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Joan As Police Woman - The Old Market, Brighton 23.04.2018 Live Review
Joan Wasser brought her very particular brand of soulful music to a quiet corner of Brighton as she neared the end of the current tour. In support of her latest album release, 'Damned Devotion', earlier...
Review posted on 24th April 2018
Idles - Ramsgate Music Hall 12.04.2018 Live Review
Touted as an alternative to much that is wrong with the world, the antithesis of reality TV generated celebrity and the turgid, monotonous, boring and fake, Idles want to 'work hard' and give you an...
Review posted on 17th April 2018
The Vaccines - Combat Sports Album Review
The Vaccines make a welcome return with their fourth album in seven years, and first in three, with the release of their latest record 'Combat Sports'. After the odd hiccup and wavering trajectory along the...
Review posted on 12th April 2018
Public Service Broadcasting - The Hall By The Sea, Dreamland, Margate 8.4.2018 Live Review
From the summit of the world to the ominous realities of the war room, through the vastness of space and into the mining shafts of Wales, Public Service Broadcasting have strived to inform, educate and...
Review posted on 10th April 2018
Gwenno - Ramsgate Music Hall 17.03.2018 Live Review
Kent took quite a big hit from the first bout of snow, courtesy of The Beast From The East, so when its mini mate hit this weekend many plans were cancelled or at least disrupted....
Review posted on 21st March 2018
Baloji - 137 Avenue Kaniama Album Review
Belguim's Baloji's stardom is clearly on the rise with the release of his fourth full-length solo album. Fusing a blend of soul, funk, jazz, afro beats, hip-hop and spoken word, Baloji offers up a largely...
Review posted on 15th March 2018
Tom McRae - Revelation, Ashford 9.03.2018 Live Review
'I told myself that I would never dress in black and stand in front of a slightly bored congregation in church', was how Tom McRae described the situation he found himself in as he performed...
Review posted on 13th March 2018
Polica & Stargaze - Music For The Long Emergency Album Review
Although gleaning some of its initial inspiration from a 2005 book, 'The Long Emergency' by Howard Kunstler, this collaboration feels less like a soundtrack than a concept album. Kunstler is mapping out a future where...
Review posted on 15th February 2018
Ezra Furman - The Quarterhouse, Folkestone 10.02.2018 Live Review
The day after his latest album release and three months ahead of him returning to play in venues up to ten times the size of tonight's feels like the opportune moment to come and see...
Review posted on 12th February 2018
The Damned - Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone 6.2.2018 Live Review
The last time I saw The Damned play live was on a Summer's day some years ago(!) in August at Brockwell Park in London. The crowd of mainly teenagers and twenty-somethings had come out to...
Review posted on 8th February 2018
Joan As Police Woman - Damned Devotion Album Review
Joan As Police Woman's latest album release 'Damned Devotion' sees the lyrically adroit soulstress delivering her best work in years. That's not to say she's been off form or put out some questionable material, it...
Review posted on 6th February 2018
Poppy Ackroyd - Resolve Album Review
Music never ceases to amaze me and I hope it never does. There are pivotal moments that hold firm in your head; game changers. The first time you hear Elizabeth Fraser sing a note, a...
Review posted on 30th January 2018
Frank Turner - The Booking Hall, Dover 19.01.2018 Live Review
Frank Turner has been to Dover many times before, he's even "got pi**ed in the pub next to the (Dover Priory) train station", but he's never played for an audience here. For gig 2,128, Frank...
Review posted on 22nd January 2018
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus Album Review
There is no real need to give you a spoiler alert here, you've no doubt already clocked the stars accompanying the banner headline of this review, but I knew I was probably going to love...
Review posted on 20th January 2018
First Aid Kit - Ruins Album Review
It's very nearly eight years since the release of First Aid Kit's fully formed debut album 'The Big Black And The Blue', and just over three and a half since their biggest selling record to...
Review posted on 18th January 2018
Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? - Jazzbelle 1984/1988 Album Review
Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? are full of the same boundless energy and enthusiasm with the release their sophomore album, 'Jazzbelle 1984/1988'. Their second album, following up 2015's 'Teenage Sweetheart', is...
Review posted on 15th January 2018
Will Varley - Spirit Of Minnie Album Review
Will Varley's fifth album sees a step change in terms of delivery in more ways than one. Having seemingly tired of the odd comic ditty (you'll find nothing approaching 'Self Checkout Shuffle' or 'A Monkey...
Review posted on 9th January 2018
Frank Turner - Songbook Album Review
2017 marks ten years since the release of Frank Turner's debut solo album 'Sleep Is For The Week'. A timely point then to look back and assess the work of one of our most prolific...
Review posted on 21st November 2017
Howie Payne - Mountain Album Review
The Stands former frontman Howie Payne returns this week with only his second solo album proper since the split of his Liverpool based band in 2005. Having kept the company of some of the early...
Review posted on 26th October 2017
The Dears - Brighton's The Haunt 6.10.17 Live Review
It's been a while since I've gone to a gig where I could've counted the audience. Whilst I was a little surprised that The Dears had not sold out The Haunt, it did make for...
Review posted on 23rd October 2017
By The Sea Festival 2017 - Festival Review
Now in its third year, and most definitely at home, By The Sea festival returned to Margate in glorious style. Having surely established itself as Kent's premier music festival, By The Sea once again upped...
Review posted on 10th October 2017
Benjamin Clementine - I Tell A Fly Album Review
Two years since Benjamin Clementine won the Mercury prize for his debut album, 'At Least For Now', he makes a welcome return with his follow up, 'I Tell A Fly'. Clementine's new eleven track album...
Review posted on 29th September 2017
By The Sea 2017 - Preview
By The Sea festival returns to Margate at the end of September for its third year. Over the course of three days alongside the heritage rides, candy floss stalls, 2p slots and just a stones...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 14th September 2017
Mt. Wolf Aetherlight Album Review
After an initial wave of critical acclaim following their 2012/2013 E.P's Mt. Wolf look set to melodically mesmerise all before them. Unfortunately for the remaining band members at the time, the then lead singer Kate...
Review posted on 8th August 2017
Slaves - Dreamland Amusement Park Live Review
It's been a whirlwind five years for Slaves. Having this week celebrated their first half decade with a one off gig at The Tunbridge Wells Forum where they recorded their first E.P, 'Sugar Coated Bitter...
Review posted on 26th July 2017
Elbow Forest Live 2017, Bedgebury National Pinetum Review
Surrounded by the twelve thousand tress of the stunningly beautiful Bedgebury Pinetum, and in front of the thousands that had come to hear them play, Elbow took to the stage just outside Royal Tunbridge Wells,...
Review posted on 19th June 2017
Camille - Oui Album Review
It is not without some degree of cliché(!) that we generally come to find French musical excellence. Daft Punk, Air, MC Solaar etc etc; they're all blessed with effortless cool, a French chic that goes...
Review posted on 15th June 2017
Gorillaz - Humanz Album Review
Seven years might seem a long time between albums, however, if your two creative protagonists (Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett) have somewhat of a major falling out in the interim, one of them reforms their...
Review posted on 31st May 2017
Maximo Park - Dreamland, Margate, Kent 27.05.17 Live Review
Following the release of Maximo Park's sixth studio album, 'Risk To Exist', almost a month ago, and just ahead of a heavy schedule of festival dates, the band ushered in a new season of thrills...
Review posted on 30th May 2017
Margate Wonderland Dreamland 2017 Review
Following a £25Million investment, Dreamland Amusement Park re-launched over bank holiday weekend to the delight of the many who passed through the gates. With new rides, a new layout, new bars and a new stage...
Review posted on 30th May 2017
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