Woohooo! That's the only succinct way to describe my completely amazing weekend spent at Lowlands festival. After leaving last Thursday lunchtime I worked my way north through the country towards Lelystad, the part of Holland where this three day event took place. Lowlands 2007 was nothing short of fantastic- the line-up was in my opinion inferior to last year's but the quality of the music was great throughout. Following a 3 hour trek towards the festival gates I realised in arriving first I had been set the nigh-on impossibly task of saving enough space for the 19 (yes- [...]
Over the next couple of days I doubt there will be much action on The Cold Cut. I'm going away to Lowlands music festival on Thursday and will be back on Monday next week. For now, I should be able to post a few time over the next couple of days but I just thought I should let everyone know in advance.
I was browsing through my iTunes library the other day and saw with a sharp pang of familiarity the name 'Ours'. They were a bit of a favourite in my family whilst we lived in Houston a couple of years ago- I have fond memories of listening to them in the Chrysler convertible on hot summer days. Formed way back in 1992 by vocal prodigy Jimmy Gnecco, they sound like a goth Jeff Buckley, mostly because of Gnecco's fantastic voice. Unfortunately where Buckley became instantly famous after Grace, Ours have laboured for the last 15 years over two albums and [...]
I've been meaning to update the overall look of this blog for a while now, and today I finally got around to creating a new header and some better templates. Hope you like it- there will be some more changes coming over the next couple of weeks.
A wave of sadness/joy was felt when Test Icicles broke up last year, shortly after releasing their first album, For Screening Purposes Only. Made up of three young guys by the names of Rory Atwell, Sam Mehran and Dev Hynes, the latter of whom has started his own solo-project in wake of their breakup. Lightspeed Champion, his latest creative output, is a completely different ball game to Test Icicles; whereas they spliced together genres (rapcore, punk-pop etc...) into a mess which only vaguely resembles music, Lightspeed Champion is all about Dev Hynes distancing himself from the chaotic punk band that [...]
For every generation or progression of music there is a band who are unmoving, who inexplicably never get the popularity and commercial acclaim they deserve. For my father's generation he would be quick to tell you it was G.E.N.E, and in Moke I have unfortunately found the most recent representation of this principle. It's a really sad thing, because after listening to their two critically acclaimed albums (Superdrag and Carnival), its obvious that they deserved to make it big. Follow this link to Amazon and you will see that both albums received stunning reviews across the board, but [...]
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Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
