Liverpool Sound City 2012
Writer Profile: Pete Hughes
Pete Hughes
Location: Laaaandan
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Mojito! I don't think it's a gay drink.
1st Music Purchase: Shania Twain - That don't impress me much!
Best Famous Beard: Brad Pitt's 5 o'clock shadow
Guilty Pleasure: The midnight BLT
Favourite Saying: Smack into it
Twitter: @nairobiband
My recent activity
Gig
The Jive monkey is one of those innocuous little clubs that make you feel like you’ve earned your music and beer just by finding it. Tonight’s benefit (raising money for the musicians performing) has been organised by the illustrious...
Interview
Tall Ships sail schizo-frenetically between genres without maps or atlases, jack-knifing in the middle of songs between Two Door disco archipelago and the port of Beirut. Live, they have an aggression which picks up exactly where bands like Hell is...
Gig
I have never seen Amadou and Mariam live before; I don’t even really know the band, which is part of the reason I wanted to see them. It also meant I had no idea what to expect. The husband and wife duo from Mali appeared on the darkened stage...
Interview
Pete Hughes sat down to tea with Katzenjammer before their gig at Scala.
Recently Katzenjammer posted on facebook: “How did you discover Katzenjammer?” and serendipity seemed to play a large role in many of the 750 responses....
Gig
Oxfordian pop sultans Jonquil rode their camels all the way to Hoxton on Wednesday to disabuse the locals of the illusion that they had heretofore rocked.
Hundreds of denizens squashed like pop-hungry cattle into the crowded back room of The...
Gig
After trawling Dalston for jazz bars like a cross between Howard Moon and Goldilocks, we eventually pull a Nicobobinus and find the Servant Jazz Quarters was under our collective nose the whole time, a tiny little East London hideaway with nothing...
