturday
So Saturday dawns and we've got The Urban Pioneers, Gabrielle Aplin, Calexico and stuff
View Article10 random questions- Palms and Pelicans
10 questions chosen at random to test Mattea from them Palms and Pelicans In the very first of a new and possibly short-lived series the smashing Mattea McKinnon volunteers to be the first victim. So...
View ArticleEndea-Courtesans – Review
Occasionally you get to see a band at a festival that makes you think 'hmm they're interesting'...Last night at the anvil we had three Sometimes it's easy to forget how lucky we are to have excellent...
View ArticleSound of Summer competition – review
A fine night with 6 exceptional bands and our very own Soulhole run out the winners - what a result. The place - O'Neills in Wardour Street, Soho The time - about 8.06 The event - The O'Neills Sound of...
View Article10 Random Questions – Endea
In an enduring effort to make sure no band ever talk to us again we've forced sick local rockers Endea to answer 10 random questions Yes indeed you may have thought that our ill thought out series 10...
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