The Fag Machine + I Am Austin @ Focus Wales Festival, 28.05.11
If The Fag Machine were a band to listen to and jump up and down to, then I Am Austin are a band to dance and make love to.
Song of the day – 290: PJ Harvey (a mini-review)
Sure, I’m as intrigued as anyone. She polarises. Much of me wants to hate her, for the preciousness that surrounds her, the way she receives accolades usually reserved for male artists – why is it never the other way around? – for her treatment of music as art. Someone is putting her in for the […]
Spotlight – 37: The Unthanks
I’m usually extremely cynical about this sort of music, these arrangements, these voices. I mean, for starters, this is way too Jools Holland territory for me. There again, the amount of music that boogie-woogie man features on his BBC show – designer coffee-table or not – he has to get it right occasionally. Law of […]
