NME New Music Tour 2007 @ Concorde 2, Brighton

NME-organised gigs are very unique and instantly recognisable creatures. Read more

The Cribs/ The Thermals @ The Astoria, London

The Thermals, a punk 3 piece hailing from Portland, are underground favourites in the States, but they are in no enviable position tonight. Most in the crowd have never heard of them, and seem to view them as just another stopgap before the Main Event. 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

Das Wanderlust - Sunday School

Those marmite pair of wrong poppers are back with three more offerings sure to split opinions quicker than Moses with a bowl of washing up water. But love them or hate them (and quite frankly, you really should love them because their insanely brilliant!) you can’t deny they make music like pretty much no one else and that’s always a good thing! Read more

The Holloways @ Electric Ballroom, London

There is always something special about a proper hometown gig, one taking place minutes from where the band lives. On Monday night, the crowd at the Electric Ballroom waits impatiently for a rollicking quartet known as The Holloways to take the stage. Read more

Juliette Lewis and the Licks - Four On The Floor

So only a matter of months after the release of this somewhat disappointing second album, apparently there must be legions of fans who not only want the album but now want a DVD with it so they can watch Miss Lewis and her licks getting up to all their rock star frivolities. Plus, of course, they can milk even more out of the fact that Dave Grohl played drums on it! 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

Biffy Clyro - Leeds Metropolitan University

As YCNI:M finish their impressive set Biffy Clyro fans are down the front, rabidly enthusiastic, creating a potent atmosphere of expectation. With new album imminent, major label deal down and a creeping curiosity starting to come from those outside Biffy’s ‘cult’ fan base, 57 explodes into the faces of the uninitiated. Read more

Slow Club - Because We’re Dead

Some delightfully eccentric Pavement-esque alt folk from a boy / girl duo from up Nottingham way. Slow Club’s debut single could be a Deep South barn dance anthem, just as easily as an indie club classic. Lyrically bizarre and heart-warmingly humorous, ‘there’s people in the floorboards send a mouse’. Tongue in cheekily dark, declaring, ‘it’s too late because we’re dead’ with big grins on their faces, strumming jolly chords. Read more

Das Wanderlust @ Old Blue Last, London

An impromptu set of old songs (some of witch they hadn’t played for 18 months) with no sound check and a drummer who had only practiced with them once (and bloody great he was to!). Surreal and a bit mental for them, totally brilliant for us. Read more

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