Sunflies - Coping Strategies

Today saw the release of Hertfordshire’s four piece ‘Alt.Rock’ act Sunflies’ debut EP “Coping Strategies.” This three track effort’s first offering opens with duel feedbacking guitars, which unfortunately remain the highlight for all that is to come. Read more

Les Valentine: Nervous

What’s all this? Porno sax? MOR piano? Banal, repetitive lyrics? Why it seems that The Feeling’s influence truly is all conquering as Brightonians Les Valentine concoct up a decidedly rancid brew that sounds like it should be tacked onto the end of one of those crap early 90’s family movies that end up being shown on ITV2 in the afternoon.. Read more

What Would Jesus Drive?: We Made This

In hindsight I probably could have made my mind up about What Would Jesus Drive? before reviewing this EP just by going onto their Myspace. In a real ‘fuck the world’ punk way they proudly claim ‘I don’t give a fuck about your band’ and proudly announce on one of their blogs that they have the IQ of a ten year old. Read more

Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me

Alex Turner, cheeky chappy of Arctic Monkeys fame, has given us so many things in the last few years; one of the greatest albums of 2006, probably the greatest song of 2007 so far…oh yes, and a hundred and a million talentless indie boy bands given a record contracts just because they sound ‘reet northern like’. Bastard. Read more

The Twang - Either Way

So it’s finally being released, even though we’ve all heard it a billion and one times already and could sing it backwards in our sleep! Now you have the option to buy the rowdy brummie hooligans new single (still at least there’s b-sides!) Read more

The Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me

Alex Turner, cheeky chappy of Arctic Monkeys fame, has given us so many things in the last few years; one of the greatest albums of 2006, probably the greatest song of 2007 so far…oh yes, and a hundred and a million talentless indie boy bands given a record contracts just because they sound ‘reet northern like’. Bastard. Read more

The Twang - Wide Awake

First came Kasabian, and now we have Birmingham’s The Twang; the most recent case of a band regurgitating outdated northern anecdotes like ‘avin it!’ in order to make themselves more interesting (seen as the tunes struggle to do it on their own). Unfortunately for them, this isn’t lazy journalism. The Twangs official website states, ‘”Singer Phil Etheridge has got the attitude of Liam Gallagher and the charm of Tom Meighan.’ None of it particularly screams originality. Read more