Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets @ Brisbane Convention Centre, 19.09.2023

Photo: Will Ireland After the band play ‘The Nile Song’, bassist Guy Pratt says that he always wanted to play the song and recounts preparing to go out in tour with David Gilmour in 2006. “David asked for suggestions for songs to play on the tour. I suggested ‘The Nile Song’. David suggested that I […]
The return of Everett True | 49. Violet Swells

A little diversion away from the main frame. I hope you don’t mind. A passing fancy, an object so slight and ephemeral that if you stand at the wrong angle you might not see it at all for fear of the sunlight glancing off its sides. Yes, music has sides. On one level, it’s deeply in […]
Guided By Voices – Let’s Go Eat The Factory (Fire)
Robert Pollard’s language is a universe that is both abstract and familiar, a poetry informed by gray skies and basements, used cars and starch.
The Horrors – Skying (XL)

‘Endless Blue’ is Chapterhouse bad. Let’s not say any more about it.
Line-ups that make (or break) the band
Sometimes every member makes (or breaks) the band.
The Idiot Bastard Band @ The Wilmington Arms, London 14.03.11
“Let there be drums.” “Fuck off.”
Spotlight – 14: Gablé
Again, a case of accidental discovery via iTunes. I’m increasingly of the opinion this is a fine and noble way to discover music, if you can manage it. I’ve spent several fruitless afternoons in Rocking Horse Records, trying to think of an album to buy – discounted Death, cos I’d been promised that: discounted Monks, cos […]