Added on November 15, 2011
Tamsin
Brighton , Cotillion , Emily Dickinson , folk music , Folly , Mary Hampton , PJ Harvey , Tamsin Chapman , Teaspoon
So you’re thinking Tinkerbell and glitterwings, floaty velvet scarves and dream catchers. Please don’t.
Added on October 22, 2011
Lucy
Audio , Brighton , Lucy Cage , Slow Club
Fuck the acoustic guitars and bring on the noise!
Added on July 26, 2011
Tamsin
Action Painting , best of 2011 , blogging , Brighton , classical choral music , criticism , Gropetown , Jonathan Richman , Sigur Ros , Socialist Leisure Party , Suuns , Tamsin Chapman , The Fembassy , The Lovely Eggs
Choral music. Screaming. The other theme for me so far this year, has been female rap.
Added on July 19, 2011
Lucy
Braids , Brighton , Dirty Projectors , Kristin Hersh , live review , Lucy Cage , Merrill Garbus , Micachu and the Shapes , Music criticism , The Haunt , Thousands , tUnE-yArDs , Vampire Weekend
Perhaps Merrill Garbus is the anti-Zooey Deschanel? I fucking hope so.
Added on June 4, 2011
Everett True
Belfast , Brighton , femme-pop , Howl , Irma Thomas , Jon Slade , Totally Radio
Discovered this while searching online for music by The X-Osettes. It comes from an online radio show I did with Jon Slade for Totally Radio in Brighton.
Added on May 25, 2011
Everett True
amazon , Autoboosh , Brighton , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Cat Power , Chan Marshall , Chicken Run , Coldplay , Dad's Army , Damaged Goods , Dublin , Dusty Springfield , Dusty The Musical , Elliott Smith , Front , Fun Lovin' Criminals , Graft , Grunge: The Everett True Years , Have I Got News For You , Hobomedia , Hunt Emerson , Jamie Sellers , John Robb , Jon Slade , Kathryn Williams , Kevin Shields , King's Reach Tower , Kurt Cobain , London , Mari Wilson , Mark Lamarr , Martin James , Mary Timony , Maslam , Maxim , Melody Maker , Metroland , Minesweeper , ninetynine , NME , Oasis , Passport To Pimlico , Peanuts , Plan B Magazine , Quasi , Reggie Perrin , Ronald Searle , Royal Trux , Seattle , Sleater-Kinney , Sonic Youth , Steven Berkoff , Supergrass , Tangents , The Browning Version , The Go-Betweens , The Guardian , the Millennium Dome , The Onion , The Simpsons , The Spice Girls , The Stranger , The Sun , The X-Files , Theatre Royal , Tony Benn , Uncut , Wichita Records
I want a little glamour around my presence: glamour is the last thing I possess right now. I don’t know if I’ll ever recapture that mood again.
Added on May 23, 2011
Hannah Golightly
Big Deal , Brighton , Cults , Fixers , Great Escape , Hannah Golightly , The History Of Apple Pie , Warpaint
The music and the dancing is infectious. and the crowd sway and dance as Cults work the room into a blissful frenzy.
Added on February 1, 2011
Everett True
001 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear , Brighton , Brisbane , iPod , Laura Marling , London , music critics , Music Writing , Pete And The Pirates , Southampton , Triple J Hottest 100 , Washington
“Having children gives you inhibition. There are things I couldn’t say any more because … people would get upset.”
Added on January 31, 2011
Everett True
Almost Famous , Brighton , California , Chuck Berry , Courtney Love , Emma Anderson , Facebook , Greil Marcus , Jonathan Franzen , knitting , Lesley Rankine , Lester Bangs , Lush , Meatmen , Miranda Sawyer , music press , Music Writing , Oprah Winfrey , Pauline Kael , Pitchfork , punk rock , sexism etc , Smash Hits , The Edge , The Stone Roses , The Wire
Imagine if the music critic in Almost Famous had been female. Any chance at all she wouldn’t have been portrayed as a groupie?
Added on January 27, 2011
Everett True
Alan McGee , Animal Collective , Brighton , Bust , Careless Talk Costs Lives , Creation Records , Daniel Johnston , Everett True , Facebook , Grease , London , Melody Maker , Nirvana , Nirvana The True Story , NME , Norman Mailer , Phil Collins , Pitchfork , Plan B Magazine , Reinspired , Saturday Night Fever , Silverfish , Smashing Pumpkins , Something Awful , Sonic Youth , The Deadnotes , The Legend , The Sex Pistols , The Thin Kids , Unconvention Brisbane , Vox
“I didn’t listen to pop music growing up,” he reveals. “If I listened to music, it would be something classical”
