A Night With… The Duke Spirit (interview / live review / feature)
@ Koko, Camden, London 25/3/08 The Duke Spirit never seemed to get the attention they deserved first time around with their debut LP ‘Cuts Across The Land’. Three years later, they’ve gone all soulful and have consolidated their sound with their equally powerful but more wide-ranging second album, ‘Neptune’. High time we had a nice, [...]
-->Elle Milano – Interview
The name is misleading: Elle Milano is no willowy raven haired songstress, nor someone gracing the pages of Vogue, Tatler and Hello. ELLE MILANO is a band, a three piece now based in Brighton but formed at Leicester De Montfort University in the winter of 2004. They’re debut single is just out and the album’s [...]
-->¡Forward, Russia! – ‘Life Processes’ (album review)
Every so often we get a wake up call. A record that pulls apart everything else. That exposes the superficial inane junk we are so acceptingly surrounded by. A benchmark. ¡Forward, Russia!’s debut was one such record. If you don’t own ‘Give Me A Wall’, buy it. Borrow it. Or like so many ‘music lovers’ [...]
-->Elle Milano – ‘Acres of Dead Space Cadets’ (album review)
I was slightly troubled by the press release that accompanied ‘Acres of Dead Space Cadets’. I couldn’t help but feel that once again, I was being spoon-fed the same stale procession of garish superlatives cobbled together to procure favour from the most astute of British rock fans. However, I am pleased to announce that, for [...]
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