Next summer I am shooting a documentary film project that focuses on exploring the local Southampton music scene through the lens of fashion and visual identity. Although the research is countrywide looking at behaviour so please don’t let the word ‘Southampton’ put you off filling it in. As part of this research, I am hoping…
Yes, 35 years ago today, the alternative rock band R.E.M. that you would have to be literally living under a rock to not know released their seventh studio album, the defining masterpiece, “Out of Time”. Released on March 12, 1991, the ‘at the time somewhat cult’ band overnight went from being that band that had…
If you do not know these names and you see them advertised at a local show or you just come across them streaming you should stop and take a look, there some great music to be found. Ekoh is a rapper from Las Vegas, currently touring the UK with Ryan Oakes, a rapper from Los…
Let’s start off with the elephant in every gig goer’s room, “Dynamic ticket pricing is a strategy where ticket prices change in real-time based on demand, supply, time until the event, and other factors. Commonly used in air travel and by companies like Ticketmaster, it aims to maximize revenue by increasing prices for high-demand events…
The Music Venue Trust and The National Lottery have announced ‘Everywhere At Once’, billed as The UK’s Biggest Festival on what would normally have been Glastonbury Festival Weekend which would see 210,000 revellers, workers, artists and performers enjoy a week of music. Imagine if that many people got involved with grass roots venues across the…
To give the title to this post some context, I have been a fand of the Foo Fighters since the beginning, post-Nirvana with the release of the self titled Foo Fighters in 1995. The first 8 albums are still on a sporadic regular rotation of mine, at least a slection of tracks from each of…
I don’t know how I missed this yesterday on the main UK media channels but my phone seems to have caught up with the world and my feeds informed me that LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER is UK’s Eurovision entry for 2006. I will be watching this year, previous years, for as long as I can…
Released on this day 40 years ago, 17 February 1986, The Colour of Spring is the third studio album by English band Talk Talk, written by Mark Hollis and producer Tim Friese-Greene. The Talk Talk albums that came before it had much more of a synthesized pop sound, synthesizers are rarely featured on the album, being replaced by guitar, piano, and organ….
I saw Cast again last night at an outstore through Vinilo Record Store promoting their new album ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ which reached #8 in the album charts this week. For a band that formed in 1992, 34 years ago that’s a serious accomplishment. Especially in this fickle music streaming based society we live in. That’s…
Save the Date -Saturday 18th April If you didnt already Record Store Day is the anticipated day for some when over 300 independent record shops across the UK and Ireland come together to celebrate music in the one way they know how. Click here to download the RSD2006 PDF – Or just look at the…
