This is a seriously strange record, defiantly lo-fi – reverberating with hisses and crackles – yet, at times has a rich, delightful sound – utilising piano, keyboards, banjo and ukulele.
Sophie’s Pigeons have a pretty intense sound. ‘It’s Gonna Bite’ is a strident, driven nugget, its rambunctious sound topped off with strong vocals and a bruising rhythmic stomp.
Press releases tend to vanish once placed into my tender care. It’s not that I don’t bother to read them, or even, at times appreciate them, it’s just that they tend to disappear without leaving a trace or bidding as much as a fond farewell.
Tonight almost ended in, or at least began with, a disaster when I got my O2 venues mixed up. Stepping out of the warmth of Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s I was about to hail a cab to head to the O2 Academy at Eglinton Toll when I realised the actual venue was only a few hundred [...]
It’s the week before Christmas and what better a way to spend it than having your ears and brains blasted and cleansed of the anodyne and ever present sounds of Christmases past, present and probably future by some modern-day punk-rock in a dingy small pub.
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