INTERVIEW: BC CAMPLIGHT – WE CHAT ABOUT THE STUNNING NEW ALBUM ‘LAST ROTATION OF EARTH’, AND HOW HIS MUSIC SPRINGS FROM SO MUCH MORE THAN THE PREDICTABLE TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY TAG.

“Whenever people ask where are you from? I say Manchester”, says Brian ‘BC Camplight’ Christinzio, as we sit in a bar in Chorlton in the late afternoon sunshine discussing his love of his adopted hometown, and the upheavals which have led to his astounding new album ‘The Last Rotation Of Earth’. It’s been a long […]
Since 2005, Field Music have released a string of consistently pleasing records via Memphis Industries, virtually developing a template for sustaining creativity over a lengthy period while gaining sufficient sales to dent the album charts. In addition, David Brewis has recorded three albums under the guise of School of Language but this month sees the […]

INTERVIEW: DAVID BREWIS DISCUSSES HIS NEW ALBUM, RECORD LABEL, FIELD MUSIC AND THE LIFE OF DIY RECORDING ARTISTS

INTERVIEW: MOGWAI – STUART BRAITHWAITE SPEAKS TO US AHEAD OF TWO MANCHESTER GIGS, REISSUES OF THE FIRST TWO ALBUMS AND DISCUSSES HIS RECENTLY RELEASED AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PLUS THAT AMAZING NUMBER ONE ALBUM “I THINK I WAS PUTTING THE BINS OUT WHEN WE FOUND OUT”

Writers, me included, have been tripping up over our words trying to describe Mogwai’s sound for decades. We can go on endlessly about their ability to create huge sounding records, matched with a delicate side to their craft that’s just as spellbinding, yet at the end of the day, they’re four down to earth blokes […]
Luis Roberts is a Welsh wonder! A songwriter who sings in the Welsh language, yet his songs have a universal appeal, steeped in a gentle folk psych pop forest of lush melodies, delicate guitars and pianos. His debut album ‘Cloeon’ has hints of Talk Talk’s expansive soundings, mixed with Elbow’s subtle melodic ways, and is […]

INTERVIEW: LUIS ROBERTS – NEW WELSH WONDER RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM: A DELICATE FEAST OF FOLK POP WITH HINTS OF TALK TALK AND ELBOW, A WELSH LANGUAGE ALBUM WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ALBUMS YOU’LL HEAR ALL YEAR

INTERVIEW: CLAIRE WELLES – LIVERPUDLIAN QUEEN OF ELECTRO POP, HAS SUPPORTED TIM BURGESS AND JANE WEAVER, NOW RELEASES NEW ALBUM

Claire Welles creates an electronic kaleidoscope of sounds, with lyrics spanning an ocean of topics from snooker, self doubt, motivation, and social media trolls to finding true friendships and the sheer joy of creating music, all delivered with her astutely observed take on life. She has previously supported Tim Burgess and Jane Weaver amongst others, […]
Ceramic Animal play a blues inspired rock that caught the ear of Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, who liked them so much he signed them to his own Easy Eye Sound label, and has produced their latest album ‘Sweet Unknown’. Hailing from  Pennsylvania, the band create a lush densely melodic sound, somewhere between War On […]

FEATURE: CERAMIC ANIMAL – NEW ALBUM PRODUCED BY DAN AUERBACH OF THE BLACK KEYS

INTERVIEW: EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY – PLAYING BAND ON THE WALL 3RD MARCH 2022

Emma-Jean Thackray has been storming the world of jazz since her debut album ‘Yellow’ was released in 2021, a gorgeous cocktail of 70’s style psych-funk, jazzy brass riffs and groove laden tunes. The album rocketed to number one in the Jazz and Blues Chart, and opened the doors for many into the world of psych […]
It’s amazing what you can learn these days, the fact you can’t get mushy peas from chip shops in Australia, is my newly acquired fact of the day. As Amyl And The Sniffers guitarist, Dec Martens, waits for his chippy order in Melbourne, by the magic of zoom we’re all together on screen to discuss […]

INTERVIEW: AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS – THEY’VE CREATED ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS YOU’LL HEAR ALL YEAR….

INTERVIEW: DEAD NATURE – FORMER SPRING KING BAND MEMBER TAREK MUSA IS BACK WITH ASTOUNDING DEBUT ALBUM

‘Watch Me Break Apart’ is the brilliant debut album from Dead Nature, the new musical project of former Spring King man Tarek Musa. It’s a shimmering indie-pop album brimming with fuzzed up melodies and a firm DIY ethos, produced in Tarek’s own Musa Studio in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. We caught up with him to discuss […]
You hear about bands who have met at work, college, school etc, but not so much ones who met at a distant relatives funeral! That’s how Rick and Jen, distant cousins with musical aspirations, first began the electro powerhouse that would become Oh Baby. Now with the brilliant new album ‘Hey Genius’ out, we caught […]

INTERVIEW: OH BABY – MANCHESTER/LONDON ELECTRO DUO WITH NEW ALBUM INSPIRED BY OMD, GARY NUMAN, HUMAN LEAGUE BUT WITH A MODERN TWIST ALL OF THEIR OWN