Time for T – Time for T Price £5 Characterised by classic luscious guitar tones and musical arrangements that could have come straight from the 60's and 70's heyday the band draw…
Album Reviews
Viet Cong – Viet Cong
Viet Cong conjure up a disjointed Indie album that is stuck inside a foreboding Post Punk experimentalism. The four piece from Calgary, Canada, consist of two members of the short lived rock band, Women. In 2010, Women entered indefinite hiatus after the band had an on stage brawl with each…
Ben Ottewell – Rattlebag (Sunday Best)
Although the psychedelic blues pop rockers Gomez played a couple of gigs recently – their first for two years – Ben Ottewell's solo career appears to be gaining some momentum. Indeed, it just been announced that he has been invited to the world famous SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
Jo Harman and Company – Live at the Royal Albert Hall
With a musical background that includes the bassoon (!) and a wealth of experience as a singer in cover bands, the Devon-raised Jo Harman eventually gained the power of her convictions to try and strike out as a singer and songwriter of original material. Steeped in classic rock and…
My Accomplice – Original Soundtrack Recording
My Accomplice is a new film by a Brighton writer and director Charlie Rolfe who we met at Latest TV where he was being interviewed for the Brighton Lights show. The soundtrack to the film is jam full of great local bands including Sally Megee, Transformer, Bob Wants His…
Pink Floyd – The Endless River
"We certainly had an unspoken understanding… but a lot things were left unsaid," can be discerned in the background as Pink Floyd's unexpected, and first 'new' album for 20 years opens up in classic Floydian fashion; distant voices of the band, within the brooding, effects-laden, gentle washes of synths.
Martha Tilston – The Sea
Eschewing folk music in favour of the alternative festival scene from the early noughties onwards, the former Brighton girl Martha Tilston has, over the last decade, matured and grown in stature as an independent musician – all her albums have been self-financed with a strong social conscience – but who…
Naomi Bedford – History of Insolence
Local lass Naomi Bedford has been singing her heart out in Brighton and beyond for over a decade now, slowly but surely winning new fans as she continues to branch out from her folk roots background, delving deeperinto the folk of America, while forming new musical alliances,…
Thieves By The Code – Tales From The Green Muse
Thieves By The Code have been around on the local scene for a while, releasing several EP’s and working their way through several line-up changes before settling into the current group of singing guitarist Alex Sinesi, bass player and backing vocalist Stefan Sidoli and Nick Van Vlaenderen who plays…
Sam Walker – Point
Sam Walker is one of those local musicians who pops up all over the place. Previously he performed his solo material under the moniker 'The Muel', releasing several limited edition albums including the lo-fi 'Rough In The Bedroom' and 'Portholes' before culminating in 'Once At Everywhere', a more polished collection of songs which…