In these lonely times of exams, I'm sure everyone could use a musical crush. And definitely this one! I've been into We Have Band now for a couple of months and I've still not grown tired of their tunes. We Have Band are pretty new, they are unsigned at the moment but did have their song Hear It In The Cans on the Kitsuné 6 compilation. They've got a new single out on the 15th of June called You Came Out and the video premiered on MySpace yesterday. It looks like [...]
Oh dear god almighty I have a hangover. Fucking bastard music people. Last night there was gigging and drinking and wandering the streets of a most balmy and pleasant Edinburgh with an assortment of miscreants and other ne'er-do-wells. We saw Honeytrap and Meursault play at Sneaky Pete's - I was recording this podcast, hence late for X-Lion Tamer, sorry to both Ed and Tony - and it was fucking amazing. And after that there was drinking. Fuck me there was lots of drinking. And then I came home and went into the local all night shop and purchased [...]
This week I discovered Women's Shoes Syndrome. I wore leather shoes for the first time in something like six years on Saturday and Christ am I paying the price now. I'm sure the women reading this are most likely to be making comments along the lines of men not being able to take the suffering and not really understanding the concept of pain and childbirth is shit etc etc etc but that really isn't my question. My question is Why? Honestly, if it's always this painful, why the fuck do you bother? It's the equivalent of a child burning itself [...]
16. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid This is far from Elbow's best album, in my opinion, but it's bloody good nevertheless. There's a definite confidence about Elbow these days - a swagger almost - that is pretty much the defining characteristic of this record. Elbow - Starlings 17. Devotchka - A Mad & Faithful Telling It's slightly amazing to think that these guys started off as a novelty cabaret band, considering that they've now released [...]
I've been waiting for a while for this one, and it doesn't disappoint. I have one quibble, and I'll get it out of the way nice and early so I can concentrate on the good stuff: the new version of Death Before the Silver Screen is not a patch on the original. So there. As for the rest of the album, bloody marvellous. Big Dan has honed his tortured wail to a fine point, and Little Dan's violin is a ray of sunshine. It all sounds subtly different from what I was expecting, as [...]
Artist: Honeytrap Album: Follies in Popular Cities Release Date: 09.06.2008 Style: Rock Myspace: www.myspace.com/honeytraponmys pace MP3: Mussolini's Son
Fuck me people, pull yourselves together. This is not a Radiohead, nor a Snow Patrol, nor a Travis fanboy site (Oxford comma there - everyone get that? Cunts). This is a place for people to bring new things and to get really fucking excited about folk having a go, showing some spunk and trying to [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, do give yourselves a pat on the back because you are reading a blog that is where it's at, on the button, sniffing giddily at the crotch of the winning hound, surfing the bleeding edge of the breaking music razor's edge wave thingy and mixing its metaphors like Anna Nicole mixed her pharmaceuticals. In the Times this week David Bowie writes an article about emerging bands and top of his little list are Toad favourite Honeytrap . You may recall I mentioned them ages ago, but it's [...]
Having mentioned The Men They Couldn't Hang in my previous Thunderegg post I was immediately struck by memories of one of their most thunderous and angry songs. Going Back to Coventry is a raging guitar-folk-punk number from one of their earlier albums - How Green is the Valley. The Men They Couldn't Hang - Going Back to Coventry The Coventry reference reminded me of two things. Firstly, The Specials - fucking brilliant, aren't they? And, secondly, when was the last time a good band came out of Coventry? Coventry, for [...]
Well spank me, these lads are good. I wrote a bit about the excellent Down the Tiny Steps earlier in the week, and although the two bands sound nothing like each other, they have a certain attribute in common - unclassifiability. Listening to Honeytrap they can sound like a totally different band, depending on the song you pick. Going to their myspace page for a wee browse you can hear anything from the happy (yet rather cutting) folk-pop, laced with jaunty violin of their first single Andy the [...]
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