I love funky punky music you can dance to, and that's the type of music that inspires my writing. Currently an admin for the Fontaines D.C. Facebook fangroup "What's Really Going On?" which now has almost 4000 members. Living in Edinburgh, UK I am also a member of Pentland Triathletes and have completed two Half Ironmans. Good to meet you!
What we’re really looking forward to in 2021 are new records from some of the best bands around right now. Here, Julia Mason talks to the punk four-piece, The Clockworks whose new music you need to listen out for in 2021. Being an independent musician was hard even before COVID-19 brought the world to a […] More
Shame‘s 2018 debut album Songs of Praise saw them proclaimed as one of the leaders of an ever-growing group of post-punk bands. It has felt like a long time coming, but shame’s second album Drunk Tank Pink is set for release 15 January 2021. This is still shame, but with their hearts on their sleeve. […] More
Galway based punk five-piece Turnstiles release their debut EP, The Turnstiles EP on 8 Jan 2021 on Blowtorch Records, and I tell you this is the way to start 2021. With a blistering attack and full-on “Come on, let’s have you” attitude, the four tracks are full of fire. They speak of the impact of […] More
Bands currently find themselves with a mountain of possibilities if they want to express the current state of affairs through their music. The list of subjects in our turbulent world right now seems endless, from COVID-19 to the behaviour of politicians, to social justice, the environment and attitudes on climate change to name just a […] More
The Skinner Brothers release their new single “Low” on Blaggers Records, and it’s a stomper. For fans of Cast, The View, Kasabian and The Snuts, The Skinner Brothers play music to dance to—simples. Throwing into the melting pot indie, punk, rock; they like to mix it up. This is the second single of 2020 with […] More
Is that frogs croaking and insects buzzing at the start of Dead Horses new single “Feral Woman”? The atmosphere is one of the Delta, with almost a rockabilly rhythm and a grungy bluesy backdrop. A wild swaggering song which played live would absolutely get the crowd moving. The dirty garage guitars and beat of the […] More
The Psychedelic Furs are a British new wave band founded in London in February 1977. Led by singer Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs are one of the many acts spawned from the British post-punk scene. The band are still performing and have released their eighth studio album Made of Rain on 31 July 2020. […] More
So here is a perfect example of an unexpected outcome of lockdown. Lynks played this electro banger version of Courtney Barnetts “Pedestrian at Best” at an online stream, and he got such a positive reaction he decided to put it out as a single. Lynks said that “Courtney’s original version of “Pedestrian at Best” was […] More
The Clockworks had a surprise single release on Friday 6 November “Enough Is Never Enough”. The track had its first airplay on BBC Radio1 Future Sounds show with Annie Mac, which says it all about how far the band has come. The four-piece formed in Galway, Ireland and signed to Alan McGee’s Creation23 label almost […] More
In one glorious week back in April 2019, I went to a couple of gigs that literally blew my mind. Fontaines D.C. at King Tuts in Glasgow two days after their debut, Dogrel, was released, and the Press Club gig at Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh. I had no plans for the Friday of that […] More
On Video are a four-piece indie garage rock band from East London. Their music is fast and furious with an explosion of energy. I had been delighted that they had signed up to play at the Stag and Dagger festival in Glasgow back in May. I even told the band I would round up my […] More
In April 2015, I saw Skinny Lister live at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh. It was a wild, rip-roaring, swash-buckling gig with a flagon of alcoholic beverage passed around the crowd. That tour was to promote Skinny Lister’s second album Down On Deptford Broadway, and I am delighted to say that its 5th Anniversary is […] More
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