Okay, I’ll admit it. I came to the Manic’s quite late in their career. They had already released three albums and lost one guitarist by the time they had released A Design For Life and I had found them. But I digress. Generation Terrorists was the […]

I was discussing this page with an old friend recently who told me that I didn’t have to write about bands that were cool but that I should write about bands that I thought were great. It was then that this band’s name cropped up and […]

Have you ever been stalked by a song? Been quietly sitting at home, watching a terrible TV channel and suddenly a little bit of gold crops up, then before you know it, the damn thing is following you around everywhere. It’s on the radio when you […]

When I was six I was bought a tape for one of my Christmas presents. After Christmas Dinner I dutifully took it out of its case and put it in the tiny radio-cassette player that my parents kept for listening to classical music. Now at this point […]

Aberfeldy’s folk tinged pop comes with a playful side to match its comfortable jauntiness and softly crafted songs. Strings are plucked, strummed and bowed sweetly behind the vocal led songs on Young Forever. The previous singles Love Is An Arrow, Vegetarian Restaurant and Heliopolis By Night are demonstrative of the range of subject matter covered; […]

The Line-up Jamie Lenman (guitar/vocals), Jon Pearce (bass) & Guy Davis (drums)
The History Originally formed under the moniker Angel By Jamie and Jon back in 1998 before changing to Reuben in March 2000. In September of that year they recorded they debut release, the Pilot EP, which was released in January 2001. The band then […]

Mixing up the whole metal spectrum, from Incubus to Slayer to Metallica to Faith No More, Aconite Thrill Have created an excellent debut album.
The rhythm section is about as solid as they come, driving everything forward underneath the stabbing and often highly technical guitar riffs. Will Jeferee’s vocals come in over the top with great […]

The Sound “We wanted to create music that was simple and pure, but still rocks the fuck out,” is how it was simply put in an interview with CrashinIn.com. The band’s biography claims that “with stripped down drum loops, fuzzed out melodic bass lines, and trade […]

The Line-up Gareth Owen (vocals/guitar), Stuart Turner (guitar), Lee Dodson (bass), Euan Rodger (drums).
The History The Copperpot Journals released their debut EP on Blind Bear Records in 2000, which went largely unnoticed. In the winter of 2001 the band recorded their second effort - the seven […]

The Line-up The core of The Special Goodness is vocalist and guitarist Pat Wilson (also of Weezer) and after several incarnations of the band he was joined by Atom Willard (ex-Rocket From The Crypt) on drums in 2000 and, despite a valiant search for a full […]