Britpop Reviews
The Bluetones: Nottingham – live review
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The Bluetones 20th Anniversary Jukebox Tour rolls into Rock City in Nottingham, bringing humour and beauty to a set built around Britpop nostalgia
False Heads: Steal and Cheat – single review
Young East London upstarts False Heads return with a brand new single 'Steal and Cheat, their first for Gary Powell's 25 Hour Convenience Store. When...
Shed Seven / Inspiral Carpets: Nottingham – live review
Shed Seven bring their now traditional Christmas tour to Rock City for a festive sing-a-long and support from Inspiral Carpets
Madness: Madstock – album / dvd review
Madness: Madstock (Salvo Sound & Vision) CD+DVD Out Now 8/10 In 1992, six years after the band had originally split up, London's Madness reformed to play the biggest...
Menace Beach: Super Transportereum – album review
Menace Beach - Super Transportereum (Memphis Industries)
EP | DL
Available from Sept 25
8.5/10 Menace Beach are on a roll. Despite releasing their full-length album Ratworld a...
Orphan Boy: Coastal Tones – album review
Orphan Boy - Coastal Tones (Concrete Recordings) Out Not CD/DL 9.5/10 Cleethorpes-based indie oiks Orphan Boy make good on a five year promise by delivering what is arguably...
Ash: Kablammo! – album review
Downpatricks merry pop-punk pranksters Ash return with best album since Meltdown.
The Cathode Ray: Infinite Variety – album review
Louder Than War reviews 'Infinite Variety', the second album by arch pop-conceptualists The Cathode Ray.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Capital FM Arena, Nottingham – live review w/ full photo gallery
Noel's charisma and talent at writing a decent song or two makes him play arenas with unforgivale ease.
Darren Hayman: Chants for Socialists – album review
Darren Hayman: Chants for Socialists (wiaiwya) CD / LP / DL Available now Darren Hayman transforms these nineteenth-century political poems into a soothing balm for our troubled...
Luke Haines: Islington Assembly Hall – live review
Luke Haines plays his recently released "Adventures in Dementia" micro opera with large chunks from his Psychedelic Trilogy and a few Auteurs tracks for good measure. Louder Than War's Craig Chaligne reviews.
The Charlatans: Modern Nature – album review
The twelfth album from The Charlatans is one of the band's best - a spun out affirmation, burning bright with brilliant melodies.
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Fold: The Prize – single review
Fold: The Prize
(Fold FM)
Digital Download/Streaming
Available now Yorkshire’s Fold are an intoxicating musical blend of funk,...
Duncan Reid & the Big Heads: Don’t Blame Yourself – album review and interview
Duncan Reid and the Big Heads: Don't Blame Yourself Little Big Head Records Out Now LP/CD/DL Duncan...
Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson – Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow – book review
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Jonny Banger: Diary of a Bootlegger – book review
Diary of a Bootlegger (Rough Trade Books)
Out Now Diary of a Bootlegger tells a story...
Nile Marr : interview about his new EP and a musician’s life
The most important thing is that you come away with art. I’m getting to the age where there’s no point complaining about a lack of something happening, no excuse for it if you’re not going to do it yourself. I’ve always had that DIY approach to my own music.”
