My Ocelot Magazine column this month was a review of a show back in regular haunt The Victoria in Swindon. Apologies, but it is back into Wiltshire I dive this month, although only because a show cropped up that was too good to miss. Any chance to see Buswell play has to be grabbed, for … Continue reading
One of the traps that teenage singer songwriters tend to fall into is, in their eagerness to get out there, to release ropey recordings and ill-considered YouTube videos. I have lost track of the times I have listened to an angst ridden teenage girl mangle a guitar as they wail through a barely audible home … Continue reading
Music can be a powerful trigger, generating synaptic responses in the listener that can cause extremes of emotion, opinion, feeling and memory. Some music does this with a real battering ram approach, grabbing the lapels of your brain and shaking a response from it, but sometimes a more subtle tactic can be by far the … Continue reading
First published by greenmanmusic.biz They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I often feel that an equally pertinent motto could be beauty is in the ear of the listener (or words to that effect, I am not much of a philosopher). This occurred to me whilst listening to The Servants, the … Continue reading
I thought I would trot out this review from earlier in the year, as originally published on greenmanmusic.biz . Reading back, this is one of those reviews that I am rather chuffed with, and also still agree with. Listening to Maz’s album over a longer period of time has not dulled my enjoyment of it. In … Continue reading
The Unwise Monkey 