ALBUM REVIEW – JOHN GRANT: THE ART OF THE LIE

With his debut solo release in 2010, ‘Queen of Denmark’, John Grant established himself as one of the supreme balladeers, blessed with a velvet voice like the most enveloping and reassuring hug. This style highlighted his unique talent as a lyricist, an ability to sugar troubling personal experience with humour. However, as listeners to his […]
John Grant is blessed with a glorious, honeyed voice. Early in his solo career, he lived up to the cliché about being able to make anything sound good by turning a list of the items for sale in his childhood sweet shop into the most wonderful confection full of wonder and longing (‘Marz’). At Manchester […]

LIVE REVIEW: JOHN GRANT SINGS THE SONGS OF PATSY CLINE WITH RICHARD HAWLEY AND BAND 11/07/2023

LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2019

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- Thursday Arriving at the festival late Thursday afternoon, we are just in time for Emma Gene Thackery. After finding a space in the busy camping ground to pitch, we make our first journey through the festival grounds. The festival is full, ready for the Halle Orchestra who are just as much […]
Solo project of Midlake’s Paul Alexander, Two Medicine has today shared an acoustic version of the previously released single “Gold”.  The video featuring Paul Alexander and vocalist Aimee Adams, who will tour as part of Two Medicine this autumn, fades between a studio and a forest setting and is, according to Alexander, about “how our ancestors […]
Two Medicine

TWO MEDICINE SHARES VIDEO FOR “GOLD”, TAKEN FROM THE DEBUT ALBUM “ASTROPSYCHOSIS”

LIVE: ELBOW / JOHN GRANT – 04/03/2018

-MANCHESTER ARENA- It’s not often that support bands appeal so accurately to the main act’s crowd, but many have made the extra effort to get in early tonight to see John Grant. It’s easy to see why he appeals to Elbow fans, as his songs have a certain depth to them; whether it’s the slow […]
U.S. folk and synth man John Grant unveils the brand new video for “Global Warming”, taken from his latest record ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’ (2015). In what has been an eventful and fruitful past few years for the former Czars member, Grant has brought his “A” game to this frightening and rather poetic video. Directed […]

JOHN GRANT GETTING HOT AND BOTHERED

JOHN GRANT UNVEILS VIDEO TO NEW SINGLE ‘VOODOO DOLL’

Following a sold-out Jan & Feb tour in support of third album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, and soon to return to these shores for more headline and festival dates, JOHN GRANT has today unveiled a video to new single ‘Voodoo Doll‘, the album’s freakiest and funkiest track. Directed by The Diamond Brothers, an identical twin directing team known for the Danko […]
– THE ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER – In a year where the great and the good are checking out at an alarming rate, it is important that we appreciate those still walking amongst us.  John Grant is such an individual. Thankfully that appears to be the case, if the praise for his latest album and string […]

LIVE: JOHN GRANT – 08/02/2016

END OF YEAR 2015 – BOBBY COLCOMBE

ALBUMS Chastity Belt – Time to Go Home The Seattle band’s second LP is a brilliant testament to drunken mayhem and pondering self-reflection. Sounding a little like an all female version of DIIV. It is lyrically very open to confronting past regrets whilst, at the same time, feeling sedated to them and looking forward. Chiming […]
with his new album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure riding high in the end of year lists, John Grant has today unveiled an irresistible video for new single ‘Down Here‘. Directed by the very talented Lisa Gunning (Seven Psychopaths, Nowhere Boy) and set in London suburbia, the video features a teenager who dreams of becoming a synchronised swimmer. But will […]

JOHN GRANT UNVEILS VIDEO TO NEW SINGLE ‘DOWN HERE’