Last year I started writing for a magazine called CALMzine , the publication of CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), a nonprofit charity that was founded with support from trustee (and of course, someone who looms very large in the story of Manchester's musical heritage) Tony Wilson in 2006. CALM's initial intention and continuing campaign has been to help fight the high suicide rate of men under the age of 35 in the UK. While the campaign, Web site, magazine and online community targets men in this age group, the support [...]
In these enlightened days, it seems like complete and utter nonsense that healthcare has, for some, become something financially out of reach. There is nothing more heart-wrenching that to hear about a child who is very ill and can't get the treatment she needs because the treatment costs some astronomical amount. Billie Bainbridge is a 4-year old English girl. And she has a very rare type of brain tumour. The treatment options in the UK are limited for such a rare condition but the good news is that Billie has been accepted into a clinical trial [...]
I Am Kloot, Crawdaddy Stage Quite an early start for the notoriously heavy-drinking I Am Kloot and John Bramwell does confirm to us that he did have a big night. We get a long, orchestral introduction and then sweep into the most recent album's opener, 'Northern Skies', just tender enough for the aching heads and lively enough to stop us falling asleep. The three-piece have been upped to six for the show and this means we get some live brass and a big sound, which is just as well as the thumping sound from the Electric [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News PA Blondie , Mystery Jets , I Am Kloot , Leftfield and the legendary Martha Reeves and the Vandellas have been announced as playing this year's Secret Garden Party festival. They're just some of the main acts revealed so far playing the four-day event's 12 stages in the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside near Huntingdon, with more to be [...]
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…listening a lot to I Am Kloot . The main purpose was to check out Sky At Night , but instead I've spent more time reacquainting myself with the superior Natural History . …enjoying the new Bright Eyes track Shell Games . It's free , it's good and has rather unexpectedly made me look forward to his [...]
On termine l'année avec le traditionnel classement de mes albums préférés de l'année 2010. Pour chaque album, un lien vers un de mes articles ou un d'un collègue si je n'en ai pas parlé, une toute petite explication de la présence du disque dans le top en passant la souris sur la pochette et un titre en écoute dans le lecteur en bas de page. #30 Clogs - The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton [...]
Acclaimed trio I Am Kloot announce January 2011 tour John Bramwell to play solo set at Little Noise Sessions - November 18th I Am Kloot will be heading out on the road in January for an eleven date tour of the UK. Ten new shows join the Manchester trio's previously announced date at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on January 28th, where former Beta Band man, Steve Mason will be the special guest support. [...]
Standard edition of the 2010 release from the Manchester Alt-Rock trio. Following 2007's I Am Kloot Play Moolah Rouge, Sky At Night further goes to cement John Bramwell's status as one of the most... Download your favourite album at The Mood Indicator
I Am Kloot - new single "Fingerprints" released November 8th Trio play London show on January 28th I Am Kloot are set to release "Fingerprints" from their acclaimed Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize nominated album, 'Sky At Night' on November 8, 2010 as a digital download. Buy CDs, MP3s, more: I Am Kloot on Amazon.co.uk [...]
A diferencia de la mayoría de los premios norteamericanos, que con los años han ido perdiendo la credibilidad gracias a dudosas elecciones y ridículas categorizaciones, el Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize ha logrado conservar su aura de prestigio dentro de la música inglesa, gracias a sus concienzudas nominaciones y sus normalmente justas, aunque no por eso menos polémicas, elecciones. Este año el jurado compuesto por músicos, periodistas y profesionales de la industria decidió darle el ansiado premio al grupo que desde un principio se perfilaba como uno de los favoritos, The xx , quienes [...]
When Lauren Laverne revealed the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominees in July, I was truly shocked by the lack of true 'pop' and the abundance of folk albums given a nod. Despite that, I was pretty happy to see several of the nominees up for the award in 2010 were we've featured here on TGTF. Just in case you haven't heard, the winner of the Mercury Prize receives a hefty £20,000 prize. Surprisingly (or not?) the Modfather himself Paul Weller and his 10th solo album 'Wake Up the Nation' made [...]
Tomorrow night we will finally find out which album will be crowned the winner of the 2010 Mercury Prize . I've asked each of our writers to choose which album they think should win the gong this year, as well as which album they think was criminally absent from the 2010 shortlist. Hopefully you have watched the scene in the film 'On the Waterfront' where Marlon Brando says those iconic lines, "I coulda been a contendah! I coulda been somebody!" If not, watch this and you'll get my meaning: [...]
La historia de la música está llena de bandas lo suficientemente buenas para llegar al estrellato, pero que por razones inexplicables se han quedado titilando como estrellas menores del firmamento musical. Los fans rabiosos del indie hemos llegado simplemente a la conclusión que el resto del mundo tiene mal gusto, aunque secretamente nos alegramos de que nuestra banda o grupo preferido se quede en la trinchera, pues no hay algo más insoportable que escuchar tu canción favorita en el más reciente anuncio de una nueva marca de perfume. Las dos bandas involucradas en nuestra reseña [...]
Otro jueves que pasa y otra semana en la que Jackie, César, Joaquín, Facundo, Adrián y yo buscamos canciones que nos gustan y valen la pena, al menos según nuestros gustos musicales, para recomendarle a nuestros queridos lectores . Esta vez les hicimos una lista bastante tranquila, conformada por cinco canciones con muchas guitarras, algunas muy acústicas y otras con exóticos sonidos. El top 5 comienza con Villagers y termina con El Guincho, así que entre medio se podrán imaginar que hay sonidos de todo tipo . Algunas cosas probablemente las amarán y otras [...]
Conor Oberst (Villagers) J'vous présente Erwan, connu dans la blogosphère musicale grâce à son blog The Man of Rennes Steals Our Hearts et à sa participation à Dans le mur... du son ! . Il a mis son activité de blogging entre parenthèses, mais ses connaissances et goûts en matière de folk (et autres) (mais surtout folk) étaient trop intéressants pour les laisser inutilisés alors je lui ai proposé de parler dans le Choix, quand ça lui chante, de ses coups de coeur. [...]
This is a completely mixed up mixtape consisting of songs from the summer with a few older tunes thrown in to celebrate "The Best Bloggerin' Week Ever" . It is essentially a weird combination of favorite songs from the past year-ish, leaving out a lot of obvious ones, mixed with this month's new favorites. This week I redesigned the blog, added the media player, spent some hard earned cash on a file storage site, created some new accounts, added some fancy buttons, did some HTML magic, and threw [...]
Enjoy the brand new Q&A session below. Be certain to watch 'Proof' here. MP3: I Am Kloot - Three Feet Tall
I Am Kloot es una de esas bandas que hoy en día deberían ser súper famosas pero a quien las circunstancias han colocado como un grupo de culto adorado por algunos y reconocido por la crítica pero no a nivel mundial. Un gran paso hacía el reconocimiento global parece ser su nueva producción, Sky at Night , producida por Guy Garvey y Craig Potter de Elbow y que entre sus reconocimientos cuenta ya con la nominación al prestigiado Mercury Music Prize de este año. Este álbum no sólo [...]
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