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Be A Familiar

By Tony Kiernan • Sep 29th, 2010 • Category: jrbig, long players

Septet Be A Familiar finally deliver their debut album. And, all we can say is that To The Lighthouse has definitely been worth the wait. Definitely the most air-punchingly exhilarating albums for quite some time. The whole thing is driven with an energy and rush from start to finish. Make no mistake, this is probably [...]



The Like

By Tony Kiernan • Sep 8th, 2010 • Category: gigs

Welcome to extreme rock makeovers! For the last few years The Like have been trading in a quietLOUD grunge-rock thing with some Blondie-like sass thrown in for good measure.



Hallogallo 2010

By Tony Kiernan • Aug 21st, 2010 • Category: gigs

Or to give it its proper name “Michael Rother and friends perform the top pop hits of Neu!”. Or something like that. There are lots of folk that care about these things would have been very unhappy had Rother been allowed to bill these gigs Neu! I can’t help thinking that if the rest of [...]



Wickerman Festival Festival 2010 Day 2

By Tony Kiernan • Jul 27th, 2010 • Category: gigs, jrgigs

So, with the new no-go Scooter Tent, it’s just as well the organisers decided to put Wickerman faves More From Jim (Summerisle Stage) up on the big stage. Where, frankly, they’ve always belonged.



Wickerman Festival 2010 Day 1

By Tony Kiernan • Jul 26th, 2010 • Category: gigs, jrgigs

Last year’s Wickerman Festival had a preponderance of young bands deeply in the thrall of Win Butler and chums. If the trend round the clubs and smaller venues if anything to go by, this year it’ll be all jaggy riffs and ATD-i’s back catalogue.