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
We recently signed a new band, the wonderful Port Erin, to the label. And as is my wont, I rewrote the bands biography, partly as I like to put something fresh on their profile page on the label website, and partly for PR mail-out purposes. They are a brilliant melodic, chilled, slightly haunting indie band, … 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
Swindon’s British Harlem appear to be one of those bands that is very good at keeping an outrageously low profile before exploding to life with something a bit special. Mainly formed from the embers of Young Blood, a highly regarded band who just seemed to drift away last year without explanation before now doing something … Continue reading
I reproduce here a written up version of the press release for the show I am promoting with recently signed headliners Young Kato. Whilst they are a great band, young, on a label and with big tour bookers behind them they have yet to make that leap into the nations concious through appearances and airplay … Continue reading
First published on greenmanmusic.biz In my humble opinion, one of the greatest attributes to “indie” music is its sheer variety and scope. Very much a term of convenience its original coining to describe music put out by small independent labels naturally encompassed a vast range of styles. It gradually came to refer to any alternative … Continue reading
Back into the Green Man archives again for this review, published back in September (original post here). I was reminded of this one when a touring musician I was putting on recently stopped over in Swindon, and to occupy himself made a few museum visits, including one to a computing museum I didn’t even know … Continue reading
This review originally appeared in the July 2012 issue of The Ocelot Magazine I am going to put this right out there: Witney’s Black Hats are probably the best band in the area at the moment. Evidence for my fervour can be heard in this new mini-album, 6 tracks of audio perfection, coming in at a lean … Continue reading
Previously published on http://www.theocelot.co.uk as part of my occasional series. Oxford’s Kill Murray (not to be confused with aging Hollywood ghostbusting legends) are a very difficult band to find anything out about. They are also something of a challenge to describe or pigeon-hole, being something of a pot pourri of audio niceness. Everything, including the musical kitchen … Continue reading
The Unwise Monkey 