Just a little sweep up of the last of my Green Man recordings… Richard James , leading his band Pen Pastwyn through a few songs played as a backdrop to some "experimental" video montages: The wonderful Darwin Deez , putting a smile on everyone's face, with their between song dance routines: And the incomparable Gentleman's Dub Club – a bit rowdie [...]
Cardiff's Islet have made the following video for your viewing pleasure...
The multi-instrumented Islet have a new video to accompany 'We Shall Visit', taken from their latest mini-album Celebrate This Place . Islet, who are known as much for their amazing live shows (where they often involve the audience and switch between instruments continuously) as they are for their media-shy personalities, use the directing skills of Ewan Jones Morris to portray their eclectic sound. The band have also just announced details of an October/September UK tour, the dates being, Winchester, Railway (September 24th) Southampton, Lennons [...]
<<<< AWAITING PACKSHOT >>>>> Hearing that Islet have put out a mini-album feels like a "Judas!" moment, so used are we to the way their star has risen almost by stealth. Alright, the Cardiff band have done normal things like NME features and support tours, but their much vaunted lack of web presence, inscrutable instrument swapping live sets and DIY artistic sidelines gave them the feel of a band who worked entirely away from the modern rock'n'roll carousel. Not that the six tracks on Celebrate This Place exactly constitute a sell-out, self-recorded in their [...]
Wychwood Festival is a very civilised, very adult affair. Casting your eye over the sun kissed crowds under the Prestbury Hills by Cheltenham it's easy to identify the significant number of families, the happy relaxed vibe, the lack of trouble, the lack of litter on the campsites, the picnic blankets and queues for the smoothie stall that are often longer than those for the bar. "Welcome to the summer," shout The Levellers during their unpretentious punk-folk headlining slot on the Friday night, and certainly Wychwood feels like the curtain being drawn [...]
Oh hi guys! I haven't got a lot of time to blog, as mentioned before, so I decided to put a couple of musical things I enjoy together in one post. DOM - Living In America [ mp3 ] "It's so sexyyyyy to be living in America" This pretty much says it all. Amazing, fresh summer sing-a-long jam. I can see myself dancing to this on a festival as the sun goes down... Hopefully this won't just stay a dream/thought. [...]
As far as one day multi-venue events go Nottingham's leg of the sixth annual Dot To Dot is helpfully localised (and helpfully dry, too). The eight rooms in use span five venues - Rock City, Nottingham Trent University and Stealth all have upstairs and downstairs stages - and only the Bodega is a significant distance away, albeit still walkable within ten minutes or so. For someone who usually ends up packing as many bands into a viewing schedule as possible on the offchance, it makes the plan of action taking potential demand into account a lot easier. As it happened, [...]
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The world islet refers to a very small island with minimal vegetation and no wildlife. The band Islet is certainly none of these things, being as far away from the word small as you could possibly imagine. Their sound is huge, and it challenges you with something new around every corner, the only problem being that there isn't much you can say to actually describe Islet's sound. Many of the Islet descriptions around the web all seem to head in a similar direction, proclaiming things like "Islet shuns the web" and "They don't even [...]
I'm afraid the gig listings this week are going to be little more than a great steaming post of Toadspam. We've a lot on this week, and I'd hate to think you'd let other people's wonderful creative efforts distract you from the fact that the most important thing you can do this week is give a needy, gin-soaked virtual amphibian a bit of validation. So as such please bear in mind that it is most definitely NOT the This is Music fourth birthday celebrations this Friday, and Meursault are certainly NOT going to go down to Sneaky Pete's [...]
Countless bands are guilty of hurling every recording into cyberspace; in a hope that someone will listen. But such a maelstrom of material can lead to audio overload for even the most devoted music fan. So when the rumblings began about a great band from Cardiff called Islet it came as quite a surprise to find their web presence was next to nothing. An absence of tweets about what they were having for dinner or photos of them trying to look moody on MySpace generated more mystique and interest than the rest of the faces in [...]
If you're an Oxfordshire native, or if you just can't handle the massive crowds at the larger festivals, then from July 23rd to 25th, I'd recommend heading down to Hill Farm, Steventon, for the 13th Annual Truck Festival . Drawing around 5,000 punters each year, the festival gets its name from the flat-bed trailer they use as the main stage, and has a total of six stages, offering everything from Americana to post-rock to electronica. The Barn Stage hosts buzz bands during the day and on Saturday night hosts the Cow-shed Rave. You'll find acoustic and country artists at [...]
picture courtesy of ShakerRecords #1. Islet (Indie Rock/Math-Rock/Post-Punk) The saying goes here as much as ever "you want what you can't have", and its definitely the curiousity described here that makes me as determined as ever to get hold of some online material about Islet, a band who's live show i've heard so much about. They've ended up gaining as much industry attention for their publicised 'shun' of the internet as they have for their music, exchanging [...]
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