May 19, 2013You’d be forgiven for thinking that Peter Bruntnell is American. For a start, although he isn’t too keen on the expression, the songs and structures on his most recent CD, the best-selling “Normal For Bridgwater” fit firmly into the “alt-country” bracket, and he acknowledges the effect that Neil Young’s “After The Goldrush” has had on [...]
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May 19, 2013It was back in the late seventies and early eighties that John Parish was to be found, playing either drums or guitar, round the lesser-known music venues of the south of England in various small-time punk or new wave bands with names like The Headless Horsemen or Automatic Dlamini. Following that, John went on to [...]
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May 19, 2013What’s in a name? Well, Patty Hurst Shifter, the pride of Raleigh, North Carolina, get asked about theirs all the time, but that’s not the only problem. On their recent UK tour, guitarist Marc E. Smith had to put up with audience members calling out for Fall songs, while drummer Skillet Gilmore had to cope [...]
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May 19, 2013A unique new style of show featuring two of the world’s finest songwriters, Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson, rolls into Portsmouth on May 30th. Can it be mere coincidence that Portsmouth is the city chosen to be the first on the eight-date UK tour? Yes, according to Joe, who although famously faithful to the maritime [...]
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May 19, 2013Your blood may run cold but it’s a heart-warming story. 63 year old Bob Frank’s first and last album was released by the Vanguard label in 1972. Although he never stopped writing songs, he has spent the entire interim working in Oakland as an “irrigation specialist”. This is not the sort of person who, in [...]
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May 19, 2013It was certainly one of the the more original reasons for leaving a band: “Health Differences” were what caused Christian Smith Pancorvo to quit the Razorlight fold at a rather crucial stage of the band’s career, namely just as their first album “Up All Night” was being released in the UK. Andy Burrows, in a [...]
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May 19, 2013From Portland, Oregon, here’s a brand-new band … hold on, they may be brand new to UK audiences, but in February 2005, Richmond Fontaine celebrates its tenth anniversary. Let Willy Vlautin introduce his band to you and explain the fantastic things that have happened to them over the past year: “Well, first is Dan Eccles, [...]
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May 19, 2013It’s half an hour after opening time and in time-honoured tradition, the queue stretches “round the block”. Not bad for a band whose live UK record so far stretches to a brief tour of tiny venues and some cancelled support dates with Clinic. The Bravery are late because they have arrived from Holland for this, [...]
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May 19, 2013Jesse Malin’s old band D Generation was often compared to the New York Dolls, and there’s definitely a bit of Johnny Thunders in him. His first solo album was called “the Fine Art Of Self Destruction”, but Jesse goes about things differently from Thunders’ particular style of self-destruction: He takes his band, gets out on [...]
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May 19, 2013It doesn’t happen often. You walk into some nondescript club and the support band knocks you for six. Yet that was the case at Edinburgh’s Venue when Sons and Daughters opened for Nina Nastasia at the back end of last year. The audience inched closer to the stage, sensing that they were in on the [...]
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