Clinic – I’m Aware Clinic’s I’m Aware is evenly spread across its three minutes of running time. The band hints at its affinity for minor, slightly uncomfortable chords throw a wrench into the natural sense of how a song should…
Live: Mariner’s Children and Tristram
It was a windy night and the sun had begun to sink into the horizon, when a crowd of folk-loving youths sat their bottoms onto the deck of the Tamesis Dock, a boat moored along the south side of the…
Allotment returns with David Dondero
After a brief hiatus, FFS and Anika in London‘s Allotment night is back. On 28th August at The Gallery Cafe in Bethnal Green (my favourite place in the world, ever) we’re bringing you US songwriter David Dondero, who has toured…
Double EP: Twin Sister – Colour Your Life and Vampires With Dreaming Kids
What a sweet prospect this double EP from Twin Sister is. The sleeve of Color Your Life features a dollhouse furnished by lead singer Andrea Estella, fuzzily nostalgic, like an old Polaroid, and the sounds within are appropriately dreamy and…
Festival: Moor Music Fest
I so wanted to get through this review without using the words ‘mini Glastonbury of the north’, but there it is. I’ve gone and bloody done it in the first sentence. The truth is, though, that’s exactly what Moor Music…
Preview: River Rat Pack All Dayer
At a bit of a loss for things to get up to over the bank holiday weekend? (It’s the last weekend of August, in case you don’t have a calendar or something). There’s a day’s worth of musical delights on…