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Rockness 2011

By Katy Whitelaw • Jun 30th, 2011 • Category: gigs, jrgigs

Organisers promised it would be the ‘Year of the Ness’, and after winning Line Up Of The Year at the UK Festival Awards and Best Small Festival at the NME Awards, they had a lot to live up to.



Christian Kjellvander

By Katy Whitelaw • Mar 30th, 2011 • Category: short players

The blues, country, deep weathered sounding voice of Swedish singer songwriter Kjellvander growls along like Chris Rea in ‘Bad Hurtin’.



The Sounds

By Katy Whitelaw • Mar 30th, 2011 • Category: long players

I was really surprised when researching this band to see a photo of Dave Grohl wearing a The Sounds t-shirt. Why so surprised I hear you ask? Only because Something To Die For sounds like it has been created by a German power pop-rock band in the 1980s for the Eurovsion song contest.



Sargasso Sea

By Katy Whitelaw • Mar 30th, 2011 • Category: short players

Sargasso Sea is primarily the musical vehicle of singer, lyricist and songwriter Elisabeth Oswell, who together with Alan Mills and James Stephenson co-wrote and produced the haunting and enchanting single ‘Madonna’.



Beady Eye

By Katy Whitelaw • Mar 30th, 2011 • Category: long players

The media circus that surrounded the sibling rivalry of the Gallagher brothers was fuelled further by the announcement of Noel in 2009 that he was quitting Oasis. Team Noel or team Liam?