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Interview: The Wonder Stuff
'Twas a blustery wet night on Sunday 12th March 2006 when I forced my way into a packed out Cockpit in Leeds, to interview not only a legend, to all self respecting indie lovers, but also a rather splendid chap! In the immortal words of Take That would The Wonder Stuff be back for good?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6640/ | 2,901 hits
'Twas a blustery wet night on Sunday 12th March 2006 when I forced my way into a packed out Cockpit in Leeds, to interview not only a legend, to all self respecting indie lovers, but also a rather splendid chap! In the immortal words of Take That would The Wonder Stuff be back for good?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6640/ | 2,901 hits
CD Review: The Wonder Stuff - Bile Chant
Perhaps best known for the wonderful "Size Of A Cow" and their collaboration with Vic Reeves, The Wonder Stuff were a strongly supported band in their day.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3662/ | 376 hits
Perhaps best known for the wonderful "Size Of A Cow" and their collaboration with Vic Reeves, The Wonder Stuff were a strongly supported band in their day.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3662/ | 376 hits
CD Review: Ske - Life, Death, Happiness & Stuff
OK, this is getting ridiculous... yet another Icelandic band ventures down south for some loving. Ske (which means 'happening' in Icelandic, but 'slut' in Japanese) are a collection of writers and musicians that work in the fields of theatre music, film music and TV ad jingles that decided to make an album of guitar based pop songs.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3111/ | 534 hits
OK, this is getting ridiculous... yet another Icelandic band ventures down south for some loving. Ske (which means 'happening' in Icelandic, but 'slut' in Japanese) are a collection of writers and musicians that work in the fields of theatre music, film music and TV ad jingles that decided to make an album of guitar based pop songs.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3111/ | 534 hits
Live Review: The Wonder Stuff
It's time for bleeding the money cow dry again, with The Wonder Stuff back in the game. There's the cheeky Miles Hunt, the rocker Malcolm Treece, quiet bassist Mark McCarthy, and drummer Andres Karu hidden behind excellent fiddle player Erica Nockalls, who has good posture and is probably classically trained.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7732/ | 397 hits
It's time for bleeding the money cow dry again, with The Wonder Stuff back in the game. There's the cheeky Miles Hunt, the rocker Malcolm Treece, quiet bassist Mark McCarthy, and drummer Andres Karu hidden behind excellent fiddle player Erica Nockalls, who has good posture and is probably classically trained.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7732/ | 397 hits
CD Review: FineApple - The Good Stuff
In this world I dislike a lot of things: Broccoli, Carrots, Turnips and ska-punk. All of them make me want to puke my guts out so I was obviously delighted to receive a skatastic CD in the form of Fine Apple's "Good Stuff".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2526/ | 579 hits
In this world I dislike a lot of things: Broccoli, Carrots, Turnips and ska-punk. All of them make me want to puke my guts out so I was obviously delighted to receive a skatastic CD in the form of Fine Apple's "Good Stuff".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2526/ | 579 hits
Band Profile: The Wonder Stuff
Band profile for the band The Wonder Stuff
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5711/ | 192 hits
Band profile for the band The Wonder Stuff
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5711/ | 192 hits
User Article: Music I have bought this week...
Here's some of the stuff I bought this week...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6553/ | 104 hits
Here's some of the stuff I bought this week...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6553/ | 104 hits
CD Review: The Pocket Gods - Lost
There are six tracks of home-made music-like stuff here. Track 6 is called "Danube" and it lasts for 17 minutes and 28 seconds.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2474/ | 267 hits
There are six tracks of home-made music-like stuff here. Track 6 is called "Danube" and it lasts for 17 minutes and 28 seconds.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2474/ | 267 hits
CD Review: Umlaut - Untitled
There must be something in the water down in Derby, as Umlaut recorded this three track EP down in the mid(ish)lands.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3858/ | 511 hits
There must be something in the water down in Derby, as Umlaut recorded this three track EP down in the mid(ish)lands.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3858/ | 511 hits
CD Review: Orange Fall - Orange Fall
Rock? Orange Fall from Swansea take the pure form and do it sharp justice. Searing and original guitar licks and falsetto harmonies with lumber punching drum and bass.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/441/ | 98 hits
Rock? Orange Fall from Swansea take the pure form and do it sharp justice. Searing and original guitar licks and falsetto harmonies with lumber punching drum and bass.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/441/ | 98 hits
CD Review: ODi - Crawl
Never judge a book by its cover? Can the same be said of judging a band by their biog? Sadly in ODi's case the answer is no.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8030/ | 166 hits
Never judge a book by its cover? Can the same be said of judging a band by their biog? Sadly in ODi's case the answer is no.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8030/ | 166 hits
Band Profile: Naked Flames
We play a mixture of rock, heavy metal, acoustic music, comedy and other stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2713/ | 637 hits
We play a mixture of rock, heavy metal, acoustic music, comedy and other stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2713/ | 637 hits
Live Review: Defenestration
Named after the act of chucking things out of windows and with an average age of 19, these Kerrang! faves certainly know how to scream a tent down.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1209/ | 86 hits
Named after the act of chucking things out of windows and with an average age of 19, these Kerrang! faves certainly know how to scream a tent down.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1209/ | 86 hits
CD Review: Biffy Clyro - The Ideal Height
Every turning this week - Biffy Clyro are amazing this... Biffy Clyro were incredible that... Damn good marketing, since before this week I'd never heard of them.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/516/ | 226 hits
Every turning this week - Biffy Clyro are amazing this... Biffy Clyro were incredible that... Damn good marketing, since before this week I'd never heard of them.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/516/ | 226 hits
Interview: From Autumn To Ashes
Daniel Powell talks with Long Island post-hardcore band From Autumn To Ashes when they play as part of Live At Leeds 2007
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8572/ | 4,397 hits
Daniel Powell talks with Long Island post-hardcore band From Autumn To Ashes when they play as part of Live At Leeds 2007
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8572/ | 4,397 hits
CD Review: Whitehouse Blues - Untitled
This is chilled nearly-dance music with some real and some ambient stuff mixing up a loving recreation of someone's Summer of love on a gentle acid come down some years ago.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/49/ | 172 hits
This is chilled nearly-dance music with some real and some ambient stuff mixing up a loving recreation of someone's Summer of love on a gentle acid come down some years ago.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/49/ | 172 hits
CD Review: Seven Hours - Blue
Did you ever notice how much Bradford is like Los Angeles? No, neither did I, but BD's Seven Hours propel me into the dark and dirty underground blues bars of LA's cinematic masterpiece 'Swingers' with a "You're so the money baby" and a blast of EA Hockey.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3897/ | 313 hits
Did you ever notice how much Bradford is like Los Angeles? No, neither did I, but BD's Seven Hours propel me into the dark and dirty underground blues bars of LA's cinematic masterpiece 'Swingers' with a "You're so the money baby" and a blast of EA Hockey.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3897/ | 313 hits
CD Review: The Wow - Come Here EP
The Wow featuring ex-members from Spy vs. Spy and Future Adventures ... blah blah blah ... to be honest I don't care who they were in, I hate this ex-members of whoever rubbish.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/636/ | 194 hits
The Wow featuring ex-members from Spy vs. Spy and Future Adventures ... blah blah blah ... to be honest I don't care who they were in, I hate this ex-members of whoever rubbish.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/636/ | 194 hits
CD Review: Nylon Pylon - Foot in Mouth
"Foot in Mouth" is a fine pop tune with a relentless four to the bar disco floor slapping whump of a beat-box noise.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/566/ | 734 hits
"Foot in Mouth" is a fine pop tune with a relentless four to the bar disco floor slapping whump of a beat-box noise.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/566/ | 734 hits
CD Review: RSJ - The Day After
Down tuned guitars and bass - relentless drumming, raging eclectic vocals. I love this EP. First song "Glutton for Punishment" kicks off with a clean sounding guitar chord into some serious riffage.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2471/ | 124 hits
Down tuned guitars and bass - relentless drumming, raging eclectic vocals. I love this EP. First song "Glutton for Punishment" kicks off with a clean sounding guitar chord into some serious riffage.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2471/ | 124 hits
Band Profile: Liz Reynolds
I'm a singer songwriter, born and bred in Leeds. The style is kind of folk I suppose, generally just laidback acoustic-ness, I am sure I have my influences but I listen to so much contrasting stuff there has to be loads, too many to list.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11388/ | 48 hits
I'm a singer songwriter, born and bred in Leeds. The style is kind of folk I suppose, generally just laidback acoustic-ness, I am sure I have my influences but I listen to so much contrasting stuff there has to be loads, too many to list.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11388/ | 48 hits
CD Review: Pill Box Hat - Sandown Road
This is straightforward simple soft rock from somewhere in the early 1970s. Three tracks, three slightly different grooves with an identifiable consistency.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3/ | 197 hits
This is straightforward simple soft rock from somewhere in the early 1970s. Three tracks, three slightly different grooves with an identifiable consistency.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3/ | 197 hits
CD Review: Sungover - Convoy / Nixon
I wrote many notes on Sungover. They come from "south east London". They try very hard and they do funk-lite jazz-lounge could-be-fashionable stuff with some wit and occasional inspiration.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2450/ | 174 hits
I wrote many notes on Sungover. They come from "south east London". They try very hard and they do funk-lite jazz-lounge could-be-fashionable stuff with some wit and occasional inspiration.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2450/ | 174 hits
CD Review: Little Japanese Toy - Calling Disused Numbers
This is a very nice single from the Star Harbour label. It tucks right into the New Art Underground as if Chicago or Montreal were just up the road.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/272/ | 160 hits
This is a very nice single from the Star Harbour label. It tucks right into the New Art Underground as if Chicago or Montreal were just up the road.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/272/ | 160 hits
CD Review: If I Were King - Untitled
The problem with having seven people in your band, all wanting a bit of the musical pie and having their own bit of limelight, means that unless your influences are sturdily in place and stay there, everything can come across a little irregular for the listener.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7385/ | 172 hits
The problem with having seven people in your band, all wanting a bit of the musical pie and having their own bit of limelight, means that unless your influences are sturdily in place and stay there, everything can come across a little irregular for the listener.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7385/ | 172 hits
CD Review: Mama Scuba - Sweet Girl
Industrial strength visceral wailing and howling with a big bad bass of doom all over. Sharp edges and a wisp of a tune with its back against the railings.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/367/ | 210 hits
Industrial strength visceral wailing and howling with a big bad bass of doom all over. Sharp edges and a wisp of a tune with its back against the railings.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/367/ | 210 hits
Live Review: Milburn + The Touch
I like Milburn a lot. They're one of the reasons I started reviewing because you never know when you'll be sent a gem of a CD to cover that you just absolutely love.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3908/ | 696 hits
I like Milburn a lot. They're one of the reasons I started reviewing because you never know when you'll be sent a gem of a CD to cover that you just absolutely love.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3908/ | 696 hits
CD Review: Cypress Hill - What's Your Number
I bet the remaining members of The Clash are laughing their asses off on a regular basis. Not only do they still have an army of loyal fans after all this time, but pretty much all their more groovy stuff gets sampled.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2452/ | 1,808 hits
I bet the remaining members of The Clash are laughing their asses off on a regular basis. Not only do they still have an army of loyal fans after all this time, but pretty much all their more groovy stuff gets sampled.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2452/ | 1,808 hits
CD Review: Kasino - Fearless
Here we have ten diamond white 80s pop songs with mighty swirls of darker third millennium awareness.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/405/ | 677 hits
Here we have ten diamond white 80s pop songs with mighty swirls of darker third millennium awareness.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/405/ | 677 hits
CD Review: Electric Six - Senor Smoke
There's a telling moment about two minutes into the opening track on this album when Electric Six's singer Dick Valentine announces, seemingly without any hint of irony, "Mr President, I don't like you/'Cos you don't know how to ROCK!".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3605/ | 1,278 hits
There's a telling moment about two minutes into the opening track on this album when Electric Six's singer Dick Valentine announces, seemingly without any hint of irony, "Mr President, I don't like you/'Cos you don't know how to ROCK!".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3605/ | 1,278 hits
Band Profile: Hulafrau
Nick Copland - vocals, keyboards, shouting and hitting stuff, Paul Farago - bass, trousers, Simon Wood - keyboards, trombone, knob-twiddling.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4141/ | 227 hits
Nick Copland - vocals, keyboards, shouting and hitting stuff, Paul Farago - bass, trousers, Simon Wood - keyboards, trombone, knob-twiddling.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4141/ | 227 hits
CD Review: The Hoarse - The way we bring it down
Where The Hoarse bring it down is simply to your local pub jam night. With a proficient wibbly blues guitarist and armed with a bucket load of tried, tested and generally worn out pub-rock clichés this is the stuff the 12 pint fat bloke at the bar will tell you is the best band you've ever heard.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2521/ | 350 hits
Where The Hoarse bring it down is simply to your local pub jam night. With a proficient wibbly blues guitarist and armed with a bucket load of tried, tested and generally worn out pub-rock clichés this is the stuff the 12 pint fat bloke at the bar will tell you is the best band you've ever heard.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2521/ | 350 hits
CD Review: The Scaramanga Six - The Poison Pen
This comes over from the dark side of The Pixies to swirl around with a tasty bit of fairground keyboard and dizzying petrol fumes from The Scaramanga Six's earlier "Pressure Cage".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2418/ | 398 hits
This comes over from the dark side of The Pixies to swirl around with a tasty bit of fairground keyboard and dizzying petrol fumes from The Scaramanga Six's earlier "Pressure Cage".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2418/ | 398 hits
CD Review: Mitchell - Untitled
Five guys, no musicians, one demo CD, six tracks. Not very promising is it? It's some kind of rock from somewhere near Scunthorpe.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/451/ | 80 hits
Five guys, no musicians, one demo CD, six tracks. Not very promising is it? It's some kind of rock from somewhere near Scunthorpe.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/451/ | 80 hits
Live Review: Jay Reatard + Lovvers + The Old Romantic Killer Band + The Despondents
The 3 Despondents play rock'n'roll punk like they remember it. Singer's Dead Boys T-Shirt is surely older than him.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10195/ | 312 hits
The 3 Despondents play rock'n'roll punk like they remember it. Singer's Dead Boys T-Shirt is surely older than him.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10195/ | 312 hits
Interview: Daniel Fell
As lead singer, main songwriter and all around head honcho of The Argonauts, Daniel Fell is now going solo. He's playing in Leeds at Carpe Diem on the 12th February, so Gavin Miller caught up with the man himself to have a little chat about all things musical...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3493/ | 783 hits
As lead singer, main songwriter and all around head honcho of The Argonauts, Daniel Fell is now going solo. He's playing in Leeds at Carpe Diem on the 12th February, so Gavin Miller caught up with the man himself to have a little chat about all things musical...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3493/ | 783 hits
Band Profile: Don't Look Down
We're Don't Look Down and we've been together about a year. We're from Bradford. It's hard to categorise our music because we're not exactly owt in particular so we'll leave that up to you.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9319/ | 172 hits
We're Don't Look Down and we've been together about a year. We're from Bradford. It's hard to categorise our music because we're not exactly owt in particular so we'll leave that up to you.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9319/ | 172 hits
Live Review: Brand New + The Subways + Gogol Bordello + The Long Blondes + The Sounds
So my day started off heading to the NME stage to see up and coming Swedish bans The Sounds. Their blend of electro-rock goes down very well with the crowd and their set soon begins to attract a number of passers by into the tent.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8783/ | 282 hits
So my day started off heading to the NME stage to see up and coming Swedish bans The Sounds. Their blend of electro-rock goes down very well with the crowd and their set soon begins to attract a number of passers by into the tent.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8783/ | 282 hits
CD Review: Afternoon - Untitled
Afternoon are new to me. But experience has its mitts all over this accomplished demo. Learning that they recently did support for Oceansize at Joseph's Well made me even sicker at having missed that gig.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/114/ | 128 hits
Afternoon are new to me. But experience has its mitts all over this accomplished demo. Learning that they recently did support for Oceansize at Joseph's Well made me even sicker at having missed that gig.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/114/ | 128 hits
CD Review: The Koreans - Machine Code
There's a scratchy fizzed up modemic start on the black notes of a Yamaha PS something or other. Then a breathily credible vocal track.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/571/ | 237 hits
There's a scratchy fizzed up modemic start on the black notes of a Yamaha PS something or other. Then a breathily credible vocal track.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/571/ | 237 hits
Interview: Elliot Minor
Daniel Powell talks to York's Elliot Minor as they begin their tour at Leeds' Cockpit venue.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8475/ | 37,359 hits
Daniel Powell talks to York's Elliot Minor as they begin their tour at Leeds' Cockpit venue.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8475/ | 37,359 hits
News Article: Wrath Records celebrate their second birthday...
Wrath Records, Leeds' most prolific and hellbent label, is celebrating another milestone as it becomes two years old!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2239/ | 72 hits
Wrath Records, Leeds' most prolific and hellbent label, is celebrating another milestone as it becomes two years old!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2239/ | 72 hits
CD Review: This Holiday Life - The Fallout
This Holiday Life are almost too knowingly good. Only an American band, and a Californian band at that, could be so unashamedly mellow and well produced, while singing such nifty songs with such passion and style.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2385/ | 432 hits
This Holiday Life are almost too knowingly good. Only an American band, and a Californian band at that, could be so unashamedly mellow and well produced, while singing such nifty songs with such passion and style.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2385/ | 432 hits
CD Review: Farming Incident - The Swine Fever Diaries
Farming Incident are still doing their own experimental, art-rock thing. It's still lo-fi and it's still very strange.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/179/ | 123 hits
Farming Incident are still doing their own experimental, art-rock thing. It's still lo-fi and it's still very strange.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/179/ | 123 hits
News Article: Embrace to headline Guildford Festival
Embrace have been confirmed to headline the first day at this year's Guildford Festival, which takes place between 14th - 16th July.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6664/ | 106 hits
Embrace have been confirmed to headline the first day at this year's Guildford Festival, which takes place between 14th - 16th July.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6664/ | 106 hits
CD Review: Franz Ferdinand - s/t
With a top three single (Take Me Out) there inevitably comes "hype" and with that greatest of all evils you can be assured of quite a few things: half the population loves you because you are the next best thing since the last; half the population hates you for the same reason; there's huge expectation put on your debut album and you're guaranteed some classic journalistic bandwagon jumping - for instance if you have read previously that Franz Ferdinand sound like The Strokes that is simply cobblers.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2374/ | 412 hits
With a top three single (Take Me Out) there inevitably comes "hype" and with that greatest of all evils you can be assured of quite a few things: half the population loves you because you are the next best thing since the last; half the population hates you for the same reason; there's huge expectation put on your debut album and you're guaranteed some classic journalistic bandwagon jumping - for instance if you have read previously that Franz Ferdinand sound like The Strokes that is simply cobblers.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2374/ | 412 hits
CD Review: Superelectric - Music For Joyriding
"10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0-Do It!". The 16 second countdown of Go! is complete. Having listened to the Superelectric demo CD (absolutely amazing) and seen the live show a couple of times I could see a different direction on their free CD, Music For Joyriding.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/258/ | 127 hits
"10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0-Do It!". The 16 second countdown of Go! is complete. Having listened to the Superelectric demo CD (absolutely amazing) and seen the live show a couple of times I could see a different direction on their free CD, Music For Joyriding.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/258/ | 127 hits
CD Review: Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
The achingly hip Vivian Girls are back with their second album 'Everything Goes Wrong' on In the Red records, which is really churning out some great stuff at the moment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11137/ | 169 hits
The achingly hip Vivian Girls are back with their second album 'Everything Goes Wrong' on In the Red records, which is really churning out some great stuff at the moment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11137/ | 169 hits
CD Review: Farming Incident - The Flute of Shame
Collectors' item Farming Incident material without a pop hook to its name. Driving, insistent, nagging.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/366/ | 182 hits
Collectors' item Farming Incident material without a pop hook to its name. Driving, insistent, nagging.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/366/ | 182 hits
CD Review: Amorius - Untitled
Amorius aim these songs directly at radio play standards - and smack them dead centre. The two tracks (taken from the commercially available four track EP "Transparency") are very smooth, carefully made and well balanced.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/18/ | 106 hits
Amorius aim these songs directly at radio play standards - and smack them dead centre. The two tracks (taken from the commercially available four track EP "Transparency") are very smooth, carefully made and well balanced.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/18/ | 106 hits
CD Review: Ric Neale - Hasn't Heard of You Either
Ric Neale does faultless pro-style songs with a contemporary r&b flavour. Great voice, slick sidemen and a warm jazz inclination add up to a luxurious journey through eight memorable tunes.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2852/ | 366 hits
Ric Neale does faultless pro-style songs with a contemporary r&b flavour. Great voice, slick sidemen and a warm jazz inclination add up to a luxurious journey through eight memorable tunes.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2852/ | 366 hits
CD Review: Oceansize - Relapse
When reading through Oceansize's 3 year history it's hard to ignore the vast number of "these guys are about to make it big" moments.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/457/ | 270 hits
When reading through Oceansize's 3 year history it's hard to ignore the vast number of "these guys are about to make it big" moments.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/457/ | 270 hits
CD Review: Parka - Better Anyway
Parka's third single "Better Anyway" is another fast paced, Madchester influenced, 3 minute indie-pop song.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9471/ | 107 hits
Parka's third single "Better Anyway" is another fast paced, Madchester influenced, 3 minute indie-pop song.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9471/ | 107 hits
CD Review: Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Where to start with Frightened Rabbit? Their wonderfully lo-fi 2006 debut 'Sing The Greys,' despite being heard by few, ranks as one of the most impressive debuts of the decade, and their glorious sophomore record, 'The Midnight Organ Fight' is a stunning and fantastically emotional album, proving the band's worth as one of the best bands to come out of Scotland in recent times.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11449/ | 180 hits
Where to start with Frightened Rabbit? Their wonderfully lo-fi 2006 debut 'Sing The Greys,' despite being heard by few, ranks as one of the most impressive debuts of the decade, and their glorious sophomore record, 'The Midnight Organ Fight' is a stunning and fantastically emotional album, proving the band's worth as one of the best bands to come out of Scotland in recent times.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11449/ | 180 hits
CD Review: Samsa - Untitled
Following on from a whole album full of stuff back in 2002, Samsa are back in the hunt with a three track EP that comfortably fulfills the promise of the best stuff on that first expedition.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/376/ | 201 hits
Following on from a whole album full of stuff back in 2002, Samsa are back in the hunt with a three track EP that comfortably fulfills the promise of the best stuff on that first expedition.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/376/ | 201 hits
CD Review: The Alamo - Hello Venus!
It's fresh, it's loud. It's the Alamo. Four bars, four beats, four songs, four kids. And they're doing a great enthusiastic blast of natural rock with no frills and no attempt to imitate anyone except themselves.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/318/ | 180 hits
It's fresh, it's loud. It's the Alamo. Four bars, four beats, four songs, four kids. And they're doing a great enthusiastic blast of natural rock with no frills and no attempt to imitate anyone except themselves.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/318/ | 180 hits
Live Review: Wire
You have to approach these things with caution. Do we ask too much? These guys can't have the same fire in their belly and why should we expect them too, besides, I'd heard and readily believed that Wire's own bloody mindedness means they only play new material with only an occasional foray into the 'earlier, funnier' stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10012/ | 186 hits
You have to approach these things with caution. Do we ask too much? These guys can't have the same fire in their belly and why should we expect them too, besides, I'd heard and readily believed that Wire's own bloody mindedness means they only play new material with only an occasional foray into the 'earlier, funnier' stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10012/ | 186 hits
CD Review: Ludwig - Snake District
Ludwig sound somewhere between Orbital, Boards of Canada, and, well, the rest of the Warp back catalogue to be honest.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2893/ | 234 hits
Ludwig sound somewhere between Orbital, Boards of Canada, and, well, the rest of the Warp back catalogue to be honest.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2893/ | 234 hits
CD Review: Ten Dollar Fist - Keep Control
Ten Dollar Fist are University boys giving it a go from a Wakefield HQ. There's a cheerful whiff of Bill and Ted before they went back in time to learn to play, and a jumbo slice of Wayne and Garth posturing.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/109/ | 140 hits
Ten Dollar Fist are University boys giving it a go from a Wakefield HQ. There's a cheerful whiff of Bill and Ted before they went back in time to learn to play, and a jumbo slice of Wayne and Garth posturing.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/109/ | 140 hits
Live Review: Oceansize
Although the number of Oceansize shows in Leeds can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, they are not all new faces to these parts having spent pre-band time in the heart of Leeds 6 before their formation over the hills in Lancashire.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/806/ | 136 hits
Although the number of Oceansize shows in Leeds can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, they are not all new faces to these parts having spent pre-band time in the heart of Leeds 6 before their formation over the hills in Lancashire.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/806/ | 136 hits
CD Review: AM - Drive Thru The Center
AM are a three piece rock band from Brooklyn. They settle the question of whether all Americans are cool once and for all.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/480/ | 185 hits
AM are a three piece rock band from Brooklyn. They settle the question of whether all Americans are cool once and for all.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/480/ | 185 hits
CD Review: Impure - 42 Miles In This Direction
This first stab from Impure is everything to be expected from ones so young and nothing more: ideas, attempted emulation, poor musicianship, ambition, and naivety.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2774/ | 218 hits
This first stab from Impure is everything to be expected from ones so young and nothing more: ideas, attempted emulation, poor musicianship, ambition, and naivety.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2774/ | 218 hits
Live Review: The Alamo
Wow, what a great young band. Fronted by the vest wearing Adam Sweeney, The Alamo churn out fast and furious spiky powerpunk riffs with a couple of memorable hooks which kick this evening off nicely.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1259/ | 161 hits
Wow, what a great young band. Fronted by the vest wearing Adam Sweeney, The Alamo churn out fast and furious spiky powerpunk riffs with a couple of memorable hooks which kick this evening off nicely.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1259/ | 161 hits
CD Review: Lovechild - Untitled
Lovechild have self belief and ambition. They've sent their stuff from Belfast to Leeds, and they're determined to get a wider audience.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2386/ | 209 hits
Lovechild have self belief and ambition. They've sent their stuff from Belfast to Leeds, and they're determined to get a wider audience.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2386/ | 209 hits
Live Review: Giant Drag + Foreign Born + Joff Whitten
Joff Whitten is a rather talented boy: a solo performer he mixes an acoustic guitar, a bass and wistful vocals, throws them all into a loop, swaps instruments, generates layer-upon-layer and comes out with some rather intriguing folk-pop.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6680/ | 1,064 hits
Joff Whitten is a rather talented boy: a solo performer he mixes an acoustic guitar, a bass and wistful vocals, throws them all into a loop, swaps instruments, generates layer-upon-layer and comes out with some rather intriguing folk-pop.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6680/ | 1,064 hits
Band Profile: Larry The News Guy
I'm Larry The News Guy. I'm also known as Loz Budd, Laurence Budd, and Laurence Edwin 'Bundle' Budd to my Dad.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10192/ | 94 hits
I'm Larry The News Guy. I'm also known as Loz Budd, Laurence Budd, and Laurence Edwin 'Bundle' Budd to my Dad.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10192/ | 94 hits
CD Review: The Bilderberg Group - I Knew You'd Know I'd Know You Know
The Bonzo Dog Band meet Martin Newell in experimental party spirits. This is Da Da puckishness at its merriest.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/37/ | 195 hits
The Bonzo Dog Band meet Martin Newell in experimental party spirits. This is Da Da puckishness at its merriest.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/37/ | 195 hits
CD Review: Oasis - Songbird
Liam Gallagher shows the world the side of him that so far only Nicole Appleton has been privvy to with this endearing little ballad.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/500/ | 307 hits
Liam Gallagher shows the world the side of him that so far only Nicole Appleton has been privvy to with this endearing little ballad.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/500/ | 307 hits
CD Review: Skint & Demoralised - The Thrill Of Thirty Seconds
The first thing on receiving the single I notice is the use of an Alan Ball & Billy Bremner image. Great stuff!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10183/ | 389 hits
The first thing on receiving the single I notice is the use of an Alan Ball & Billy Bremner image. Great stuff!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10183/ | 389 hits
Live Review: Milloy + A Death In The Family + The Labels + Above Them
Arriving early as I knew the small venue would be rammed, I am surprised that there is to be no live music until 8.30pm.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7536/ | 525 hits
Arriving early as I knew the small venue would be rammed, I am surprised that there is to be no live music until 8.30pm.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7536/ | 525 hits
CD Review: Sidearm - Graffitied Litter
Sidearm are an ambitious and adventurous bunch. This idea-rammed CD of three songs shouts out "gi's a gig!" in a loud and convincing voice.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/655/ | 114 hits
Sidearm are an ambitious and adventurous bunch. This idea-rammed CD of three songs shouts out "gi's a gig!" in a loud and convincing voice.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/655/ | 114 hits
CD Review: The Bronx - Shitty Future
The Bronx are back with their take on 80's hardcore and 70's punk. Creepy bass looms at the beginning, then it's covered by harmonised solid vocals by hard voices.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8104/ | 114 hits
The Bronx are back with their take on 80's hardcore and 70's punk. Creepy bass looms at the beginning, then it's covered by harmonised solid vocals by hard voices.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8104/ | 114 hits
CD Review: Unyson - Science Fiction
It's not often that I listen to a review CD as many times as this. Unyson's six track "Science Fiction" has some right good songs, played and sung with style and conviction.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/313/ | 154 hits
It's not often that I listen to a review CD as many times as this. Unyson's six track "Science Fiction" has some right good songs, played and sung with style and conviction.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/313/ | 154 hits
Band Profile: Going Backwards Forwards
We are four guys, three of which originally from Tadcaster, who formed a band in 2007 and have had changes in members over the past year but the final, current band members since March 2008.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10463/ | 72 hits
We are four guys, three of which originally from Tadcaster, who formed a band in 2007 and have had changes in members over the past year but the final, current band members since March 2008.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10463/ | 72 hits
CD Review: Robochrist - Untitled
That Chris from Catalyst is a multi-talented lad, and this is ace. Five tracks of... errr... "techno-metal" I suppose you'd call it.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/381/ | 327 hits
That Chris from Catalyst is a multi-talented lad, and this is ace. Five tracks of... errr... "techno-metal" I suppose you'd call it.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/381/ | 327 hits
Band Profile: Mhyst
THE BEGINNING At age 6, I started piano lessons and worked my way up to ABRSM Grade 8 at aged 15 with 142/150 marks, the highest in the country at the time.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10190/ | 69 hits
THE BEGINNING At age 6, I started piano lessons and worked my way up to ABRSM Grade 8 at aged 15 with 142/150 marks, the highest in the country at the time.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10190/ | 69 hits
Interview: Night Herons
This week I caught up with Leeds-Bradford 5 piece, Night Herons. Indie? Electro? They're not entirely sure themselves, which is what makes them so exciting...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11618/ | 339 hits
This week I caught up with Leeds-Bradford 5 piece, Night Herons. Indie? Electro? They're not entirely sure themselves, which is what makes them so exciting...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11618/ | 339 hits
CD Review: Nickelback - Someday
Mmmm chest hair and long blond locks. It's going to be hard to offer an unbiased review seeming as whenever I refer to them I have got into the habit of calling them Nickel-cack without even thinking.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/614/ | 499 hits
Mmmm chest hair and long blond locks. It's going to be hard to offer an unbiased review seeming as whenever I refer to them I have got into the habit of calling them Nickel-cack without even thinking.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/614/ | 499 hits
Live Review: thisGirl
Having got a support slot with this band, this was a perfect chance to check them out. The band play punk metal type stuff with mellow bits in between - a bit like Lost Prophets but not quite as heavy.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1014/ | 97 hits
Having got a support slot with this band, this was a perfect chance to check them out. The band play punk metal type stuff with mellow bits in between - a bit like Lost Prophets but not quite as heavy.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1014/ | 97 hits
Interview: Kava Kava
Victoria Holdsworth chats with Kava Kava main guy Pat Fulgoni.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7317/ | 397 hits
Victoria Holdsworth chats with Kava Kava main guy Pat Fulgoni.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7317/ | 397 hits
CD Review: Various Artists - Junction 47
This double CD is an awesome achievement. It is truly good stuff. By all reckoning, 18 different bands from one part of the country should make a complete pudding of an album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/57/ | 108 hits
This double CD is an awesome achievement. It is truly good stuff. By all reckoning, 18 different bands from one part of the country should make a complete pudding of an album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/57/ | 108 hits
CD Review: Nathan Burton - It's Hard To Sell Your Home
Not the most inspiring of song titles, unless you are struggling to sell your home and want a theme tune by which to suffer.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3592/ | 298 hits
Not the most inspiring of song titles, unless you are struggling to sell your home and want a theme tune by which to suffer.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3592/ | 298 hits
CD Review: The Tennessee Traincrash - Untitled
Yes!. It's very good. Panic over. Notes as follows: Magazine: is "Run, Run, Run" interfering with "Born to be Wild" up against a wall in a Leeds back lane.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/328/ | 217 hits
Yes!. It's very good. Panic over. Notes as follows: Magazine: is "Run, Run, Run" interfering with "Born to be Wild" up against a wall in a Leeds back lane.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/328/ | 217 hits
CD Review: The Caves - Polymorphic Light Eruption
The Caves second single release is an altogether rather jolly pleasant affair and is the kind of thing you'd put on the stereo to jump around to in a "Look I'm daft, me" manner to impress your embarrassed long suffering friends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3774/ | 243 hits
The Caves second single release is an altogether rather jolly pleasant affair and is the kind of thing you'd put on the stereo to jump around to in a "Look I'm daft, me" manner to impress your embarrassed long suffering friends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3774/ | 243 hits
CD Review: Wilt - Distortion
In their biography, Irish four-piece Wilt claim to be the emo REM, although I see neither as valid comparisons in their latest record "Distortion", which is a roller coaster of Americanised rock highs and lows that fits in well with the current music industry trends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/421/ | 192 hits
In their biography, Irish four-piece Wilt claim to be the emo REM, although I see neither as valid comparisons in their latest record "Distortion", which is a roller coaster of Americanised rock highs and lows that fits in well with the current music industry trends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/421/ | 192 hits
CD Review: Joan of Arc - In Rape Fantasy & Terror Sex We Trust
Joan of Arc's Tim Kinsella is one of those multiple-attached US artists who can sneak into the Leeds Fenton one May evening, en route from Paris to Dortmund via Glasgow and Manchester, and maybe 100 people know.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/560/ | 287 hits
Joan of Arc's Tim Kinsella is one of those multiple-attached US artists who can sneak into the Leeds Fenton one May evening, en route from Paris to Dortmund via Glasgow and Manchester, and maybe 100 people know.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/560/ | 287 hits
CD Review: The Ripps - Holiday
The Ripps sound like Supergrass but are so much more annoying and much less inventive. They sound like they'd be friends with The Kooks and all the other user-friendly J17-reader bullshit that's going on at the moment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8611/ | 108 hits
The Ripps sound like Supergrass but are so much more annoying and much less inventive. They sound like they'd be friends with The Kooks and all the other user-friendly J17-reader bullshit that's going on at the moment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8611/ | 108 hits
CD Review: Ten Seconds Of Chaos - Don't Cut Me Out
Within the limitations of full-on rock guitar-band music Ten Seconds of Chaos squeeze out every possibility to maximum effect.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2812/ | 594 hits
Within the limitations of full-on rock guitar-band music Ten Seconds of Chaos squeeze out every possibility to maximum effect.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2812/ | 594 hits
CD Review: Ridgevex - s/t
Not bad beginner stuff. But a long way from ready to roll up the slithering pile of shite that is modern popular music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/339/ | 433 hits
Not bad beginner stuff. But a long way from ready to roll up the slithering pile of shite that is modern popular music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/339/ | 433 hits
Live Review: Fuzz Light Years
Lead singer, Turner met the rest of the Fuzz whilst dancing at Trash. They thought she was cool - and indeed they were right.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1190/ | 92 hits
Lead singer, Turner met the rest of the Fuzz whilst dancing at Trash. They thought she was cool - and indeed they were right.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1190/ | 92 hits
Interview: The Boy Who Trapped The Sun
Joseph Seager chatted to Colin MacLeod, the man behind The Boy Who Trapped The Sun.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12465/ | 153 hits
Joseph Seager chatted to Colin MacLeod, the man behind The Boy Who Trapped The Sun.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12465/ | 153 hits
Band Profile: Add9
Fat, Heavy, Funky Grooves supplied by 8 smiling musicians. Add9 are one of the best live acts around!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6542/ | 284 hits
Fat, Heavy, Funky Grooves supplied by 8 smiling musicians. Add9 are one of the best live acts around!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6542/ | 284 hits
CD Review: Humanzi - Long Time Coming
Can anyone say stuttering poppy indie guitar music? Will that do? Do you need any more information? Is it really necessary?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6397/ | 116 hits
Can anyone say stuttering poppy indie guitar music? Will that do? Do you need any more information? Is it really necessary?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6397/ | 116 hits
News Article: Futuresound 2005 applications now open...
Applications for Futuresound 2005, the annual event that provides West Yorkshire's bands and musicians with the opportunity to appear at Leeds Carling Weekend Festival, are now being accepted.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3734/ | 913 hits
Applications for Futuresound 2005, the annual event that provides West Yorkshire's bands and musicians with the opportunity to appear at Leeds Carling Weekend Festival, are now being accepted.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3734/ | 913 hits
CD Review: The Bluefoot Project - Observations
Well, well, well. How can a crusty old white anti-dance geetar git like me get rapturous about stuff like this?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/58/ | 115 hits
Well, well, well. How can a crusty old white anti-dance geetar git like me get rapturous about stuff like this?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/58/ | 115 hits
Interview: The Yards
Victoria Holdsworth caught up with The Yards' Chris Helme and his guitarist Chris Farrell for a chat to find out if they'd be playing in our yards any time soon.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7402/ | 815 hits
Victoria Holdsworth caught up with The Yards' Chris Helme and his guitarist Chris Farrell for a chat to find out if they'd be playing in our yards any time soon.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7402/ | 815 hits
CD Review: Fighting With Wire - Machine Parts
Fighting With Wire are Derry's answer to the Foo Fighters. "Machine Parts" could easily figure on any Foo's album, rocking as it does with the same vigour and borrowing massively from the Grohl melody bank.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5955/ | 241 hits
Fighting With Wire are Derry's answer to the Foo Fighters. "Machine Parts" could easily figure on any Foo's album, rocking as it does with the same vigour and borrowing massively from the Grohl melody bank.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/5955/ | 241 hits
CD Review: Biffy Clyro - Mountains
Biffy Clyro have been releasing stuff left right and centre over the past year or so, ever since album 'Puzzle' got great exposure and mainstream success.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9928/ | 1,404 hits
Biffy Clyro have been releasing stuff left right and centre over the past year or so, ever since album 'Puzzle' got great exposure and mainstream success.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9928/ | 1,404 hits
CD Review: Jon Jones and the Beatniks Movement - Freak Show
Is this a demo or a single? The sleeve insert has only the words Freak Show on it many times, around the wide-eyed face of one who has beheld something. The disc itself is a Maxell CD-R 52X with no ID for the musicians making such good use of it.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8628/ | 299 hits
Is this a demo or a single? The sleeve insert has only the words Freak Show on it many times, around the wide-eyed face of one who has beheld something. The disc itself is a Maxell CD-R 52X with no ID for the musicians making such good use of it.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8628/ | 299 hits
CD Review: The Blakes - s/t
Seattle trio who seem to have their fingers on several pulses, the 13 tracks here run through genres like a modern rock 101.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9924/ | 112 hits
Seattle trio who seem to have their fingers on several pulses, the 13 tracks here run through genres like a modern rock 101.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9924/ | 112 hits
Live Review: Taking Back Sunday
Gigs for nostalgia's sake always seem to get me slightly more excited than gigs for bands I currently like or am interested in.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11002/ | 231 hits
Gigs for nostalgia's sake always seem to get me slightly more excited than gigs for bands I currently like or am interested in.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11002/ | 231 hits
CD Review: Being 747 - Weather Girl
Dave Cooke takes his material from the wistful, listless and mundane corners of pop vernacular. He dries it out, tidies up the lyrics, gives it a tune and then mocks it with delicious and subtle cruelty.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/59/ | 275 hits
Dave Cooke takes his material from the wistful, listless and mundane corners of pop vernacular. He dries it out, tidies up the lyrics, gives it a tune and then mocks it with delicious and subtle cruelty.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/59/ | 275 hits
CD Review: Countermine - Letters
Apparently turning down deals left, right and centre Countermine seem to be a band in demand. This sub-standard rock ballad is the sort of stuff that A & R men dream of.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3760/ | 337 hits
Apparently turning down deals left, right and centre Countermine seem to be a band in demand. This sub-standard rock ballad is the sort of stuff that A & R men dream of.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3760/ | 337 hits
CD Review: Suki - 30:00
30 minutes of careful mood setting music. It's rhythmically well under control, it's well played and thoughtfully arranged.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/51/ | 153 hits
30 minutes of careful mood setting music. It's rhythmically well under control, it's well played and thoughtfully arranged.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/51/ | 153 hits
CD Review: Bring Me The Horizon - This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made for
When you have a track entitled "RAWWWRR!" then it can only be Metal Core at its stop start heaviest. Bring Me The Horizon double kick drum it up to the hilt, give themselves one hell of a saw throat and chugga-chugga at quite ridiculous speeds.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6517/ | 1,031 hits
When you have a track entitled "RAWWWRR!" then it can only be Metal Core at its stop start heaviest. Bring Me The Horizon double kick drum it up to the hilt, give themselves one hell of a saw throat and chugga-chugga at quite ridiculous speeds.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6517/ | 1,031 hits
CD Review: Bell X1 - Eve, The Apple Of My Eye
Ah the Emerald Isle, they don't half love their adult-orientated angsty folk with a twist, ala Damien Rice, David Gray and Bell X1 no less - all successes over there long before they were successes over here.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2787/ | 1,754 hits
Ah the Emerald Isle, they don't half love their adult-orientated angsty folk with a twist, ala Damien Rice, David Gray and Bell X1 no less - all successes over there long before they were successes over here.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2787/ | 1,754 hits
CD Review: Rolo Tomassi - s/t
You can't really diss Rolo Tomassi. In fairness, I've seen these guys struggle through hardcore shows, getting abuse from the scene kids because they're all about 14 (my old band played with them last year and they bought their GCSE revision books with them), but they've struggled on over the past year and finally honed their unusual brand of synth-spazzcore, so now their headlining shows and supporting HORSE the band and stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7533/ | 203 hits
You can't really diss Rolo Tomassi. In fairness, I've seen these guys struggle through hardcore shows, getting abuse from the scene kids because they're all about 14 (my old band played with them last year and they bought their GCSE revision books with them), but they've struggled on over the past year and finally honed their unusual brand of synth-spazzcore, so now their headlining shows and supporting HORSE the band and stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7533/ | 203 hits
Interview: Fulc
Fulc talk to Andy Roberts about single, tours, Kerrang and strippers...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1610/ | 145 hits
Fulc talk to Andy Roberts about single, tours, Kerrang and strippers...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1610/ | 145 hits
CD Review: Emmet - The Disfunktional EP
Returning to the CD reviews page after a good few months absence is Emmet, the dance band it's OK to like.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2918/ | 206 hits
Returning to the CD reviews page after a good few months absence is Emmet, the dance band it's OK to like.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2918/ | 206 hits
CD Review: White Rose Movement - Love Is a Number
The very fact that this record exists in the first place is an indication that someone at Independiente reckons that there's room in the British music scene for yet one more group of student indie types with a few Gang of Four records in their collections.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3994/ | 677 hits
The very fact that this record exists in the first place is an indication that someone at Independiente reckons that there's room in the British music scene for yet one more group of student indie types with a few Gang of Four records in their collections.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3994/ | 677 hits
CD Review: The Noise - Untitled
A year ago The Noise were sounding like a young and excitable pub rock band with a bit of a cheek. A new year, and a new release and they still have the same plunderous love of 70's bluesy rock and roll and much the same basic sound.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2511/ | 461 hits
A year ago The Noise were sounding like a young and excitable pub rock band with a bit of a cheek. A new year, and a new release and they still have the same plunderous love of 70's bluesy rock and roll and much the same basic sound.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2511/ | 461 hits
Interview: Being 747
Dave Cooke talks about life after Landspeed Loungers, Wrath Records, the local scene and the fortunes of his new band...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1608/ | 233 hits
Dave Cooke talks about life after Landspeed Loungers, Wrath Records, the local scene and the fortunes of his new band...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1608/ | 233 hits
Interview: Minus
Guitarist with Icelandic rockers Mínus (pronounced "Meenush") Frosti, has an informal chat with Gavin Miller about touring, singing songs in English and why Iceland is the hip place to be nowadays...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2838/ | 1,210 hits
Guitarist with Icelandic rockers Mínus (pronounced "Meenush") Frosti, has an informal chat with Gavin Miller about touring, singing songs in English and why Iceland is the hip place to be nowadays...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2838/ | 1,210 hits
CD Review: Galactico - Untitled
No biog and no website means no information about Galactico, so it's only a guess whether the band is named after the super stars of Real Madrid.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6360/ | 158 hits
No biog and no website means no information about Galactico, so it's only a guess whether the band is named after the super stars of Real Madrid.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6360/ | 158 hits
CD Review: Charlotte Hatherley - Behave EP
Charlotte Hatherley, you've shamed me and I deserve it. Having not got much from a first hearing some months ago, I misguidedly turned my back on a lot of innocent pleasure.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8202/ | 168 hits
Charlotte Hatherley, you've shamed me and I deserve it. Having not got much from a first hearing some months ago, I misguidedly turned my back on a lot of innocent pleasure.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8202/ | 168 hits
CD Review: Repairman - Here We Are Now EP
It's clear to see, or rather hear, why Repairman have become touring companions of both Gomez and Athlete of late.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/633/ | 126 hits
It's clear to see, or rather hear, why Repairman have become touring companions of both Gomez and Athlete of late.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/633/ | 126 hits
CD Review: Dinosaur Jr - Been There All The Time
There's some grunge characters appearing again recently on these shores; Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, The Melvins, Smashing Pumpkins all playing this year (some last year too).
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8210/ | 149 hits
There's some grunge characters appearing again recently on these shores; Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, The Melvins, Smashing Pumpkins all playing this year (some last year too).
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8210/ | 149 hits
CD Review: The Polyphonic Spree - Hanging Around
Sounding like a gospel version of Grandaddy vs The Mull Historical Society vs The kids from fame, this is truly bemusing stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/455/ | 103 hits
Sounding like a gospel version of Grandaddy vs The Mull Historical Society vs The kids from fame, this is truly bemusing stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/455/ | 103 hits
CD Review: Seven Hours - Seven Hours EP
"Nowhere to Hide" is a clanging bluesified rock piledriver with Americano vocal affectation in the style of Pub Rock, but no particular song.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/358/ | 148 hits
"Nowhere to Hide" is a clanging bluesified rock piledriver with Americano vocal affectation in the style of Pub Rock, but no particular song.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/358/ | 148 hits
CD Review: Naked Lounge - Crimson
Ska tinged rock without the horn sections, verging into metal at times with growling vocals and guitars to match.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/635/ | 144 hits
Ska tinged rock without the horn sections, verging into metal at times with growling vocals and guitars to match.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/635/ | 144 hits
CD Review: Duncan McFarlane Band - Woodshed Boys
After having had the pleasure of catching this band live several times I had very high expectations of this album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3507/ | 658 hits
After having had the pleasure of catching this band live several times I had very high expectations of this album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3507/ | 658 hits
CD Review: Bodixa - Fairytailed
Star*Bodixa's single on Energy Records has a timeless and glistening appeal. Nostalgic serenity pours out of every verse.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/200/ | 148 hits
Star*Bodixa's single on Energy Records has a timeless and glistening appeal. Nostalgic serenity pours out of every verse.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/200/ | 148 hits
CD Review: Scout - History & Radio
A lot of people will love Scout. I know my mum does. They're a cracking band, very talented with strong arrangements and a singer who sounds like Andrea Corr but so much better.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3903/ | 153 hits
A lot of people will love Scout. I know my mum does. They're a cracking band, very talented with strong arrangements and a singer who sounds like Andrea Corr but so much better.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3903/ | 153 hits
CD Review: Yes Boss - Look Busy
I'm not sure whether it would be sensible to say anything negative about Yes Boss. If the lyrics are to be believed then the wrong side of Noah is clearly not the place to be.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8117/ | 214 hits
I'm not sure whether it would be sensible to say anything negative about Yes Boss. If the lyrics are to be believed then the wrong side of Noah is clearly not the place to be.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8117/ | 214 hits
Interview: Crystal Stilts
Amelia Rivas caught up with Crystal Stilts after their Leeds gig at the Brudenell Social Club
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10592/ | 241 hits
Amelia Rivas caught up with Crystal Stilts after their Leeds gig at the Brudenell Social Club
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10592/ | 241 hits
CD Review: Agent Blue - Crossbreed
Yodelling is an art not to be trifled with. In most cases it is neither big nor clever. Agent Blue are not the exception, they are the rule.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3270/ | 366 hits
Yodelling is an art not to be trifled with. In most cases it is neither big nor clever. Agent Blue are not the exception, they are the rule.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3270/ | 366 hits
CD Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Machine
Machine is the 2nd musical bullet whizzing past your ear from the gun of these New York art-house punks and boy does it cut the air.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/474/ | 162 hits
Machine is the 2nd musical bullet whizzing past your ear from the gun of these New York art-house punks and boy does it cut the air.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/474/ | 162 hits
CD Review: Modest Mouse - Float On
Seattle's Modest Mouse have been sideline spectators on the scene for a good while now, quietly enjoying the flattering but financially lacking "cult" status.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2846/ | 759 hits
Seattle's Modest Mouse have been sideline spectators on the scene for a good while now, quietly enjoying the flattering but financially lacking "cult" status.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2846/ | 759 hits
CD Review: Vatican Jet - Bronze Demo
Vatican Jet are a bit special. Verging on special needs special perhaps, but special nevertheless. Opener 'Olio' (a 'spiced stew' according to the dictionary, might be relevant, might be not) is a completely detached from the realms of normality, nearing on the pompous indie opera tale, culminating in a soaring Pavarotti-esque roar.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7002/ | 405 hits
Vatican Jet are a bit special. Verging on special needs special perhaps, but special nevertheless. Opener 'Olio' (a 'spiced stew' according to the dictionary, might be relevant, might be not) is a completely detached from the realms of normality, nearing on the pompous indie opera tale, culminating in a soaring Pavarotti-esque roar.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7002/ | 405 hits
Interview: The Blueskins
Cathy Simpson talks to The Blueskins about music, festivals, The Beatles and lazy journalism...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1631/ | 409 hits
Cathy Simpson talks to The Blueskins about music, festivals, The Beatles and lazy journalism...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1631/ | 409 hits
CD Review: Your Vegas - Flybuzz
Following their sold-out self-titled debut single, Your Vegas offer up a second limited edition single Flybuzz - limited edition not being a PR way of saying small run then?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6078/ | 491 hits
Following their sold-out self-titled debut single, Your Vegas offer up a second limited edition single Flybuzz - limited edition not being a PR way of saying small run then?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6078/ | 491 hits
CD Review: Spitfire Charlie - Hard To Let You Go
The biog accompanying this release talks of "plans for the summer" but at the last report 3 out of 4 of Spitfire Charlie were heading for pastures new.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8645/ | 176 hits
The biog accompanying this release talks of "plans for the summer" but at the last report 3 out of 4 of Spitfire Charlie were heading for pastures new.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8645/ | 176 hits
CD Review: Medium 21 - Killings from the Dial
It just gets tougher doesn't it? An album that would have been shockingly good three years ago is merely good at today's prices.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/525/ | 159 hits
It just gets tougher doesn't it? An album that would have been shockingly good three years ago is merely good at today's prices.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/525/ | 159 hits
CD Review: Dionysis - The Butterflies Cry EP
Relative babes on the music scene (7 months to be exact), Halifax's Dionysis show a wealth of potential in this hit and miss 3-song collection.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/344/ | 187 hits
Relative babes on the music scene (7 months to be exact), Halifax's Dionysis show a wealth of potential in this hit and miss 3-song collection.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/344/ | 187 hits
CD Review: John Merrick's Remains - Digging Up The Remains
Sometimes in life, you encounter those who are, shall we say, a bit twisted. These two electro goons, naming themselves after the Elephant Man though, take the cake.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3497/ | 1,121 hits
Sometimes in life, you encounter those who are, shall we say, a bit twisted. These two electro goons, naming themselves after the Elephant Man though, take the cake.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3497/ | 1,121 hits
Interview: The Pigeon Detectives
The Pigeon Detectives have been on a UK wide tour enjoying sold out shows and performing their new songs. Charlotte Oxnard caught up with the band at Leeds Metropolitan University for the home leg of their tour.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7750/ | 2,694 hits
The Pigeon Detectives have been on a UK wide tour enjoying sold out shows and performing their new songs. Charlotte Oxnard caught up with the band at Leeds Metropolitan University for the home leg of their tour.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7750/ | 2,694 hits
Live Review: Saving Lenny + Polarized + The Lake Resistance
How could any one miss this gig?!! No, I'm not talking about the fact that this gig is free. I'm not even saying how could anyone miss one of the best young acts in Leeds in Saving Lenny.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1327/ | 229 hits
How could any one miss this gig?!! No, I'm not talking about the fact that this gig is free. I'm not even saying how could anyone miss one of the best young acts in Leeds in Saving Lenny.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1327/ | 229 hits
CD Review: Wire Happy - Problems of Everyday Life
This CD is a strange one. Basically Wire Happy is a guy called Kevin who sits at his fourtrack machine making recordings of very short length and fitting lots onto an album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4079/ | 152 hits
This CD is a strange one. Basically Wire Happy is a guy called Kevin who sits at his fourtrack machine making recordings of very short length and fitting lots onto an album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4079/ | 152 hits
Interview: Pop Threat
The Leeds four piece explain why they've never felt a part of the Leeds scene, but still have the opportunity to make it big
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1607/ | 165 hits
The Leeds four piece explain why they've never felt a part of the Leeds scene, but still have the opportunity to make it big
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1607/ | 165 hits
Interview: Seasick Steve
Seasick Steve and his guitar 'The Three Stringed Trance Wonder' have recently come off the festival circuit and preparing for a UK tour starting this month so Sam Murray rang his Norway home to find out about the man, the music and get a story or two.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8882/ | 2,377 hits
Seasick Steve and his guitar 'The Three Stringed Trance Wonder' have recently come off the festival circuit and preparing for a UK tour starting this month so Sam Murray rang his Norway home to find out about the man, the music and get a story or two.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8882/ | 2,377 hits
CD Review: Kid Carpet - The Kid's Back
You can't knock Kid Carpet. He's gone out, found a niche in the market for plugging in toys and singing about daily wows.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8172/ | 146 hits
You can't knock Kid Carpet. He's gone out, found a niche in the market for plugging in toys and singing about daily wows.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8172/ | 146 hits
CD Review: Whirlwind Heat And Lightspeed Champion - How Do You Do?
Don't worry, the sleepless nights are over. You know, the ones you were having about "What happened to the Test Icicles?" It's been tough hasn't it?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7932/ | 162 hits
Don't worry, the sleepless nights are over. You know, the ones you were having about "What happened to the Test Icicles?" It's been tough hasn't it?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7932/ | 162 hits
CD Review: Maupa - Helpless
Delay pedal mania, breathy reverb ridden vocals & keyboard noises that go woooooooouuuuup..p..p..p! Inevitably your reviewer is going to reach for their off the peg Coldplay (tired) and Elbow (starting to look worn) comparisons!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/642/ | 291 hits
Delay pedal mania, breathy reverb ridden vocals & keyboard noises that go woooooooouuuuup..p..p..p! Inevitably your reviewer is going to reach for their off the peg Coldplay (tired) and Elbow (starting to look worn) comparisons!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/642/ | 291 hits
CD Review: Beautiful Feet - Something in Mind
Bluddy Stewdants always thinking ure so bluddy smart! Well yes actually these specimens are! Beautiful feet are advocates of the softly softly sweeping harmonies approach that is so suited to summer afternoons and drinks with friends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/247/ | 207 hits
Bluddy Stewdants always thinking ure so bluddy smart! Well yes actually these specimens are! Beautiful feet are advocates of the softly softly sweeping harmonies approach that is so suited to summer afternoons and drinks with friends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/247/ | 207 hits
Interview: The Whip
Leeds Music Scene caught up with The Whip as they kick off their UK tour
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9528/ | 454 hits
Leeds Music Scene caught up with The Whip as they kick off their UK tour
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9528/ | 454 hits
CD Review: Tempting Kate - Last Change
Tempting Kate are a band that play exciting pop punky stuff. And I don't mean the kind that is plugged away on mtv2 all the time, I mean up tempo rock songs with powerful vocals and real melody.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/248/ | 84 hits
Tempting Kate are a band that play exciting pop punky stuff. And I don't mean the kind that is plugged away on mtv2 all the time, I mean up tempo rock songs with powerful vocals and real melody.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/248/ | 84 hits
CD Review: The Lies - Untitled
The careful listener will notice that there are actually 3 tracks on The Lies new offering but the tendency to segway between songs of a similar structure, tempo, sound and key will have the casual listener feeling as if they have wandered into a mod-rock-opera.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6787/ | 133 hits
The careful listener will notice that there are actually 3 tracks on The Lies new offering but the tendency to segway between songs of a similar structure, tempo, sound and key will have the casual listener feeling as if they have wandered into a mod-rock-opera.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6787/ | 133 hits
CD Review: Lisa Brown - What's That Sound
Lisa Brown are a bit of a surprise. With that name you expect a solo female acoustic guitar type thing going off but it's nothing of the sort.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6252/ | 410 hits
Lisa Brown are a bit of a surprise. With that name you expect a solo female acoustic guitar type thing going off but it's nothing of the sort.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6252/ | 410 hits
CD Review: Clarkesville - Secret File
Being slow with this review, I'm told by those who go places that this tune is already on the compilation CDs from Woolworths that they play at the gym for people to hyperventilate to.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/619/ | 554 hits
Being slow with this review, I'm told by those who go places that this tune is already on the compilation CDs from Woolworths that they play at the gym for people to hyperventilate to.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/619/ | 554 hits
Band Profile: Happy As Larry
Hello, my name is Larry Chambers and my band is called Happy As Larry. My mates are called Karl, he plays the bongos, and Wayne, he plays the piano.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1941/ | 209 hits
Hello, my name is Larry Chambers and my band is called Happy As Larry. My mates are called Karl, he plays the bongos, and Wayne, he plays the piano.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1941/ | 209 hits
CD Review: Maps - You Don't Know Her Name
Maps is the bedroom product of James Chapman. He has cut quite a cult figure as his MySpace fan-base swells and this looks set to be another release that will further propel him towards a wider audience.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8734/ | 158 hits
Maps is the bedroom product of James Chapman. He has cut quite a cult figure as his MySpace fan-base swells and this looks set to be another release that will further propel him towards a wider audience.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8734/ | 158 hits
Live Review: Gold Blade + The Longshots + Buzzkill
It isn't every gig that ends with your correspondant being grabbed up onstage along with 20 or so other grinning loons to do backing vocals during the encore.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4001/ | 377 hits
It isn't every gig that ends with your correspondant being grabbed up onstage along with 20 or so other grinning loons to do backing vocals during the encore.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4001/ | 377 hits
CD Review: Buen Chico - Our Love's Enormous
This self-released long player from the Leodensian three-piece is a solid example of their warm guitar pop.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10257/ | 179 hits
This self-released long player from the Leodensian three-piece is a solid example of their warm guitar pop.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10257/ | 179 hits
CD Review: Unclejohnny - Untitled
No it isn't a typo that's how they write it. Named after a family member of one of the band, Halifax's grammar thwarters Unclejohnny are a 3 piece alternative outfit that have evolved out of an original studio project.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6120/ | 321 hits
No it isn't a typo that's how they write it. Named after a family member of one of the band, Halifax's grammar thwarters Unclejohnny are a 3 piece alternative outfit that have evolved out of an original studio project.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6120/ | 321 hits
Live Review: Optimus Prhyme + Mr Dogg + Swamp Donkey
SWAMP DONKEY opened tonight's bill at Josephs Well. Two things that grabbed me about this band were the cool graininess to the singer's voice and the fact that they weren't that tight.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/939/ | 155 hits
SWAMP DONKEY opened tonight's bill at Josephs Well. Two things that grabbed me about this band were the cool graininess to the singer's voice and the fact that they weren't that tight.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/939/ | 155 hits
CD Review: The Sunshine Underground - My Army EP
Well, *insert expletive here* me! I'm in love, or something... yes, I want to join their army, I even want a badge and everything.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3149/ | 1,521 hits
Well, *insert expletive here* me! I'm in love, or something... yes, I want to join their army, I even want a badge and everything.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3149/ | 1,521 hits
CD Review: The Answer - Under The Sky
The Answer are embarrassing. It sounds like Creed threw all their Bon Jovi records out and got into The Sweet and Aerosmith.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7531/ | 161 hits
The Answer are embarrassing. It sounds like Creed threw all their Bon Jovi records out and got into The Sweet and Aerosmith.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7531/ | 161 hits
CD Review: Little Japanese Toy - Fingermouse
Oh the joy of breaking out a real 7 inch single and then loving it as much as this. les Flames! go at it like rutting dogs in a home for delicate poodles.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/327/ | 222 hits
Oh the joy of breaking out a real 7 inch single and then loving it as much as this. les Flames! go at it like rutting dogs in a home for delicate poodles.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/327/ | 222 hits
CD Review: les Flames! - Commitment to Excellence
Oh the joy of breaking out a real 7 inch single and then loving it as much as this. les Flames! go at it like rutting dogs in a home for delicate poodles.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/326/ | 216 hits
Oh the joy of breaking out a real 7 inch single and then loving it as much as this. les Flames! go at it like rutting dogs in a home for delicate poodles.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/326/ | 216 hits
CD Review: Hairstreak - Untitled
Hairstreak was not the German General in Allo Allo but it would perhaps be more interesting if this was.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/311/ | 113 hits
Hairstreak was not the German General in Allo Allo but it would perhaps be more interesting if this was.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/311/ | 113 hits
Band Profile: Misterook
23-year-old songwriter Misterook has been around a fair bit as far as music is concerened. Since the age of 13, he has played guitar and wrote with countless bands from funk, soul, rock/metal, solo folk artistes, right through to experimental live drum and bass projects.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2797/ | 168 hits
23-year-old songwriter Misterook has been around a fair bit as far as music is concerened. Since the age of 13, he has played guitar and wrote with countless bands from funk, soul, rock/metal, solo folk artistes, right through to experimental live drum and bass projects.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2797/ | 168 hits
Interview: Eddie Sims
Justin Myers talks to Eddie Sims, promoter of the Annihilation Nights in Leeds.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8058/ | 257 hits
Justin Myers talks to Eddie Sims, promoter of the Annihilation Nights in Leeds.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8058/ | 257 hits
Interview: Cosmo Jarvis
Ahead of his supporting slot with Leeds legends The Sunshine Underground, I have a leisurely long chat with multi talented Cosmo Jarvis.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12420/ | 217 hits
Ahead of his supporting slot with Leeds legends The Sunshine Underground, I have a leisurely long chat with multi talented Cosmo Jarvis.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12420/ | 217 hits
CD Review: Dugong - Quick to the City
2003's "Hat Danko" is still one of my favourite New Yorkshire albums. Opening track "Honest Industry" gets at least one play a month even now.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4146/ | 818 hits
2003's "Hat Danko" is still one of my favourite New Yorkshire albums. Opening track "Honest Industry" gets at least one play a month even now.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4146/ | 818 hits
CD Review: Stephen Fretwell - The Lines
From start to it's "all too soon" finish this is a well constructed / crafted delight. Five songs and a reprise of pure young man's emotion put into song.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/621/ | 604 hits
From start to it's "all too soon" finish this is a well constructed / crafted delight. Five songs and a reprise of pure young man's emotion put into song.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/621/ | 604 hits
CD Review: InMe - Single Of The Weak
One obviously has to hand it to the band for coming up with their own dismissive headline. 'Single of the Weak' is, in a nutshell, exactly that.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11026/ | 457 hits
One obviously has to hand it to the band for coming up with their own dismissive headline. 'Single of the Weak' is, in a nutshell, exactly that.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11026/ | 457 hits
CD Review: MonMon - Repetition With Variation
Could MonMon be one of those bands for whom things unfold slowly? Having listened a few times, it's a puzzle why the worth of Repetition With Variation didn't hit me straight away.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8970/ | 170 hits
Could MonMon be one of those bands for whom things unfold slowly? Having listened a few times, it's a puzzle why the worth of Repetition With Variation didn't hit me straight away.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8970/ | 170 hits
Live Review: The Who + Super Furry Animals + The Flaming Lips + Robyn Hitchcock + The Zutons + Bob Mould + Eels
We are ferried at high speed towards said venue by Geldard's Coaches, allowing us time to fuel up on Heineken.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6971/ | 738 hits
We are ferried at high speed towards said venue by Geldard's Coaches, allowing us time to fuel up on Heineken.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6971/ | 738 hits
CD Review: Brody - Lookaway
This is an experiment, a test of song writing, recording and packaging taking just 14 days from conception to release.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/239/ | 116 hits
This is an experiment, a test of song writing, recording and packaging taking just 14 days from conception to release.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/239/ | 116 hits
CD Review: Stereophonics - Since I Told You It's Over
There seem to be five ways of buying variants and by-products of the Stereophonics recent long playing record in the current (October) release package from V2.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/647/ | 250 hits
There seem to be five ways of buying variants and by-products of the Stereophonics recent long playing record in the current (October) release package from V2.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/647/ | 250 hits
CD Review: Icarus Sister - Ghost
Icarus Sister have the ideas and the attitude. But they hesitate in their achievement. They have three songs in minor keys and a confidence in the truth of their own feelings.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/403/ | 160 hits
Icarus Sister have the ideas and the attitude. But they hesitate in their achievement. They have three songs in minor keys and a confidence in the truth of their own feelings.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/403/ | 160 hits
CD Review: The Definitve List - Untitled
There comes a point when someone has to say: "OK lads, that'll do. Now go away and have another listen to the stuff you're borrowing".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/72/ | 96 hits
There comes a point when someone has to say: "OK lads, that'll do. Now go away and have another listen to the stuff you're borrowing".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/72/ | 96 hits
CD Review: Loudmouth Soup - Skydiver / Narcolepsy
Loudmouth Soup have long memories and some skill in their five-piece band. Here are two catchy pop songs of some quality.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2449/ | 422 hits
Loudmouth Soup have long memories and some skill in their five-piece band. Here are two catchy pop songs of some quality.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2449/ | 422 hits
CD Review: Tarentum - s/t
What's it like? Well for starters, it's nice to hear something new to the ears, Tarentum are almost like, how can I put it...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6314/ | 144 hits
What's it like? Well for starters, it's nice to hear something new to the ears, Tarentum are almost like, how can I put it...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6314/ | 144 hits
CD Review: The Xenith Sound - Untitled
What a relief, The Xenith Sound appear to have finally found the "Sound" their moniker so proudly advertises.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3544/ | 458 hits
What a relief, The Xenith Sound appear to have finally found the "Sound" their moniker so proudly advertises.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3544/ | 458 hits
CD Review: Mr Dogg - Get Out of the Warehouse
This 6 track EP races insanely through Jam popness, Pistols punkness, punk skaness and punk death metalness.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/232/ | 175 hits
This 6 track EP races insanely through Jam popness, Pistols punkness, punk skaness and punk death metalness.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/232/ | 175 hits
CD Review: Electric Mud Generator - Souls of Infinity
Appropriately with a name containing the word "mud" this is a dirty throaty blues rock stab from the Leeds outfit.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2354/ | 486 hits
Appropriately with a name containing the word "mud" this is a dirty throaty blues rock stab from the Leeds outfit.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2354/ | 486 hits
Live Review: Zane + Visa + Divided by Zero
Well, despite spending an hour and ten minutes waiting for a bus that didn't turn up and a taxi that didn't turn up either, I eventually made it to the rocket in time to catch most of Divided by Zero's set.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1141/ | 129 hits
Well, despite spending an hour and ten minutes waiting for a bus that didn't turn up and a taxi that didn't turn up either, I eventually made it to the rocket in time to catch most of Divided by Zero's set.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1141/ | 129 hits
CD Review: The Lost 45s UK - Ivy / The Man That Time Forgot
Ah that annoying occasion when the first prostitute you use turns out to be your girlfriend's mum, we've all been there.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3495/ | 441 hits
Ah that annoying occasion when the first prostitute you use turns out to be your girlfriend's mum, we've all been there.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3495/ | 441 hits
CD Review: Alec Empire - Intelligence And Sacrifice
Digital Hardcore - how aptly named is this record label? You'll not read a better description of Alec Empire's double-CD album in the remainder of this review so save yourself time, stop reading and get yourself down to your local record shop to purchase a copy...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/401/ | 219 hits
Digital Hardcore - how aptly named is this record label? You'll not read a better description of Alec Empire's double-CD album in the remainder of this review so save yourself time, stop reading and get yourself down to your local record shop to purchase a copy...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/401/ | 219 hits
CD Review: The Gold Fever - California / Hear My Voice
Oh no it's that dreaded genre, a genre in which a band can be very very good or damn shite! Strangely enough The Gold Fever are neither, they have simple Ramones style guitar riffs mixed with indie melodies and vocals, yes kids, here we have another Indie-punk record, a genre which has confused us all.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3922/ | 255 hits
Oh no it's that dreaded genre, a genre in which a band can be very very good or damn shite! Strangely enough The Gold Fever are neither, they have simple Ramones style guitar riffs mixed with indie melodies and vocals, yes kids, here we have another Indie-punk record, a genre which has confused us all.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3922/ | 255 hits
Live Review: Ash
After being introduced by Cold Feet star James Nesbitt (why?) the will they/won't they saga of the weekend is finally settled.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1013/ | 84 hits
After being introduced by Cold Feet star James Nesbitt (why?) the will they/won't they saga of the weekend is finally settled.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1013/ | 84 hits
CD Review: Surferosa - Satin Con Blonde
Well, it ain't half as good as 'Lucky Lipstick', which I dug out the other day, subsequently finding myself in a hyperactive state of Chupa Chup withdrawal symptoms and ferreting around in my drawer for some glittery tights.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3235/ | 172 hits
Well, it ain't half as good as 'Lucky Lipstick', which I dug out the other day, subsequently finding myself in a hyperactive state of Chupa Chup withdrawal symptoms and ferreting around in my drawer for some glittery tights.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3235/ | 172 hits
CD Review: Cope - Sky City
Wakefield is the place for sure. Here's another talented bunch with a future ahead of them. It's not fully realised in the demo, with its tendency to try and sound like a "proper record".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/348/ | 126 hits
Wakefield is the place for sure. Here's another talented bunch with a future ahead of them. It's not fully realised in the demo, with its tendency to try and sound like a "proper record".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/348/ | 126 hits
Live Review: Hood + Semi Squared + The Unpleasants
Tonight really didn't start well. After I'd encountered the frankly bizarre system of a 'paying guestlist' (?) we are told that due to technical difficulties, original support act Printed Circuit had to pull out, so enter Hood keys man Gareth Spencer and his side project The Unpleasants.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3575/ | 1,204 hits
Tonight really didn't start well. After I'd encountered the frankly bizarre system of a 'paying guestlist' (?) we are told that due to technical difficulties, original support act Printed Circuit had to pull out, so enter Hood keys man Gareth Spencer and his side project The Unpleasants.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3575/ | 1,204 hits
News Article: Wrath Records on the search for stars for new Being 747 video...
Work is about to start for the video to the new single by Being 747, titled The Girl Who Fell Asleep Whilst Watching Her Life Flash Before Her Eyes.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2825/ | 183 hits
Work is about to start for the video to the new single by Being 747, titled The Girl Who Fell Asleep Whilst Watching Her Life Flash Before Her Eyes.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2825/ | 183 hits
CD Review: The Cribs - Martell
The third offering from our very own Wakefield trio's second album 'The New Fellas' is yet another slice of charming indie pop responsible for securing the hype surrounding the so-called 'New Yorkshire' movement at the moment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4192/ | 525 hits
The third offering from our very own Wakefield trio's second album 'The New Fellas' is yet another slice of charming indie pop responsible for securing the hype surrounding the so-called 'New Yorkshire' movement at the moment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4192/ | 525 hits
Interview: All My Friends Are Dead
Gavin Miller speaks with Leeds' newest post-rock prodigies All My Friends Are Dead
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4225/ | 1,374 hits
Gavin Miller speaks with Leeds' newest post-rock prodigies All My Friends Are Dead
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4225/ | 1,374 hits
Live Review: Percy + Floozy + Harold
What an honour, reviewing 2 of my favourite bands in the world, as well as the added bonus of Harold.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/935/ | 102 hits
What an honour, reviewing 2 of my favourite bands in the world, as well as the added bonus of Harold.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/935/ | 102 hits
CD Review: The Moonies - I would give it all up for your Love
If you sped the Buzzcocks up then you would have The Moonies. In the recent media frenzy of garage rock bands that regularly appear at the whim of the NME and their evil media empire buddies, to often the focus seems away from our shores - be it Sweden, Australia or the US, we overlook our own proficiency to turn out some darn' right great bish bash bosh guitar songs.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/549/ | 157 hits
If you sped the Buzzcocks up then you would have The Moonies. In the recent media frenzy of garage rock bands that regularly appear at the whim of the NME and their evil media empire buddies, to often the focus seems away from our shores - be it Sweden, Australia or the US, we overlook our own proficiency to turn out some darn' right great bish bash bosh guitar songs.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/549/ | 157 hits
CD Review: Shallowend - Now You Can Own The Experience
If you had never heard acoustic music played well. If you had never heard well-written songs. If mumbling rock with no particular words was your only listening pleasure.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/88/ | 113 hits
If you had never heard acoustic music played well. If you had never heard well-written songs. If mumbling rock with no particular words was your only listening pleasure.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/88/ | 113 hits
CD Review: The Iinviisiibles - Do Paranoia Don't
The Iinviisiibles come at you from that hollow wrench of nausea that trembles on the edge between fear and laughter.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/402/ | 89 hits
The Iinviisiibles come at you from that hollow wrench of nausea that trembles on the edge between fear and laughter.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/402/ | 89 hits
CD Review: Sleeve - Untitled
Yet another indie/ rock four piece are here to stifle our souls. Hooray. This time it's Sleeve, a Sheffield formed band that "live in a dream." There's a bit more to them than the usual Oasis sound-a-likes.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8196/ | 123 hits
Yet another indie/ rock four piece are here to stifle our souls. Hooray. This time it's Sleeve, a Sheffield formed band that "live in a dream." There's a bit more to them than the usual Oasis sound-a-likes.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8196/ | 123 hits
CD Review: Chickenhawk - Untitled
Ok well put simply Chickenhawk are a tad demented. Demented is good. I like that and I quite like Chickenhawk.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6074/ | 290 hits
Ok well put simply Chickenhawk are a tad demented. Demented is good. I like that and I quite like Chickenhawk.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6074/ | 290 hits
CD Review: Various Artists - Escape From Monotony
This hardworking fanzine has furnished us from its Bradford catchment area with an 18 band/artist compilation that isn't going to be forgotten.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7854/ | 430 hits
This hardworking fanzine has furnished us from its Bradford catchment area with an 18 band/artist compilation that isn't going to be forgotten.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7854/ | 430 hits
Live Review: Ladytron
There is so much hot news happening here. Ladytron, once the ubercool band of yesteryear, have changed.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4322/ | 466 hits
There is so much hot news happening here. Ladytron, once the ubercool band of yesteryear, have changed.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4322/ | 466 hits
CD Review: No Eager Men - I'm Bored
A guilty pleasure of mine has always been 'dumb music'. Okay, I'll happily listen to 'Bush Baiters' and 'Peace Preachers' without too many complaints, but sometimes one needs to wind down and forget about the troubles of the world for a few hours.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8182/ | 108 hits
A guilty pleasure of mine has always been 'dumb music'. Okay, I'll happily listen to 'Bush Baiters' and 'Peace Preachers' without too many complaints, but sometimes one needs to wind down and forget about the troubles of the world for a few hours.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8182/ | 108 hits
CD Review: Spitfire Charlie - Spitfire Charlie EP
Leeds students Spitfire Charlie deliver a 6 song blues / classic rock inspired EP in their aim of "Leeds Domination".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3409/ | 455 hits
Leeds students Spitfire Charlie deliver a 6 song blues / classic rock inspired EP in their aim of "Leeds Domination".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3409/ | 455 hits
CD Review: Andy Clare - After Everything
This is big hearted music. "After Everything" is a 3 track CD with one very fine song and two OK tracks.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/134/ | 140 hits
This is big hearted music. "After Everything" is a 3 track CD with one very fine song and two OK tracks.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/134/ | 140 hits
CD Review: Amberman - Untitled
Amberman's five-track CD comes in a very well presented package with an equally well-designed CD cover; on the inside there is the message: "this is the eagerly anticipated first demo".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11/ | 148 hits
Amberman's five-track CD comes in a very well presented package with an equally well-designed CD cover; on the inside there is the message: "this is the eagerly anticipated first demo".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11/ | 148 hits
Live Review: Dead Bells + The Little Blackhearts + James Owen Fender
Tonight's line up at the Brudenell has been pruned as Nursery of Naughtiness have had their laptop stolen.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10490/ | 249 hits
Tonight's line up at the Brudenell has been pruned as Nursery of Naughtiness have had their laptop stolen.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10490/ | 249 hits
CD Review: The Breech - I am New Mexico
A hectic lifestyle means that it has taken me a good week or two to actually get round to playing this CD.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2347/ | 468 hits
A hectic lifestyle means that it has taken me a good week or two to actually get round to playing this CD.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2347/ | 468 hits
CD Review: Relay - Untitled
Barnsley based Relay carry off an accomplished and familiar sound. "Different to anything else around at the moment" says a quote from the accompanying biog, written by someone who clearly hasn't listened to The Rain Band, The Music, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Verve, Mansun, Primal Scream and countless others that have mixed the dancier / funkier side of rock with Indie.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2743/ | 198 hits
Barnsley based Relay carry off an accomplished and familiar sound. "Different to anything else around at the moment" says a quote from the accompanying biog, written by someone who clearly hasn't listened to The Rain Band, The Music, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Verve, Mansun, Primal Scream and countless others that have mixed the dancier / funkier side of rock with Indie.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2743/ | 198 hits
CD Review: Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots
Quirky acoustic guitarists are not exactly redundant at the moment. So for something of this genre to be deemed 'important', in my opinion it has to be essential and most of all, interesting.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8737/ | 713 hits
Quirky acoustic guitarists are not exactly redundant at the moment. So for something of this genre to be deemed 'important', in my opinion it has to be essential and most of all, interesting.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8737/ | 713 hits
Live Review: Idlewild + Ikara Colt + Eska
Glasgow's Eska should have gone down a storm. Their dynamic noise, all stop-start rhythms and waves of sound should have had the crowd in awe, but they simply stood and stared.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/821/ | 75 hits
Glasgow's Eska should have gone down a storm. Their dynamic noise, all stop-start rhythms and waves of sound should have had the crowd in awe, but they simply stood and stared.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/821/ | 75 hits
Live Review: Porcelin + Trash Heap Heroes + Esclavage + Misled Vision + Stroodle
I was really surprised when I turned up early to see the place packed! I've been to the Valley a few times before and have not seen it like this for ages...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/780/ | 271 hits
I was really surprised when I turned up early to see the place packed! I've been to the Valley a few times before and have not seen it like this for ages...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/780/ | 271 hits
CD Review: The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle
So you start off as a crazy youth with point blank attitude and more guts than sense. You play in stupid venues and say yes to everything and anything, including a name to die with: "Afghan Whigs".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2244/ | 372 hits
So you start off as a crazy youth with point blank attitude and more guts than sense. You play in stupid venues and say yes to everything and anything, including a name to die with: "Afghan Whigs".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2244/ | 372 hits
Live Review: Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys' rapid rise seems to have very much been based on capturing a moment and riding that wave of success.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11107/ | 1,186 hits
Arctic Monkeys' rapid rise seems to have very much been based on capturing a moment and riding that wave of success.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11107/ | 1,186 hits
Live Review: Dead Peter + Steer + James Skinner
Town. Okay. Everyone knows where town is right? That's a good place to start. Now, make your way up to Park Row.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3564/ | 323 hits
Town. Okay. Everyone knows where town is right? That's a good place to start. Now, make your way up to Park Row.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3564/ | 323 hits
CD Review: Feeder - Come Back Around
This was always going to be an anticipated release, not just because it is the first single from new album 'Comfort In Sound' but, of course, to see if and how Feeder have coped with the tragic loss of drummer Jon Lee at the start of the year.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/453/ | 180 hits
This was always going to be an anticipated release, not just because it is the first single from new album 'Comfort In Sound' but, of course, to see if and how Feeder have coped with the tragic loss of drummer Jon Lee at the start of the year.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/453/ | 180 hits
Live Review: John Cooper Clarke
With glacial slowness forty-five minutes of Frank Sidebottom creaked by - not for everybody of course, just for me and anyone else who'd already waited thirty years to re-encounter John Cooper Clarke on Leeds University territory.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11197/ | 326 hits
With glacial slowness forty-five minutes of Frank Sidebottom creaked by - not for everybody of course, just for me and anyone else who'd already waited thirty years to re-encounter John Cooper Clarke on Leeds University territory.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11197/ | 326 hits
CD Review: Mother Vulpine - Keep Your Wits Sharp
Like a musical energy drink pumped full of sugar and caffeine, Mother Vulpine rattle around these 2 songs like they are being shaken around in a box by some giant hands.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8425/ | 236 hits
Like a musical energy drink pumped full of sugar and caffeine, Mother Vulpine rattle around these 2 songs like they are being shaken around in a box by some giant hands.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8425/ | 236 hits
CD Review: Brody - Torn From A Warm Place
Since their last outing Brody have got angrier, noisier and thankfully less straight. They still can't help themselves from a few soaring "rock on the side of a cliff" moments (Miles Away) but for the main part they have taken a step towards a more contemporary Britrock sound.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/359/ | 173 hits
Since their last outing Brody have got angrier, noisier and thankfully less straight. They still can't help themselves from a few soaring "rock on the side of a cliff" moments (Miles Away) but for the main part they have taken a step towards a more contemporary Britrock sound.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/359/ | 173 hits
CD Review: The Horror - First Blood
Leeds-based The Horror have a legacy most UK hardcore acts could only wish for, with ex-members of Leeds seminal hardcore act Voorhees and with a frontman from the mighty Imbalance.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/352/ | 177 hits
Leeds-based The Horror have a legacy most UK hardcore acts could only wish for, with ex-members of Leeds seminal hardcore act Voorhees and with a frontman from the mighty Imbalance.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/352/ | 177 hits
CD Review: Captain Wilberforce - Dreams of Educated Fleas
Seven songs of mature melody and thought provoking stuff from the quaintly named Captain Wilberforce.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2305/ | 204 hits
Seven songs of mature melody and thought provoking stuff from the quaintly named Captain Wilberforce.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2305/ | 204 hits
Interview: Gomez
Nick Henry interviewed Paul "Blackie" Blackburn, bassist of Gomez
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10692/ | 232 hits
Nick Henry interviewed Paul "Blackie" Blackburn, bassist of Gomez
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10692/ | 232 hits
CD Review: Bodixa - California
The very luscious "California" is being trailed as Bodixa's next single: a morsel to take out on national tour duties with Adam Masterson in the second half of February.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2273/ | 373 hits
The very luscious "California" is being trailed as Bodixa's next single: a morsel to take out on national tour duties with Adam Masterson in the second half of February.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2273/ | 373 hits
Live Review: Catylyst + Esclavage + Fifth Goodbye
WOODKIRK VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB is turning into one of the most popular venues in Leeds with a mix of local, novice, signed and professional bands playing week in week out.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1116/ | 295 hits
WOODKIRK VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB is turning into one of the most popular venues in Leeds with a mix of local, novice, signed and professional bands playing week in week out.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1116/ | 295 hits
CD Review: Various Artists - Gnarly Dude
To skater bands everywhere your mission should you decide to accept it, is to appear on a compilation CD entitled Gnarly Dude...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/354/ | 137 hits
To skater bands everywhere your mission should you decide to accept it, is to appear on a compilation CD entitled Gnarly Dude...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/354/ | 137 hits
CD Review: Lewis Sleeman - Cool
Eh it is, is it? Cool, I mean. Well yes frankly it is. This is a little beauty by Mr Lewis Sleeman, whittled out on what one presumes is a shoestring budget over a lengthy 3-year period.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6185/ | 283 hits
Eh it is, is it? Cool, I mean. Well yes frankly it is. This is a little beauty by Mr Lewis Sleeman, whittled out on what one presumes is a shoestring budget over a lengthy 3-year period.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6185/ | 283 hits
Live Review: Clone + The Boy Tate
If Live & Uncut aren't an advertising sham, then they're a shambles - but let's talk more about the music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1178/ | 160 hits
If Live & Uncut aren't an advertising sham, then they're a shambles - but let's talk more about the music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1178/ | 160 hits
Interview: The Hair
Tonight, with James from Duels deputising for Rich (drummer, broken elbow), Leeds four-piece The Hair performed at the Brudenell Social Club supporting Good Shoes. Charlotte Oxnard managed to catch up with them for a few words afterwards...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7737/ | 588 hits
Tonight, with James from Duels deputising for Rich (drummer, broken elbow), Leeds four-piece The Hair performed at the Brudenell Social Club supporting Good Shoes. Charlotte Oxnard managed to catch up with them for a few words afterwards...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7737/ | 588 hits
Live Review: Prodigy
Crowd pleasing without unleashing the sort of incendiary show we've seen Ver Prodge put on as Festivals before, perhaps everyone's favourite punk dance act were saving something in reserve for their Reading headline slot.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/988/ | 267 hits
Crowd pleasing without unleashing the sort of incendiary show we've seen Ver Prodge put on as Festivals before, perhaps everyone's favourite punk dance act were saving something in reserve for their Reading headline slot.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/988/ | 267 hits
CD Review: Infrasound - Fire In The City
If this had been a demo from an unsigned band with slightly rusty production, then this review would be simple - lack of imagination, too much time spent listening to "Definitely Maybe", too much time spent going to the Richard Ashcroft school of stage performing, completely tired lyrics about beginners politics and being hard...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2611/ | 541 hits
If this had been a demo from an unsigned band with slightly rusty production, then this review would be simple - lack of imagination, too much time spent listening to "Definitely Maybe", too much time spent going to the Richard Ashcroft school of stage performing, completely tired lyrics about beginners politics and being hard...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2611/ | 541 hits
CD Review: 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
Every so often a really catchy metal/rock song comes along where people stand up and take notice. With the nominations and awards this song has gained, 30 Seconds To Mars are currently hot stuff, riding the waves of success.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8876/ | 917 hits
Every so often a really catchy metal/rock song comes along where people stand up and take notice. With the nominations and awards this song has gained, 30 Seconds To Mars are currently hot stuff, riding the waves of success.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8876/ | 917 hits
CD Review: Cal Williams Jr - Driving as a form of prayer
What kind of music does Cal Williams Jr Play? Cal Williams Jr plays very ambient classical folk music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6282/ | 255 hits
What kind of music does Cal Williams Jr Play? Cal Williams Jr plays very ambient classical folk music.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6282/ | 255 hits
CD Review: Mazeppa - Kick It for the Low Times
It's easy to believe that Mazeppa smell of soap, so clean is their music. Jazz, Blues, Broadway Musical and pub rock roots combine to cut a straighter than straight middle of the road path for this Bolton outfit.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/584/ | 113 hits
It's easy to believe that Mazeppa smell of soap, so clean is their music. Jazz, Blues, Broadway Musical and pub rock roots combine to cut a straighter than straight middle of the road path for this Bolton outfit.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/584/ | 113 hits
CD Review: The Chiara L's - s/t
The Chiara L's, named aptly after front-woman Chiara Lucchini, are a sprightly, naïve, fun, bundle of scratchy guitar pop.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8644/ | 237 hits
The Chiara L's, named aptly after front-woman Chiara Lucchini, are a sprightly, naïve, fun, bundle of scratchy guitar pop.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8644/ | 237 hits
Interview: Volcanoes
Lesley Jackson talks with Leeds and Sheffield four piece Volcanoes
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10998/ | 252 hits
Lesley Jackson talks with Leeds and Sheffield four piece Volcanoes
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10998/ | 252 hits
CD Review: Hands & Fingers - Untitled
What are Hands & Fingers like? ... very much like a blend of Air (up beat simplistic ambient electronica) and Boards Of Canada (dark ambient electronica).
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6122/ | 335 hits
What are Hands & Fingers like? ... very much like a blend of Air (up beat simplistic ambient electronica) and Boards Of Canada (dark ambient electronica).
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6122/ | 335 hits
CD Review: 4 Letter Holiday - Carefree Demo
Describing themselves as a no-nonsense rock band, 4 Letter Holiday hit the nail square on the head. It's always interesting to consider what any band's motives are in the music they write/record/release.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4260/ | 379 hits
Describing themselves as a no-nonsense rock band, 4 Letter Holiday hit the nail square on the head. It's always interesting to consider what any band's motives are in the music they write/record/release.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4260/ | 379 hits
CD Review: The Lucida Console - Untitled
This three track demo starts very bright and clear on some strong arpeggiated guitar, with a movement through to a slowly rising bass and drums crescendo that speeds up a little uncertainly.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/275/ | 331 hits
This three track demo starts very bright and clear on some strong arpeggiated guitar, with a movement through to a slowly rising bass and drums crescendo that speeds up a little uncertainly.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/275/ | 331 hits
Live Review: The Scaramanga Six + Stuffy and The Fuses + Endless Grey Windows
So, after a mere five months of waiting, I finally get to review a gig in my home town. Endless Grey Windows must have arguably the worst name of any band I've seen in a fair while but they're a passable start to the evening with their distorted indie rock recalling Ride at times.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3561/ | 503 hits
So, after a mere five months of waiting, I finally get to review a gig in my home town. Endless Grey Windows must have arguably the worst name of any band I've seen in a fair while but they're a passable start to the evening with their distorted indie rock recalling Ride at times.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3561/ | 503 hits
CD Review: Falconetti - Finisterre
This is good strong stuff and you don't have to fear its somberness, or shy away from having the whole lot at once: there's enough grace, sinew and primeval mass here to deserve a chance of being the main thing in your brain for a half an hour, even if the opening title track looms out of the silence to establish a portentous presence, and having done so, rather slips away in a slow heartbeat rhythm and female vocal.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8986/ | 197 hits
This is good strong stuff and you don't have to fear its somberness, or shy away from having the whole lot at once: there's enough grace, sinew and primeval mass here to deserve a chance of being the main thing in your brain for a half an hour, even if the opening title track looms out of the silence to establish a portentous presence, and having done so, rather slips away in a slow heartbeat rhythm and female vocal.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8986/ | 197 hits
CD Review: Björk - Greatest Hits
In a time before you were born, dearly beloved, an Icelandic child called Björk joined a punk band called KUKL.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/469/ | 238 hits
In a time before you were born, dearly beloved, an Icelandic child called Björk joined a punk band called KUKL.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/469/ | 238 hits
CD Review: Bam Bam Francs - Bam Bam You're Dead
Just as early 90's danceable Indie became synonymous with the shuffling drum beat first utilised by The Inspiral Carpets on Joe, the early 00's seem set to become similarly associated with disco beat hi-hats and Gang of Four sparse spits of guitar riffs.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4259/ | 864 hits
Just as early 90's danceable Indie became synonymous with the shuffling drum beat first utilised by The Inspiral Carpets on Joe, the early 00's seem set to become similarly associated with disco beat hi-hats and Gang of Four sparse spits of guitar riffs.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4259/ | 864 hits
Live Review: four day Hombre + Parisman + Ryder
Call me old fashioned but the Barfly is just that bit too new and shiny for me. It definitely isn't on the Sheffield 'toilet circuit', and there's just something about those venues.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/747/ | 117 hits
Call me old fashioned but the Barfly is just that bit too new and shiny for me. It definitely isn't on the Sheffield 'toilet circuit', and there's just something about those venues.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/747/ | 117 hits
CD Review: Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose
Tift Merritt you may ask - who the hell is that? Well, Tift Merritt is a country singer-songwriter hailing from North Carolina who has attracted the attentions of Ryan Adams and Ethan Johns no less - who produced this brilliant debut album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/429/ | 99 hits
Tift Merritt you may ask - who the hell is that? Well, Tift Merritt is a country singer-songwriter hailing from North Carolina who has attracted the attentions of Ryan Adams and Ethan Johns no less - who produced this brilliant debut album.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/429/ | 99 hits
Live Review: Phluid + Drugdealer Cheerleader + Daywaste
A night of ROCK down the Royal Park... when isn't it these days? The Royal Park is getting a name for itself now as a more rock sort of venue, possibly due to promoter Steve Kind's insistance that all bands rock at all times.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1088/ | 1,053 hits
A night of ROCK down the Royal Park... when isn't it these days? The Royal Park is getting a name for itself now as a more rock sort of venue, possibly due to promoter Steve Kind's insistance that all bands rock at all times.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1088/ | 1,053 hits
Live Review: Buzzcocks
Touts outside and a sold out show. Great omens for what is to come. And it's an early one too which means that the pubs will still be open for the post-gig discussions.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1213/ | 101 hits
Touts outside and a sold out show. Great omens for what is to come. And it's an early one too which means that the pubs will still be open for the post-gig discussions.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1213/ | 101 hits
Live Review: All Its Worth + Kilter + Negative Opinionz
Well, well, well (ignore the early bad pun) this is the first time that I have ever been specifically asked to do a review, so maybe I am doing something right, and what better place to do my review than at Joseph's Well?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2888/ | 374 hits
Well, well, well (ignore the early bad pun) this is the first time that I have ever been specifically asked to do a review, so maybe I am doing something right, and what better place to do my review than at Joseph's Well?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2888/ | 374 hits
CD Review: Donderdag - Saturday
The PR scraps that came my way along with 'Saturday' promise that it captures the mindset of the British public, as they pine for the best night of summer weekend'.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7164/ | 132 hits
The PR scraps that came my way along with 'Saturday' promise that it captures the mindset of the British public, as they pine for the best night of summer weekend'.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7164/ | 132 hits
CD Review: Charly Six - Get Drunk, Screw, Get High
The boys that once were Brass Monkey are now the men standing up to be counted as Charly Six. With a sound that has undergone several incarnations there has always been some question as to which C6 would be turning up.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/287/ | 264 hits
The boys that once were Brass Monkey are now the men standing up to be counted as Charly Six. With a sound that has undergone several incarnations there has always been some question as to which C6 would be turning up.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/287/ | 264 hits
CD Review: Gaia - Live @ New Roscoe
As a second encounter with Barnsley's badly named Gaia (and they're not even crusties!) is thankfully a little more promising but still cuts a firm trench in the middle of the rock/pop highway.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2425/ | 237 hits
As a second encounter with Barnsley's badly named Gaia (and they're not even crusties!) is thankfully a little more promising but still cuts a firm trench in the middle of the rock/pop highway.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2425/ | 237 hits
CD Review: Adem - Love and Other Planets
With his 2004 solo debut "Homesongs", ex Four Tet member Adem Ilhan managed to break the hardest of hearts with his folk quivering and breathy songs that sounded so fragile at times it was hard not to fall in love with.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6717/ | 176 hits
With his 2004 solo debut "Homesongs", ex Four Tet member Adem Ilhan managed to break the hardest of hearts with his folk quivering and breathy songs that sounded so fragile at times it was hard not to fall in love with.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6717/ | 176 hits
CD Review: Yellow Stripe Nine - Sirens EP
I'm very puzzled. Checking the band's website I find a series of ecstatic reviews for a great live band with a big future.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/356/ | 194 hits
I'm very puzzled. Checking the band's website I find a series of ecstatic reviews for a great live band with a big future.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/356/ | 194 hits
CD Review: Pete's Sake - If that's what you really want
CD single from this Welsh 4-piece, pretty straight up SoCal sounding pop punk. Complete with American accent.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2470/ | 98 hits
CD single from this Welsh 4-piece, pretty straight up SoCal sounding pop punk. Complete with American accent.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2470/ | 98 hits
Live Review: 3 Colours Red
The reformation of the late-nineties' most brutal of crowd pleasers is welcome news as 3 Colours Red once again rock like Armageddon.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1057/ | 118 hits
The reformation of the late-nineties' most brutal of crowd pleasers is welcome news as 3 Colours Red once again rock like Armageddon.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1057/ | 118 hits
CD Review: Iggy Pop - Skull Ring
Billed as a solo album, Skull Ring is actually a collection of different collaborations. In the 'Welcome' category, he teams up with The Stooges again, The Trolls and everyone's favourite bearded lady, Peaches.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/632/ | 91 hits
Billed as a solo album, Skull Ring is actually a collection of different collaborations. In the 'Welcome' category, he teams up with The Stooges again, The Trolls and everyone's favourite bearded lady, Peaches.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/632/ | 91 hits
Interview: Kaiser Chiefs
After attending a sensational Ok Go! gig at Joseph's Well, Kaiser Chiefs' front man Ricky Wilson gave a quick insight into his feelings on the upcoming Brits and how the last 18 months has been for him and the rest of the band.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6231/ | 2,200 hits
After attending a sensational Ok Go! gig at Joseph's Well, Kaiser Chiefs' front man Ricky Wilson gave a quick insight into his feelings on the upcoming Brits and how the last 18 months has been for him and the rest of the band.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6231/ | 2,200 hits
CD Review: DanMoFo - 20 goto 10
For those unlucky enough never to have experienced the simple programming pleasures of using a ZX Spectrum the statement "20 goto 10" will have little meaning.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6953/ | 129 hits
For those unlucky enough never to have experienced the simple programming pleasures of using a ZX Spectrum the statement "20 goto 10" will have little meaning.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6953/ | 129 hits
Live Review: Kenosha
In the middle of the country's petrol crisis live music just doesn't get any breaks does it. Tonight was supposed to feature three bands, but we had just the two as Inhale had to pull due to transport problems.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/852/ | 128 hits
In the middle of the country's petrol crisis live music just doesn't get any breaks does it. Tonight was supposed to feature three bands, but we had just the two as Inhale had to pull due to transport problems.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/852/ | 128 hits
CD Review: Storyville - Untitled
The Storyville concept is sound. Excellent music kept simple enough to play live, and intelligent enough to reward repeated listening.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/110/ | 274 hits
The Storyville concept is sound. Excellent music kept simple enough to play live, and intelligent enough to reward repeated listening.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/110/ | 274 hits
CD Review: Four Tet - Smile Around The Face
Rejoice! The return of Four Tet has taken me by surprise. I thought he'd be away hibernating for the best part of five years, which is like, so hot right now.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3738/ | 367 hits
Rejoice! The return of Four Tet has taken me by surprise. I thought he'd be away hibernating for the best part of five years, which is like, so hot right now.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3738/ | 367 hits
CD Review: Kid iD - Broken Little Monkey EP
American styley alt-soft-rock-folksy voice boy Ralph Pelleymounter has emerged from the bottomless pit of solo acoustic performers and lends his sultry vocals to the backdrop of a full line up, thus Kid iD are born and henceforth comes this natty little EP.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4084/ | 561 hits
American styley alt-soft-rock-folksy voice boy Ralph Pelleymounter has emerged from the bottomless pit of solo acoustic performers and lends his sultry vocals to the backdrop of a full line up, thus Kid iD are born and henceforth comes this natty little EP.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4084/ | 561 hits
CD Review: Six By Seven - Ready For You Now
This is a right good conventional guitar/keyboards band doing a proper pop song with all the right ingredients and no artificial colouring.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2693/ | 215 hits
This is a right good conventional guitar/keyboards band doing a proper pop song with all the right ingredients and no artificial colouring.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2693/ | 215 hits
CD Review: Stereo 360 - Vaseline Mouth
I am in two minds with this CD - half of me quite likes it...no let me re-phrase that, half of me doesn't mind it!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/386/ | 109 hits
I am in two minds with this CD - half of me quite likes it...no let me re-phrase that, half of me doesn't mind it!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/386/ | 109 hits
CD Review: The Blueskins - User Friendly
An out of nowhere an A&R buzz for this mysterious band took a fair few folks on the scene by surprise around the turn of the year.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/292/ | 146 hits
An out of nowhere an A&R buzz for this mysterious band took a fair few folks on the scene by surprise around the turn of the year.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/292/ | 146 hits
Live Review: Cinerama
When I moved to Leeds 15 years ago, the first gig I saw was in Lister Park, Bradford, with a packed crowd enjoying the sounds of The Wedding Present, who were on a stage in the middle of a lake.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1304/ | 109 hits
When I moved to Leeds 15 years ago, the first gig I saw was in Lister Park, Bradford, with a packed crowd enjoying the sounds of The Wedding Present, who were on a stage in the middle of a lake.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1304/ | 109 hits
CD Review: Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya
Mutya, or Mutley as I like to refer to her, was once a member of the Sugababes. Did you know that? Course you did!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8663/ | 386 hits
Mutya, or Mutley as I like to refer to her, was once a member of the Sugababes. Did you know that? Course you did!
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/8663/ | 386 hits
CD Review: The Conway Story - Lunatic Perfume
Current music trends are always something you either ignore, or in this case, try to fit in as much as possible.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3603/ | 424 hits
Current music trends are always something you either ignore, or in this case, try to fit in as much as possible.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3603/ | 424 hits
Live Review: Sposh + Maria Leahy + Last Night's TV + Davina + Danny Carr
I enjoy acoustic music and being able to sit at tables is great (ok I admit it - I'm old... I like to sit down sometimes) I knew Danny Carr was playing, but wasn't sure what else was on.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1172/ | 346 hits
I enjoy acoustic music and being able to sit at tables is great (ok I admit it - I'm old... I like to sit down sometimes) I knew Danny Carr was playing, but wasn't sure what else was on.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1172/ | 346 hits
News Article: Mr Pasty @ St Bartholomew's Centre By John Hepworth
Stuff was still zooming along though, and door money (supporting learning disability projects) was transfigured by the value handed out by Mr Pasty, the band on stage at that moment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12223/ | 83 hits
Stuff was still zooming along though, and door money (supporting learning disability projects) was transfigured by the value handed out by Mr Pasty, the band on stage at that moment.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12223/ | 83 hits
CD Review: Chumbawamba - Un
Anyone who thought, like me, that after the success of the none-more-irritating 'Tubthumping' that Chumbawamba just simply vanished, are now obviously wrong.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2614/ | 698 hits
Anyone who thought, like me, that after the success of the none-more-irritating 'Tubthumping' that Chumbawamba just simply vanished, are now obviously wrong.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2614/ | 698 hits
CD Review: Parisman - Responsible for Everything EP
Parisman's "Responsible for Everything" EP starts in a blaze of unabashed Geetar Rock-disco synthesiser fusion.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/173/ | 152 hits
Parisman's "Responsible for Everything" EP starts in a blaze of unabashed Geetar Rock-disco synthesiser fusion.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/173/ | 152 hits
Live Review: The Smokestacks + Loqui + Mary Wanna Smile
Mary Wanna Smile were a very solid, straight-forward rock band, performing some well crafted acoustic ditties.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3079/ | 417 hits
Mary Wanna Smile were a very solid, straight-forward rock band, performing some well crafted acoustic ditties.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3079/ | 417 hits
CD Review: Plastik - How Much Is Enough?
London trio Plastik are straight down the middle Indie pop-rock merchants, unfazed by scratchy angular scenes that no doubt surround them and standing tall on the back of well written tunes rather than the right look.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6663/ | 116 hits
London trio Plastik are straight down the middle Indie pop-rock merchants, unfazed by scratchy angular scenes that no doubt surround them and standing tall on the back of well written tunes rather than the right look.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6663/ | 116 hits
CD Review: Herdwhite - Put Down Your Weapons
Andy Pegram sounds like more of a music lover and collector than a music creator. His solo digital empire runs to a lot of neat bits and pieces, lovingly spliced out of the earlier days of electronic dance euphoria.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2341/ | 168 hits
Andy Pegram sounds like more of a music lover and collector than a music creator. His solo digital empire runs to a lot of neat bits and pieces, lovingly spliced out of the earlier days of electronic dance euphoria.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2341/ | 168 hits
Live Review: Stonegroove + Southpaw Beats + Sarah Williams
The Queen's jubilee had offered many music events across the city, and I happened to wander in on the Anonymous Groove one at the dry dock.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/816/ | 101 hits
The Queen's jubilee had offered many music events across the city, and I happened to wander in on the Anonymous Groove one at the dry dock.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/816/ | 101 hits
Live Review: The Rapture + The Prosaics + Black Wire
It's an early start tonight at the Cockpit, it is 7:30 and Black Wire are already strutting their stuff on stage at their local.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1125/ | 338 hits
It's an early start tonight at the Cockpit, it is 7:30 and Black Wire are already strutting their stuff on stage at their local.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/1125/ | 338 hits
CD Review: Lemons and Limes - The Debut EP
Lemons and Limes, a new signing to Leeds-based GrooveStealer Records, get off to a great start on The Debut EP with opener Split Ends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7534/ | 187 hits
Lemons and Limes, a new signing to Leeds-based GrooveStealer Records, get off to a great start on The Debut EP with opener Split Ends.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7534/ | 187 hits
Interview: Vib Gyor
With Vib Gyor about to record their next single - "Secret" - Victoria Holdsworth caught up with the Leeds band at Beached 2006
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7290/ | 538 hits
With Vib Gyor about to record their next single - "Secret" - Victoria Holdsworth caught up with the Leeds band at Beached 2006
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7290/ | 538 hits
CD Review: The Minor Fall - s/t
Considering this Leeds supergroup's weight in their hometown since the release of this debut self-titled release, I almost didn't dare review this in case I didn't like it and they came and decked me.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6768/ | 255 hits
Considering this Leeds supergroup's weight in their hometown since the release of this debut self-titled release, I almost didn't dare review this in case I didn't like it and they came and decked me.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6768/ | 255 hits
CD Review: The Music - Getaway
They still look like extras from the rough council estate in The Bill but the 4 lads from Leeds have done pretty well for themselves in this their year of destiny.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/222/ | 616 hits
They still look like extras from the rough council estate in The Bill but the 4 lads from Leeds have done pretty well for themselves in this their year of destiny.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/222/ | 616 hits
CD Review: Massive Attack - 100th Window
Prior to their extensive (and expensive) U.K tour in April, Massive Attack have released their long awaited fifth album "100th Window".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/508/ | 105 hits
Prior to their extensive (and expensive) U.K tour in April, Massive Attack have released their long awaited fifth album "100th Window".
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/508/ | 105 hits
CD Review: Capri - Earth Songs
There's a world of male dreams, TV series and British films where the Ford Capri, wide lapels and the wah wah pedal combine to create power, speed and cool calculation.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/45/ | 206 hits
There's a world of male dreams, TV series and British films where the Ford Capri, wide lapels and the wah wah pedal combine to create power, speed and cool calculation.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/45/ | 206 hits
Live Review: Kinch
When a band of young lads turn up with cheeky grins, decent haircuts and a sack full of really catchy pop songs that they can perform with confident gusto, why the hell would anyone want another manufactured boy band embarrassment?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11184/ | 575 hits
When a band of young lads turn up with cheeky grins, decent haircuts and a sack full of really catchy pop songs that they can perform with confident gusto, why the hell would anyone want another manufactured boy band embarrassment?
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/11184/ | 575 hits
CD Review: Redcarsgofaster - 24 Passes
Because of the Leeds hype-machine-like tendency of the Dance to the Radio compilations, all of a sudden twenty-odd unknown bands all of a sudden get thrust into the limelight and we get to see what happens.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7790/ | 177 hits
Because of the Leeds hype-machine-like tendency of the Dance to the Radio compilations, all of a sudden twenty-odd unknown bands all of a sudden get thrust into the limelight and we get to see what happens.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/7790/ | 177 hits
CD Review: Every Move A Picture - Heart = Weapon
It seems that for every excellent darkwave indie infused rock band that have turned up on the mainstream's doorway in recent years, a veritable backlog of similar, wholly uninspiring bands have formed a bottleneck behind them.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6856/ | 364 hits
It seems that for every excellent darkwave indie infused rock band that have turned up on the mainstream's doorway in recent years, a veritable backlog of similar, wholly uninspiring bands have formed a bottleneck behind them.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6856/ | 364 hits
CD Review: The Barbs - Massive Crush
This must be the aural equivalent of what happens when one of those people who try to make themselves look like Dracula smiles 'cause they're, y'know, happy and stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3117/ | 842 hits
This must be the aural equivalent of what happens when one of those people who try to make themselves look like Dracula smiles 'cause they're, y'know, happy and stuff.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/3117/ | 842 hits
Interview: four day Hombre
After 7 years of showcasing, label bashing and touring, four day Hombre have finally completed their first album. "Experiments in Living" was recorded at Black Box studios in France with Dave Odlum and is set to be an epic of many proportions, if their latest single "The First Word is the Hardest" is anything to go by.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6432/ | 817 hits
After 7 years of showcasing, label bashing and touring, four day Hombre have finally completed their first album. "Experiments in Living" was recorded at Black Box studios in France with Dave Odlum and is set to be an epic of many proportions, if their latest single "The First Word is the Hardest" is anything to go by.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6432/ | 817 hits
CD Review: Palo Alto - Wades into Water
Palo Alto is a city in west California known for its electronics industry. It has got together as a huge band of 55,000 members, elected Elaine as their lead singer, signed to Valentine Records and produced "Wades into Water" its second release on said label.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/512/ | 195 hits
Palo Alto is a city in west California known for its electronics industry. It has got together as a huge band of 55,000 members, elected Elaine as their lead singer, signed to Valentine Records and produced "Wades into Water" its second release on said label.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/512/ | 195 hits
Band Profile: LITTLEgiants
LITTLEgiants' music is a unique blend of old time, blues, country, bluegrass, rockabilly and just about anything as long as it's raw, and passionate.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12283/ | 21 hits
LITTLEgiants' music is a unique blend of old time, blues, country, bluegrass, rockabilly and just about anything as long as it's raw, and passionate.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12283/ | 21 hits
Live Review: Kerouac
It's certainly an ambitious move to name your band after a bit of a left-field literary icon. As far as beat generation goes, old Jack is arguably the man and so you're always going to have to live up to that kind of expectation with those familiar with the object of your affection or demonstration of knowing cool.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/803/ | 102 hits
It's certainly an ambitious move to name your band after a bit of a left-field literary icon. As far as beat generation goes, old Jack is arguably the man and so you're always going to have to live up to that kind of expectation with those familiar with the object of your affection or demonstration of knowing cool.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/803/ | 102 hits
Interview: The Yards
Sam Saunders spoke to Chris Helme of the Yards in January 2004...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2261/ | 767 hits
Sam Saunders spoke to Chris Helme of the Yards in January 2004...
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2261/ | 767 hits
CD Review: The Cut - Walking Lonely Streets EP
Has anyone ever seen a really cheesy porno flick, or even a piss take of one? If you have then you will most likely have heard that defining music that plays in the background.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4359/ | 290 hits
Has anyone ever seen a really cheesy porno flick, or even a piss take of one? If you have then you will most likely have heard that defining music that plays in the background.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4359/ | 290 hits
CD Review: Heroes for Sale - Untitled
I will say right at the beginning that this CD gets steadily worse as it goes along. It starts off in the average-to-good category, a mixture of punk-metal but unfortunately peters off, with the last two live tracks not too inspiring to say the least.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/167/ | 100 hits
I will say right at the beginning that this CD gets steadily worse as it goes along. It starts off in the average-to-good category, a mixture of punk-metal but unfortunately peters off, with the last two live tracks not too inspiring to say the least.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/167/ | 100 hits
CD Review: Speed Circus - Rosie
I resisted this and it still won. Speed Circus can really do it: types of music that never grabbed me before have got me this time.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10449/ | 176 hits
I resisted this and it still won. Speed Circus can really do it: types of music that never grabbed me before have got me this time.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10449/ | 176 hits
Interview: Amsterdam
On the 17th December '05, I had the pleasure of meeting one of the hardest working front men in the music industry, Ian Prowse (no relation to the bloke that played Darth Vader). He is the lead singer with the band Amsterdam.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6364/ | 613 hits
On the 17th December '05, I had the pleasure of meeting one of the hardest working front men in the music industry, Ian Prowse (no relation to the bloke that played Darth Vader). He is the lead singer with the band Amsterdam.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6364/ | 613 hits
CD Review: The Palms - Untitled
The Palms really fit the modern day bill with their take on the current Indie rock / dance scene ala Kasabian, but one or too vocal production issues and an occasional penchant for misguided fret-wanking hold them back from hitting the full throttle.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4299/ | 392 hits
The Palms really fit the modern day bill with their take on the current Indie rock / dance scene ala Kasabian, but one or too vocal production issues and an occasional penchant for misguided fret-wanking hold them back from hitting the full throttle.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/4299/ | 392 hits
CD Review: Flaccid Soapher - Untitled
Flaccid Soapher are a four piece rock'n'roll band from Halifax. They call themselves experimental, but the sound on this CD is straight down the middle smalltown heavy guitar music built in four bar chunks with a blues foundation.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/67/ | 118 hits
Flaccid Soapher are a four piece rock'n'roll band from Halifax. They call themselves experimental, but the sound on this CD is straight down the middle smalltown heavy guitar music built in four bar chunks with a blues foundation.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/67/ | 118 hits
Band Profile: Accept Decline
NEWS 05/03/2009 - We have just finished recording our EP which is free to download, you can also listen online at our MySpace page.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10427/ | 110 hits
NEWS 05/03/2009 - We have just finished recording our EP which is free to download, you can also listen online at our MySpace page.
www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/10427/ | 110 hits