Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist (Review)

I can thank Capital FM for my new found love of Macklemore Vs Ryan Lewis. Not Hipster FM, not Vice, not even the once was cool Chris Moyles’ FM but Capital; in true ironic hipster style, commercial FM bought the freshest rapper this side of the Beaconsfield’s Starbucks to my Enterprise rental’s speakers. I’m as

Favourite reviews #2 Rolo Tomassi (live)

Date: 04/02/08 Venue: The Zodiac at the Academy, Oxford As a stark contrast, Rolo Tomassi are a far cry from the tender twinkles provided earlier by This Town Needs Guns, inhabiting a tenacious space someplace left of post-hardcore. Eva Spence is mesmerising – “A little girl out there, caught in the hands of a drowning

Favourite reviews #1 Gallows – Grey Britain

Gallows – Grey Britain Label: Warners Release date: 4/05/09 There’s something about growing up in the 80s, which fills you with a, perhaps unnecessarily, bright outlook on life. People had money (we think they were called yuppies), and our lifelong ambitions involved growing up so we could have one of those brick mobiles you saw

3 OH 3 – WANT

3 OH 3 – WANT Imagine, if you will, a maxxed up Vauxhall Nova circulating your leafy suburban avenue. Your middle class, parental, eyes are popping out of their sockets. Your lovely, well bought up, university graduate offspring has gone and bought themselves the chav automobile couture of choice, because they tell you, gratuitously, in

Gallows – Grey Britain

Gallows – Grey Britain There’s something about growing up in the 80s, which fills you with a perhaps unnecessarily bright outlook on life. People had money (we think they were called yuppies), and our lifelong ambitions involved growing up so we could have one of those brick mobiles you saw on Beverley Hills 90210, or

Kerrang Tours : Bring Me the Horizon [& Sylosis] @ Camden Barfly

Bring Me the Horizon [& Sylosis] @ Camden Barfly 19/08/2008 The first thing that strikes you about BMTH has to be the hair. We’re not usually so fickle, or shallow, when it comes to our music. It’s ability before aesthetics as a general rule; but, there’s just something so damn perfect about their hair, that

Kerrang Tours: You Me at Six & Rolo Tomassi @ Camden Barfly

You Me at Six & Rolo Tomassi @ Camden Barfly 18/08/2008 Sometimes you can get a bit ‘been there, seen that’ when you see bands more than once. Maybe it’s that they’ve nothing new to showcase or that they’re bored with doing the same set over and over again, and need to enliven their live

Download Festival – Saturday (Day 2)

Download – Day 2 (Saturday) Day two starts early for us at Gigwise, as we’re in desperate need of some sustenance after a heavy night before. We manage to catch hardcore (screamo) inspired band, Alesana, who, despite looking as scenecore as we suspect is humanly possible, scream down the Turborg stage. Despite having two albums

Download Festival – Friday (Day 1)

Download – Day 1 (Friday) So the weather is warm as Gigwise arrive at Download. With press passes tightly secured around our wrists, we head off to catch some rays/bands. The beers are flowing nicely so we’re well lubricated to check out some of the great bands on show. We head over to the Media

[album] Rotary Ten – These Are Our Hands

[album] Rotary Ten – These Are Our Hands (Xtra Mile) Released: 2/06/2008 Rating: 5/5 Rotary Ten appear to be yet another band coming out of the very influential Kinsella school of thought posturing complex acoustic structures that could have been tapped right out of Mike’s mathy fortress. For two brothers from Chicago, Illinois (Sufjan anyone?),