Liverpool Sound City 2012
#Chemikal Underground
Album Review
Holy Mountain / Earth Measures
Holy Mountain are a three-piece from where I'm fae. Glasgow. I'd have went to see them the other night for the album launch if it wasn’t for the police from preventing me. Holy Mountain look like a real band. Three cunts with long hair...
Gig
What can you say about Arab Strap? A rather odd-sounding Scottish group driven by two equally odd Scottish chaps in Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, known for their melancholy tunes of drunken mishaps, failed relationships and the trials and...
Gig
The moon's huge tonight, a massive golden-brown poppadom hovering over Manchester. Having narrowly avoided a road traffic accident, Team Beard makes for the warmth and splendour of the Deaf Institute. In 'Everything's Getting Older...
News Article
Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells of Arab Strap fame have some pretty awesome Beards; they have honed their facial decorations over their almost ten year strong friendship throughout various separate musical apparitions. However, Monday is a special day...
Gig
Clitheroe has a castle, it's also famous for sausages and its very low crime rate. Whether these things are linked or not i don't know but apparently a cheeky chappy called Tom Platts steals the nativity crib from the park gate every year...
Interview
Hot on the heels of their critically acclaimed debut 'Checkmate Savage', the always enigmatic 'The Phantom Band' have wasted no time in bringing to us their astonishing follow up 'The Wants'. Like its predecessor, 'The...
Album Review
The Phantom Band / The Wants
I jokingly said that all the review for this album needs to say is “This album is like, really, REALLY good. Go get it.” Because it like, really, REALLY is. There were a couple of tracks on the 2009 debut Checkmate...
