Interview: Ash

Tim Wheeler’s merry trio of pop rock bandits, known around the globe as Ash, have a spooky task to fulfil tonight. At the student venue The Refectory in Leeds, Ash will have to pump out a set comprised of their greatest hits, as well as songs off their latest LP Twilight of the Innocents to a room choc full of pissed up witches, zombies, and ghouls. Read more

You Say Party! We Say Die!: Lose All The Time

With its glorious opening and riotous anthems, 2005’s “Hit The Floor!” was one of my favourite albums of that year. So, two years on, I was intrigued to see how You Say Party! We Say Die! were going to follow it up. Read more

You Say Party! We Say Die!/Los Campesinos! @ Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh

An enticing live prospect, You Say Party! We Say Die! are a band that manage to generate a sense of occasion from the humblest of surroundings, an attitude exemplified tonight as frontwoman Becky Ninkovic takes to the stage in an electric blue cape. She immediately begins dancing balletically around the stage, and doesn’t let up for the entire set. Read more

Public Relations Exercise - Catalyst

Depicted on the sleeve of ‘Catalyst’ is a Bunsen burner - the irresistible purveyor of boredom relief during secondary school science lessons. Read more

The KBC - Walking Disaster/La Musique

If this was released a few months earlier it could have been the feel good hit of the summer that never happened. This Preston trio have been on the AudioScribbler radar for quite a while now, a year or so ago they were tipped for big things, but for some reason split with their label High Voltage before the release of what would have been their debut album. Read more

Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames/The Ghost Frequency/Hadouken! @ The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh

The five members of Leeds-based Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames are always a lively bunch and fun to watch live, but it isn�t until the latter part of their set that they fully seem to get into their stride. Read more

Five! Fast!! Hits!!! - Mr Marone/Do This Thing

Even though the exclamation-donning Five! Fast!! Hits!!! hail from Munich Germany, there’s something quintessentially British about the band’s ramshackle guitar sound. Read more

Her Name Is Calla - A Moment Of Clarity

The follow-up to the immense ‘Condor And River’, this is the second single by Her Name Is Calla, released, like it’s predecessor, on Gizeh Records. And given the recent postal strike, the phrase ‘eagerly awaited’ has never seemed so apt. Read more

Idle Jack and The Big Sleep - Stone Tape Theory, Volume II

For a band working on a practically non-existent budget, Idle Jack’s self-released Stone Tape Theory Volume II (the follow-up to their previous, also self-released mini-album Volume I) is a surprisingly tightly produced affair. Read more

Pull Tiger Tail + Athlete - Hurricanes

Two bands both calling their new track the same thing! Could it be the evidence of the supernatural and the psychic that we’ve all been waiting for? Or could it be that there have been a lot of hurricanes recently, and both bands thought ‘Fuck it, that’ll do’. But whilst Pull Tiger Tail’s hurricanes are an enviably effective metaphor, Athlete’s is a hurricane. Read more

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