No idea whether I’m coming or going this week, so ramblings about short things may well be in order. And what better short thing to ramble on about than this charming debut from the aptly named Local Strangers – a Mid-Western duo now at home in Seattle, and fitting in rather nicely with the area’s [...]
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*cracks fingers* Right. Due to a combination of a bunch of vouchers and a rush of high-quality releases of late, I have A Backlog. And with more stuff arriving in the mail today and a lipsmacking array of goodies due over the next fortnight, I’d better get a shift on. Although I promise I won’t [...]
Warning! The following entry concerns a band so uniquely English in its outlook, pop-culture referencing and love of a good pun that it will prove to be almost impenetrable to anyone from beyond these shores. It also helps if you watched a lot of TV in the mid-1980s to ‘get’ all the mentions of the [...]
Ah, Manchester’s International 2. Situated in a lovely part of the city, where Pearl Jam once had all their equipment stolen and I stopped off for a quick drink with a friend in a local pub (on the way to seeing Motorhead, for those interested in that level of detail) that resembled a Cold War [...]
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