Talking Waco, Lloyd Webber and the music industry with Simon Indelicate
The Indelicates have never been a predictable band. With their second album, 2010′s ‘Songs for Swinging Lovers‘, founder members Julia and Simon made a radical move – escaping the established record...
View ArticleSalem, songwriting, and learning to sing – an interview with Eddie Argos
Here’s an interview that originally appeared on the ITV Wales site. It’s always a pleasure to watch Art Brut perform. Once described as “Stephen Fry fronting Guns N’ Roses”, the band is touring in...
View Article“You can be angry and have fun!”– Pris interview
This has also appeared on the ITV Wales blog… With perfect pop, DIY videos, and a wonderfully brash Twitter account to their name, Pris have already picked up quite a following. Formed little...
View Article“I don’t want to expand my audience… I want to refine it”– an interview with...
This post originally appeared on the ITV Wales blog It’s hard to think of another band quite like Throwing Muses. Fronted by guitarist/singer Kristin Hersh, the Boston quartet released a series of...
View ArticleJonathan Richman – Clwb Ifor Bach
Barely three songs into the set, Jonathan Richman has stopped playing. “It feels like… we’re too far away” he says. Briefly deliberating with the only other band member, longtime drummer Tommy Larkins,...
View ArticleThis is what they’re like – Dexys, Parc & Dare Theatre, 04/05/2012
Kevin Rowland knows how to test the devotion of his fans. Situated in the heart of the Rhondda Valley, Treorchy’s Parc & Dare Theatre isn’t the most like;y venue with which to kick off a UK tour....
View ArticlePaul Heaton’s ‘The 8th’– Barbican, London, 6th July 2012
Here’s a review originally published on Louder Than War. “What did you make of that then?” asks Paul Heaton. It’s the first night of the tour for his soul opera ‘The 8th’, following a brief run at the...
View ArticlePete Williams – the Lexington, London, 13th August 2012
Spent Monday night in London after a short trip abroad. By a happy coincidence, Dexys stalwart Pete Williams and his band were playing a show at the Lexington. The set was mainly drawn from his new...
View ArticleAre the Pixies recording a new album in Wales?
Frank Black fronting the Pixies at the Brixton Academy, London in 2009. Credit – Mike Griffiths Whatever Frank Black is recording right now, it’s a project to which he’s given serious thought. In an...
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