It’s the simple ideas that are the best and the idea behind The Pipettes couldn’t be more simple - put together a band that sounds like the Phil Spector-produced girl groups of the 50s and early 60s, like The Ronettes and The Shangri-Las. Or to put it even more simply, to “turn back the clock […]

The Line-up Jim Knights (vocals, guitars, synths, programming), Scarlet (bass, synths, Programming).
The History The band formed in 2000 by ex-members of Elementary 4 Jim Knights and Lee Kinrade with bassist Scarlet. They toured the UK extensively picking up high profile support slots with bands like The Damned, The Faint, Lolita Storm and Rachel Stamp and […]

The Line-up Mathias Eick (trumpet, upright bass, keyboards & vibraphone), Harald Frøland (guitars & effects), Even Ormestad (bass & keyboards), Andreas Mjøs (vibraphone, guitars, drums & electronics), Line Horntveth (tuba & percussion), Martin Horntveth (drums & drum-machines), Lars Horntveth (tenor sax, bass-clarinet, guitars & keyboards), Andreas Schei (keyboards), Ketil Einarsen (flutes, wind controller, percussion & […]

Have you ever listened to a song or bit of music or even heard a couple of lines blasting out of a speaker in a club and thought to yourself: Wow! That really sums me up? Well of course you have. You’re reading this, which means you read Indigo Flow, which means you are either […]

I’ve always felt that Napster is a red herring. In my humble opinion (he said, for the benefit of any lawyers listening), it’s just a bootlegging tool. In theory, yes, you think you might like a band and borrow someone’s CD electronically to give them a listen. Live in close proximity with a lot of […]

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 […]

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 […]