EP: Dead!
Every so often a band comes along hits you clean between the eyes and completely blows you off your feet. Hampshire 5 piece band Dead! did exactly that to me the first time I...
Category: Reviews
CD: “Here I stand Alone” by Skin For A Canvas
The brainchild of Ian Mortimer, Skin For A Canvas – one-man acoustic ambient project – tries to deliver something to the ears of its listeners. What it tries to deliver though, I’m not too...
Steel Panther/Falling Red
Southampton Guildhall In December 2011 Steel Panther opened up on the huge UK arena tour featuring metal heavy weights Def Leppard and Motley Crue each night the venues were unusually full early on as...
Adam Ant The Good The Bad And The Lovely Posse
O2, Bournemouth It’s Sunday night in the O2 Bournemouth, and the Dandy Highwayman is back in town. I say back, it’s their 3rd visit in a year! They’ll be residents soon!!
EP: “Tender/Violet” by Race Car Hearts
“Tender/Violet” is the title of the wonderful 5-track EP by Portsmouth’s Race Car Hearts, which is the creative guise for English singer/songwriter Chris Perrin.
EP: “Griever” by Griever
Hard hitting metal bands seem to be spawning more frequently at late on the south coast, as Griever have recently emerged as one of the latest bands this year to skate on the thin...
CD: “Beyond the Realms of Euphoria” by Galahad
As the keyboards of Salvation II – Judgement Day kick in, I get flashbacks of 80’s synth pop and I don’t know if it’s just me but Stuart Nicholson vocals sound like the Pet...
EP: “Immension” by Immension
Old school metal. New school vocals. Noodling. Riffage. Pounding drums. Storming stuff.
CD: “Preachers” by My Jerusalem
All the way over in Austin Texas comes the second album by “My Jerusalem”, pushing what they describe as “Post-Modern Southern Gothic Soul” in the form of “Preachers”.
