If you’ve ever seen Ellen and the Escapades live, you’ll know they’re full of energy, tight as a pair of spanks and, well, thrilling. Their songs are a whirlwind of pop folk and the voice of singer Ellen Smith is…
Album | Cate Le Bon – CYRK
John Cale, improvisational viola player in The Velvet Underground and one of the finest musicians to ever hold a Welsh passport, has one daughter. Cate Le Bon, a singer-songwriter from Wales, is not that daughter. However, imagine for a moment…
Album | Marthas & Arthurs – The Hit World of…Marthas & Arthurs
Marthas and Arthurs sound exactly like you’d expect them to. Well, as long as your basing your preconceptions on their name, and not on their CVs. If we told you two of them used to make electro-noise, then you’d have…
News | Emmy The Great, Lucy Rose added to Truck Festival line-up
Emmy The Great has been added to the line-up for the Truck Festival, which will already feature The Temper Trap, Mystery Jets, Villagers, and The Low Anthem among many others. Emmy, who played at Hill Farm in 2008 and 2006,…
Guest playlist | 8 undead songs by Joe Innes
I once watched a programme about the making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Actually, it was either a programme about Thriller or American Werewolf in London, though it doesn’t matter. Apparently, immediately after seeing American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson picked…
Album | Loudon Wainwright III – Older Than My Old Man Now
Loudon Wainwright’s 22nd album ‘Older Than My Old Man Now’ is another addition to his extensive folk-rock autobiography. At 65 some would say he’s not old, just older, but he’s at the point of feeling it. After the quite recent…