Twin Brother, Brighton multi-instrumentalist Alex Wells, impressed last year with his album Actors & Liars. A fine record and a good year for Wells' which included a slot at Glastonbury, while the festival may be taking its customary break Wells' will be hoping to build on the successes of 2011 this year. New song 'The Grave', [...]
Often it's difficult to write about music that you love, obviously here at HMCMB we love all of the music we write about, but, naturally, our personal preferences dictate that we shall love some more than others. And that's no bad thing. That's where I found myself in such a difficult position, with an act that ticks as many boxes for me as Twin Brother does, it becomes increasingly difficult to write about them. Whether it's because I felt under pressure to write something that would do them justice, or because I just didn't know what to say, it [...]
The freshly converted are always the worst. Born again Christians, ex smokers, and in my case, those who never showed much interest in going to Glastonbury but now - courtesy of a ticket from the very kind organisers of the Emerging Talent competition - stand transformed into a grade A #glasto bore. While theres clearly some truth in the charge that over 40 years the festival has become more commercial, less edgy and enevitably at £195 pounds a ticket overrun by the middle classes. I can only judge it through [...]
For a couple of months now us HMCMBers have been recording a podcast "Hey Man, Check My Band's Fortnightly Fix" showcasing our favourite four tracks of the moment, the best of the blogs, for our good friends Recharged Radio . We've also been inexplicably lax at mentioning that fact on here, as the number in the title would indicate, this is episode number 5 and the first time we have actually mentioned it on the blog! Further title inference suggests that seeing as the podcast is named "Fortnightly Fix" it ought to be airing every 14 days... Once again [...]
Jun 21, 2011, 3:50pm
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Tweet In a little under 12 hours gates will be opening for Glastonbury 2011 and nearly 180,000 people will be flooding (which might not be the only floods) Worthy Farm for the UK's most prestigious music festival. I'm not going to Glastonbury this year but nonetheless I decided to gather together the best previews the blogosphere could offer for all our readers that are on their way to a traffic jam on the M4/M5/A303. Breaking More Waves [...]
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[ DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW / LISTEN TO RESONANCE ] Brighton indie rock band Twin Brother , second place in this year's Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition, at the BBC Introducing Stage at 12 noon on Friday. 1. Twin Brother - Lungs ( MP3 ) Norwich-based noise merchants (depicted above) Spotlight Kid , on the BBC Introducing Stage later that day (Friday @ 6.00pm) 2. Spotlight Kid - Haunting Me ( MP3 ) One of last year's most blogged-about [...]
Friday was undoubtedly the busiest of the three days, helped largely by getting to Brighton in time to actually see those playing during the day! Having failed to get into Komedia's Studio Bar to see Lucy Rose, we ended up downstairs instead; a good move that took us to Friday's discovery of the day in the shape of pop-folk group The General . In spite of their apparent elusiveness, I can't even seem to find a Facebook page, they were enjoyable to watch, especially when they pulled out a cover of It Don't Mean A Thing and [...]
This week I am, yet again, doing my bit for local bands by introducing you to Brighton based Twin Brother . Despite having just lost out to last week's Introducing act Treetop Flyers at Saturday's final of the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Contest, this quartet undoubtedly deserve your attention, and the slot that they receive at the festival simply for being a finalist. The deep vocal tones lend the tracks an intriguing darkness, especially on lead song Lungs , which allow the band to stand out as unique from many of their new music peers. This, coupled [...]
After all the effort, the long hours, the selection of judges, the we're finally on the eve of the final of the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition 2011. Eight acts will battle it out i n front of a live audience at The Pilton Working Men's Club, Shepton Mallet. Sue Wheeler, the Glastonbury Festival ETC Co-ordinator has taken some time out from the frantic arrangements for this important event in the music calendar to tell the Devil about her favourite Glastonbury memory, her fantasy Glastonbury line-up and her plans for [...]
Twin Brother From: Brighton, United Kingdom After waxing lyrical about the amazing Twin Sister last year I thought I'd keep the Equality and Human Rights Commission off my case by checking out Brighton's Alex Wells aka Twin Brother (not to be confused with his non identical American relatives Twin Brother ) . Judging by the tracks on his Soundcloud site it seems that this Twin Brother (one of the Glastonbury ETC [...]
Monday saw the announcement of the Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition Shortlist. The long list of 123 artists, of which Breaking More Waves helped compile, was whittled down to a shortlist of 8. The final 8 are, in alphabetical order: Emily and the Woods , J Treole , Louise and the Pins , My First Tooth , My Tiger My Timing , Treetop Flyers , Tristam and Twin Brother . You can hear all of the bands on the player below. [...]
I made my way down to see Brighton band 'Twin Brother' in support of 'Kill It Kid' at the Prince Albert last night, but unfortunately the headline act never made it to the show. Their car broke down en route from the last stop of their tour, and they never recovered from it. This paved the way for a late start, and for some reason unbeknownst to me, Twin Brother (originally main support), stayed second in command, though in every sense of the word, it felt like the show belonged to them. From what I gather, they've been [...]
From the neon lights of Sin City beams Twin Brother and their illuminating debut album, Best Frenzy. Both organically and sonically meandering between 1800's piano parlors, 1950's roller rinks with pipe organs and 21 st century psychedelia, these indie experimental-pop enthusiasts are far too audacious an act to pin down to any one genre. With their elegant, lonesome harmonics whirled with frenetic, synthesized avant-noise, this Nevada quintet has crafted a sound resembling a space-age hybrid of old-timey folk and futuristic prog-metal. At times epic and grandiose and at others quietly abstract, [...]
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