Tag: 80s pop
Badly Drawn Boy: Banana Skin Shoes – album review
BADLY DRAWN BOY
BANANA SKIN SHOES
AWAL
LP / CD / DL / Bundles
Out 22nd May 2020
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Badly Drawn Boy returns with his ninth album, Banana Skin...
Friends Again – Trapped And Unwrapped – album review
Friends Again - Trapped And Unwrapped
Cherry Red
2CD/DL
Released 29th November 2019
Expanded 2 disc reissue of the Glasgow pop band's sole album, with a whole raft...
Let’s Rock – the Retro Festival: Southampton – live review
Live Review
Let's Rock Southampton
Southampton Common
6th July 2019
Review of the one day 80s Retro festival by second generation Louder Than War writer Lora Canty, with...
Cheekbones (Chkbns) – Autwik LP
St Petersburg’s Cheekbones (Chkbns) release Autwik, a lush, demure debut of outsider pop.
Bad Manners – The Albums 1980-85 – Album Review
Album Review
Bad Manners - The Albums 1980-85
Pressure Drop
5CD/DL
Released 31st August 2018
Boxset bringing together the five albums released by Ska band Bad Manners during the...
LIVE
Six Of The Best Sets At Loftas Fest 2020
From toe-tapping rock n’ roll to darkly ethereal modular synthpop - discover highlights from the vibrant Loftas...
INTERVIEWS
Diversity in Deventer – Esc.rec Label Feature
A major feature on Esc.rec, of the most intriguing independent labels in the Netherlands
NEWS
Recently rebranded Eat Your Own Head premier suitably spooky titled new single Poltergeist
Norwich math-rockers premiere visceral new single following rebrand.
MEDIA
Made in Hong Kong – film review
Made in Hong Kong (1997)
Director: Fruit ChanCast: Sam Lee, Yim Hui-Chi, Wenders Li
Running time: 108 minutes
Language: Cantonese...
FESTIVALS
Six Of The Best Sets At Loftas Fest 2020
From toe-tapping rock n’ roll to darkly ethereal modular synthpop - discover highlights from the vibrant Loftas...
