Archive for November, 2011

Live Review: Wild Beasts at Concorde 2, Brighton 26/11/11

It’s the morning after Wild Beasts played in Brighton and I’ve just put their 2011 album, Smother, on the stereo. I might as well be back at the Concorde 2. Note for note, this sounds exactly the same. To complain about a band playing their songs so that they sound like their songs might seem [ READ MORE ]

Live Review: Summer Camp at The Green Door Store, Brighton 19/11/11

The lights go down and the crowd goes quiet. The strumming of an acoustic guitar and the opening lines to ‘Better Off Without You’ become audible but there’s no one on stage. Heads turn to the back of The Green Door Store and from behind a curtain emerges Elizabeth Sankey singing at the top of [ READ MORE ]

Live Review: The Fall at Concorde 2, Brighton 17/11/2011

Mark E Smith is squaring up to me and everyone else in the audience. The bloody cheek of us Fall heads having paid £20 a ticket to come and see his band. How dare we? And they are his band. Within minutes the Fall front-man is asserting his authority by turning down the amps of [ READ MORE ]

Live Review: Scroobius Pip at Coalition, Brighton 11/11/2011

From the moment the doors opened at The Coalition on Friday night Scroobius Pip was manning the merchandise stall. With an album, book, t-shirts and hats on sale, the most hirsute man in British hip-hop was posing for photos, shaking hands and signing each and every item he sold as his fans crossed his palm [ READ MORE ]

Live Preview: The Fall at Concorde 2, Brighton 17/11/2011

  • November 14th, 2011
  • Posted in Preview

The miserable growl of Mark E. Smith and the latest incarnation of The Fall will be returning to the Concorde 2 this Thursday night. The current line-up may change between now and then (there have been an estimated 66 members of The Fall in their 35 year history) but regardless of who’s playing behind Mr. [ READ MORE ]

Album Review: Sticks + Stones by Cher Lloyd

After the irritable ‘Swagger Jagger’, Cher Lloyd delivers a debut album bursting with personality. Every track on Cher Lloyd’s debut album could easily have come from a different artist. From the dancehall bounce of opening track ‘Grow Up’ to the balladry of ‘Beautiful People’; the album is an erratic and jumpy affair saved by its [ READ MORE ]

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