Author: Alex Kirk
“Neighbourhood Void bring their usual bag of tricks, packed with grunge and precision and disaffected youth, and it’s enough to tear down any wall you’d care to point at. A bubbling, fiery rage fuels every song, all creative destruction and righteous fury, a searing blast of heat and giddy joy. Smash it up.” Gallery Learn […]
“Jet City Sports Club go high-voltage this whole set, with every bit of crackling fizz they own lighting up a granite sky. With a gimlet eye for a melody, it’s all built on shoulder-twitching rhythms, guitars and song bursting through the clouds. Vitamin D for the soul.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
Tommy Gun @ Factory Theatre, 10th Jul
“Tommy Gun’s set is the sound of falling into a dream sleep, floating and pillowy but with a tinge of surrealist danger lurking in the background. Packed with twang, there’s also enough thrust and lift under the wings to clear the cloud cover even on this soggy afternoon.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | […]
Suzi @ Oxford Art Factory, 9th Jul
“Suzi – annoyingly – has more than one boss-level talent. It would usually be enough for one person to be satisfied with writing and singing songs with power, skill, empathy, and insight. Just to rub it in though – and in the same way that Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison used to, God rest him – […]
“You have to love a two-piece guitar-and-drums outfit like Mimi The Desert Pearl that adds a member, but that member is another guitarist. Bass? Hell no, more guitars. I look forward to them adding a third and then a fourth. Before that happy day though, we can still bathe in 100% more six-string fun than […]
Amends @ Oxford Art Factory, 9th Jul
“Amends’ singer Luke McDonald plays solo tonight, showing the bones of these wonderful songs. The full band version – live or on record – is wide and rich and expansive, a desert shot on 70mm film. Without the band the strength and heart at the core of the music is sharper, not diminished. If you […]