About Me
Music journalist and writer for Leeds Music Scene.
Hello, I'm Lauren, I love music more than most things in this existence, I write lots, I drink a fair bit, I read not as much as I should do and I sleep even less than that.
Ali Whitton and the Broke Record Players
Empty Threats and Recurring Themes
Various Artists
I Can Count Volume One
Juma
Shotgun / Icons
ˇForward, Russia!
The scheme brewing in the collective mind of ˇForward, Russia!, Leeds' pioneers of screeching, mercurial noise, is a simple one. It goes like this...
Ali Whitton
Lauren Strain caught up with Ali Whitton at Manchester's Dry Bar to look back on a busy 2005 for the songwriter, which included an appearance at Leeds Festival and saw the release of his "Kisses" and "Curses" EPs.
Young Professionals
Pleasure Time
Arctic Monkeys
"I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", Arctic Monkeys' second single and first full-scale release, has shifted a rattling avalanche of around 33,000 copies thus far whilst simultaneously thrusting a very sharp, very painful spear labelled "Reality Check" up the rear end of the boring, apathetic public.
The Delamores
Live @ Escobar (Wakefield) on Monday, 22nd August 2005
She's Not Dead
Together We Are Strangers
Pollen
Soldier On
The Alps
Untitled
Surferosa
Satin Con Blonde
Pollen
Lonely In The Crowd
Jesse Malin
Upon entering Jesse Malin's dressing room at Sheffield's Club Zero we encounter not only the man himself but also a bowl of jelly babies. This can only be a good thing...
The Sunshine Underground
My Army EP
Liam Stone
I Didn't See My Reflection For The Entire Month Of March
The Myth
Untitled
The Rocks
Can You Hear Me?
