“A big mix of everything”: Hannah Meets Natalie Joan
Recently my friend (and some time Collapse Board contributer), Toby Goodwin sadly passed away. He had become my gig buddy and we had bought tickets for several gigs coming up over autumn winter 2016. The tickets started arriving on his old doormat and his housemate kindly passed on the tickets we had booked together to […]
LIINES – Disappear / Be Here (Reckless Yes)
I first discovered LIINES through twitter. I believe they messaged me following the ILL interview I did for Collapse Board. I was impressed from the start. The thumping relentless tom tom heavy drums on LIINES’ ‘Be Here’- the second track on a Double A side 7 inch vinyl released, on brand new cult label in […]
Live! Skating Polly @ Moon Club Cardiff, Wed 15th June 2016
Words and photos by Toby Goodwin. Reprinted with permission from Musicgigsnthings. Skating Polly’s first performance was at a family Halloween party in 2009. Well they were only 9 and 14 at the time. Now in 2016, after supporting Babes In Toyland last year and with the recent release of their fourth album “The Big Fit”, […]
“Never kiss a Tory”: An interview with Peaness
I’ve just started a zine called Mother’s Pride. It’s a riot grrrl feminist underground punk zine whose manifesto includes inspiring and supporting women to pick up guitars and sing and scream. The first interview for the zine is with local band Peaness. I get to the pancake shop early with a tripod to set up […]
SOTD #719 – Skating Polly
When I heard ‘Perfume For Now’, I took to Twitter with the words “Song of the year in February? Maybe.” Angered girlish squeals and powerful raging screamed words spat out in the direction of the lyrics’ target. “Frying slowly in butter and fate / Take it take it take it take it- it’s a hunt.” […]
The Worst in Music of 2015
The name “Viet Cong” So this year, we watched as a band named after an off-hand racist comment rose on the charts. They’ll no doubt crop up on bunches of more positive lists this month, even after colleges like Oberlin barred them from playing. Sang Nguyen, a writer at Impose and also a second-generation Vietnamese-American, […]
Hannah Golightly meets ILL, pt. 2: Ari Up, homophobia at home, and definitely no mandolins
Photo by Greta Buitkute. From left to right: Whitney, Hannah, Harri, Fiona. Missed part 1? Backtrack here. Transcribed by Lee Adcock. The original plan was to interview ILL for ten minutes. But where’s the fun in that when there are four like-minded people gathering together to discuss the things that matter to them musically one […]
Hannah Golightly meets ILL, Pt. 1: Naughty nurses and excessive breasts
Photo by Hannah Golightly. Transcribed by Hannah Golightly and Lee Adcock I’ve been ill in bed off and on for weeks and I had to be given a lift to the train station which is a ten minute walk from my house, but illness was not going to stop me from interviewing Manchester band of […]
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (Bella Union)
Some say that the job of good music is to elevate living into something more than survival. Some wish they had lived through the sixties… I wish to be living through John Grant’s career. I’d have seen him play Liverpool if only I’d been brave enough to go alone and I wish I had been. […]
Hannah Golightly’s First Headliner at the Trew Era Café – 17 September, 2015
As told by Helen McCookerybook Photo of Hannah Golightly by Hayley Taylor Graphic by Hannah Golightly I love gigs like this. The cafe was packed and the gig had already started when I got there at about 6.30. There was a duo singing, two guys, one on bass and one on guitar, singing mellow early […]
