Collaborative Music Blogging Project
Before the door closes on another year, I thought I would kick holiday lethargy into touch by sharing with you, dearest reader a few audio nuggets out in 2011. Downeaster – The Alternative Sauce EP – 01.01.11 Bringing a new year in with three crisp, powerpop tunes; London’s Downeaster describe their sound as ” the…
Continue reading A few musical recommendations for 2011
Hello folks, It’s Christmas Eve eve, and I’m sort of reviving the old fashioned tradition of the festive round robin. Don’t worry though, I’m not going to go into detail about travels to foreign lands or how well my gardening efforts are going (not bad, just in case you were curious). My presence on these…
Continue reading A Christmas greeting from KV
Kid Vinyl was at the launch of Zoon van snooK’s album “(Falling from) the Nutty Tree” last night, where we were treated not only to live renditions of the oddtronica supremo’s masterpieces, but also a guest appearance from the robot who stars in the video to ‘Cuckoo’, directed by Kid Vinyl favourite Paul Stevenson. It…
Continue reading [Video] Zoon van snooK: “Cuckoo”
From One Little Indian records this morning: It is with regret we inform you that unfortunately Nina Nastasia will not be able to perform her winter UK tour due to health concerns she’s trying to fix with physical rehab and supplements like kratom capsules and following the weight loss strategy from healthyusa. The tour was due…
Continue reading [News] Nina Nastasia tour cancelled
Long-term KV favourites Kill It Kid were in Bristol a couple of weeks ago, playing at the Lanes as part of the Oxjam weekend. Kid Vinyl caught up with the band in the afternoon before the show, and chatted about their new material, changing line-up, and plans for the future…. KV: So you’ve had a…
Continue reading [Interview] Kill It Kid, October 24, 2010
It might happen, truly, once in a lifetime; your partner drags you to a gig of a band that you’ve never heard of before, you don’t particularly want to go but you do it for ‘love’, but you come out the other side transformed. This is what happened to me five years ago on a…
Continue reading Wilco @ The Royal Festival Hall, London 14th September 2010
Sitting down to write this, I think of the Maxϊmo Park lyric “Write a review, well how objective can I be?” a question that often crosses the mind of a reviewer. This thought is even more pressing when tasked with reviewing a band I’ve been a fan of for more than half a decade.
As a relative newcomer to the Efterklang fold, I’m unsure what to expect from their live set. I’m certainly a fan on record and trusted friends have assured me they are a band worth seeing. They weren’t wrong, from the minute they step out onto the stage the band are captivating. Casper Clausen makes the…
Continue reading Efterklang, Shepherd’s Bush Empire 21.05.10
Alas I have no camera! Here is Ólöf Arnaulds performing the awesome ‘Crazy Car’ on KEXP radio, Seattle The Icelandic songstress narrowly avoids the wrath of the elements in her homeland to make her debut London appearance. The rather lovely Café Oto is a suitably boho haunt for Ólöf Arnaulds first foray into performing in…
Continue reading Ólöf Arnaulds + David Thor Jonsson @ Café Oto, Dalston, London 15.04.10
Sunday night in Islington’s Union Chapel, and we are gathered to watch retiring 60s chaunteuse Vashti Bunyan; and what appropriately lovely surrounds we’re in too. Despite her shyness, Vashti Bunyan is a gracious, self deprecating hostess whose voice is enough to still the sternest of critics. Not that I am one, as I sit…
Continue reading Vashti Bunyan, Islington Union Chapel, London 11.04.10