Oswald are a difficult band to make up your mind about. ‘These Days’ is incomprehensibly catchy from the very first listen, with a simple drum-beat and riff driving through to the rousing chorus that you may catch yourself humming if your aren’t careful.
Therein lies the problem, because it really isn’t a substantial record in any [...]

I remember tapes too. They were rubbish.
The band from Winchester aren’t a great deal better, and their vision is equally as obselete. They label themselves a mash up of Duran Duran, Roxy Music and the Smiths, and this evokes grandiose self-importance that is woefully unsubstantiated from the first note of ‘All I know’.
It’s no more [...]

Back in the day, singing in a Scottish slang was as sought after as Swine flu, and about as cool as a pair of the Proclaimer’s black specs.
Now though it is quite literally the talk of the toon, and Twin Atlantic prominently purvey their regional dialect on ‘Lightspeed’, their first release since signing to [...]

Following hot on the heels of Euan Davidson’s album review, comes ‘Roll Up Your Sleeves’, the second single from We Were Promised Jetpacks debut album ‘These Four Walls’

T in the park has metamorphosed from indie flick to summer blockbuster in the past decade, and the merits of this shift remain questionable to all concerned, with the exception of those writing the cheques. In previous years, Geoff Ellis et al may have gotten away with it by securing some unexpected headliners that justify [...]