The Airborne Toxic Event
By Laura Barbour • Feb 18th, 2009 • Category: gigsFor such a sensational band, The Airborne Toxic Event are potentially the most unpretentious bunch of people you could hope to come across.
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We Were Promised Jetpacks / Jesus H. Foxx / The Little Kicks
By Laura Barbour • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: draftFirstly, in an entirely irrelevant observation; allow me to state that there is an unsettling proportion of extraordinarily tall people in attendance tonight.
Zoey Van Goey / The Starlets / John B McKenna
By Laura Barbour • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: gigs, itm? live“Eh, I’m quite drunk”. So declares John B McKenna, offering a somewhat unnecessary disclaimer to his appreciative audience. If McKenna was to be judged solely on his appearance and verbose lyricism, the verdict would surely be something along the lines of ‘tortured artist type’. But his frequent and charming between-song banter (including a plug of [...]
The Whip
By Laura Barbour • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category: short playersMancunian four-piece The Whip were described by Lily Allen as “more gratitude than attitude” after a recent appearance on her BBC Three show.
Long Blondes
By Laura Barbour • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category: short playersThe Long Blondes’ Kate Jackson would appear to have swapped her tweed pencil skirts and berets for neon leggings and a glittery boob tube if new single ‘Century’ is anything to go by. It’s a stabbing, even menacing song in places, with some early-90s esque synthesisers providing the backdrop. There is some respite [...]
