After nearly three and a half thousand words over the last three days on the blog, today deserves a rather shorter post as we suffer the inevitable post Great Escape comedown. Here’s the perfect video to start that comedown with. Undoubtedly one of our highlights of Brighton's new music festival, London Grammar ’s performance in a beautiful high vaulted church was as lofty, dignified and inspiring as the building itself and the closest we came to tears and [...]
With 20 things already learnt about 2013’s Great Escape in Brighton, (see review’s here and here ) Saturday found Breaking More Waves dodging the drunk hen and stag parties, townie clubbers and Morris Men (!) to find more new live music. 10 Facts We Learnt About Great Escape 2013 (Saturday). [...]
Day two of Brighton’s Great Escape Festival brings more music than you could possibly cram into any day. But we tried. Following our review of Thursday’s proceedings, here are 10 more things we learnt about the Great Escape 2013. 1 .Finding time to eat at Great Escape can be a problem. [...]
With the stars of tomorrow, the wannabe stars of tomorrow and the ones just doing it for the love of music irrespective of stardom or what happens tomorrow strumming, bashing, plucking and pressing their musical wares in every pub, club and gig venue down by the sea in Brighton over the course of three days it can only mean one thing. Yes, it’s the Great Escape Music festival; Brighton’s answer to SXSW and the UK’s largest and most established multi-venue new music festival. [...]
For the next three days, Brighton will be welcoming 16,000 music fans and industry delegates to its seaside environs for the biggest ever Great Escape Festival. Breaking More Waves will of course be in the thick of it and we’ll be reporting back via the blog with our thoughts, reviews and discoveries on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. (Expect our reports to be a little later than our usual 8.30am postings.) We'll also be tweeting from the event here . [...]
When we go to the barber’s there’s usually a look of fear in our eyes because of our undying concern that we’re going to be trapped into that conversation with the hairdresser about where we’re going on our holiday this summer. Maybe our hairdresser should take a tip from the new video from Moko and put a crazy dancing lady singing like Shara Nelson over a modern soulful r ‘n’b backing in the room? We’d pay extra for that and it would hopefully keep the man with the scissors quiet. [...]
Girls, here’s a word of warning. You’ve met the man of your dreams, he’s charming, good looking, attentive to your every need and seems pretty much perfect. This is great, but listen to those alarm bells when he admits to you that he quite likes playing video games. Because fast forward a year on and Indiana ’s new video for her single Smoking Gun , starring Andrew Shim (who many of you will recognise as Milky from [...]
Look. Let’s get this straight. If you’re searching for one of the best pop songs of 2013 so far, then this blog post features it. It’s Royals by New Zealand songstress Lorde . Off course we’ve already featured the song in a New Waves post a few months back and it's been all over the blogosphere, but now there’s a video. So as it’s one of the best songs of 2013 it would be [...]
This Brighton based four-piece might sound like they’ve stepped out of an indie time-warp machine stamped ‘early-90’s Brit guitar bands’ but in their tune It Takes Me Away they have a jangly gem that’s swollen with enough vibrant highs to make you want to don some big bell bottomed flares and swagger around the dance floor as if it’s 100% the right thing to do. For Phantom Runners' It Takes Me Away [...]
If you’re a fan of summery sounding shimmering synths and glossy electronic beauty then the new single from Scottish groove kids Discopolis is probably going to be right down your street. You may already be familiar with the Dubvision Remix of Falling (Committed To Sparkle Motion) , a full on sweaty club banger that’s been doing the rounds for a number of months, but today we’re featuring both the original mix (via Soundcloud) and then the radio-kissing polished to perfection version from Axwell, owner of Axtone records and one third of the recently split Swedish House Mafia. [...]
You have to applaud a band who call their debut album Everything’s Fucked don’t you? A brutal bit of nihilism shows that music hasn’t lost all its rage. Now don’t get us wrong, we like a nice soft, calming and beautiful pop tune to romance our ears, but we also like (occasionally) a dirty, sexy piece of anger and self-loathing to give us balance. So thank you Arrows of Love for keeping the dark side alive, we look forward to hearing your pessimistically titled debut later this year. [...]
When we first featured John Newman back on Breaking More Waves as a new wave in 2012 it felt a bit awkward. After all, here was a guy who had already had a number 1 single and at the time we were only just introducing him as a ‘new’ act. Our reasoning was that a lot of people hadn’t clocked Newman’s name yet because that number 1 was as a guest vocalist on Rudimental’s Feel The Love . Now [...]
West London’s Elliott Power sounds like he’s spent his whole life listening to some of the classic late 80's - mid 90's British soul and trip hop records. The whispered menacing vocal on Sink / Swim instantly harks back to Tricky’s 1995 album Maxinquaye , whilst the brooding but bouncy rhythms recall Soul II Soul or Massive Attack. But this isn’t just full on imitation. It may take reference, but it’s still fresh and intriguing enough to warrant more than just one cursory play. [...]
Hello. We’re back. When last week we posted that we were taking a few days off over the Bank Holiday weekend and suggested that we were a little exhausted, we had no idea that the zero energy feeling we were experiencing was the beginning of a nasty bout of illness. So our short break became nearly a week dosed [...]
Today is our last post on Breaking More Waves till next Tuesday. There’s a bank holiday coming up and we’re taking a few days out before that. There’s a real life outside of the internet. So we’ll leave you with this. We streamed Meg Myers ’ new single Heart Heart Head back in April and now there’s a video. [...]
It’s taking a while for Foxes to break through from blog seducer to mainstream lover isn’t it? We suggested that she was One to Watch for 2012 but the reality seems to be 2013 was more her year, having finally made it into the UK Top 40 riding on the back of Zedd . Of course we don’t actually mean that Foxes and Zedd were participating in a piggyback race, although that image would have [...]
Starkly minimal, haunting and possessing an almost uncomfortable vulnerability Indiana ’s new song titled Animal , taken from her forthcoming album, shows that sometimes less is more. A bit like this blog post. Indiana - Animal (Video)
This Scottish singer songwriter’s emotional torch songs sound like the soundtrack to a gothic Wild West movie, and they’re utterly immersive. Welcome to the world of Laura St Jude . This relatively new chanteuse from Glasgow, provides an interesting alternative to the vast majority of breathy ethereal singer songwriters that hit our earwaves these days. For Laura’s voice is sad and spectral, her twangy songs like a modern day version of Nancy Sinatra singing Bang Bang ; and [...]
Blog Sound of 2013 long list nominees Seasfire returned to the fray this week with new single Oh Lucifer and it’s a bit of a devil. Less dreamy and lights turned down at 3am than their previous work, Oh Lucifer assaults with frazzling guitar riffs that get closer to the territory of bands like Muse or parts of the second (rather disappointing) Hurts LP. The electronic throbs and pulses are still there but with Oh Lucifer they’re taking a backseat. [...]
On Saturday 27th April the UK festival season kicked off properly with the inaugural Are You Listening? Festival in Reading, Berkshire. The polar opposite of the ‘other’ festival held at the end of August in the same town, AYL is an intimate multi-venue event featuring mainly local bands or artists having a connection to the area. At a price of just £10 for the whole day with all profits being donated to charity (Reading Mencap) it provided excellent value for those who can’t afford the exorbitant prices of the behemoth summer festivals. [...]
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