Blog: Fit For Moshing

Supported by fiN As we walk in to a very crowded Kasbah tonight and squeeze ourselves up against the bar, the support band are already playing. They're called fiN, yes that's 'fiN' with some eccentric reverse capitalisation, a lowercase 'f' and a capital 'N', presumably to distinguish themselves from early 90's band Fin, not that it makes a jot of difference to google. As they play away we barter with the girl on the bar to find exactly what's actually available tonight, beer - nope, San Miguel - ran out, wine - nope, [...]

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Welsh five piece Straight Lines seem to be going down well with the crowd as, running a bit late, I push my way to the front at the Rescue Rooms. They also seem quite well known. There's plenty of head bopping and even singing along. I've not come across them before and their punk/pop/hardcore blended sound could be described as sounding like everyone else's but it wouldn't be fair to say that on the few numbers I heard, so I won't say it, I'll just think it. [...]

Tonight we're in the intimate surroundings of the upstairs room at the Sheffield Academy, complete with a reassuringly sticky floor, as is so often the case in these places. It's nicely full which is good to see. Now I must confess that I'm coming a bit late to the party on this one. So late in fact that everyone else has got their coat and is making for the exit, including the band, who announced in March that this will be their farewell tour. They are of course 'The Bluetones', purveyors of thirteen Top 40 [...]

It's been a while since I went to a music festival on Wollaton Park and this is the first time I've paid. Those freebies were the Heineken festivals of the late eighties and early nineties, halcyon days. Later the historic hall looked down up on the City in the Park and Distortion festivals and now we have Splendour. An odd and slightly off putting name for a music festival if you ask me. The whole thing is organised by Nottingham City Council and ran by DHP Concerts, the [...]

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Is there something going on between Morning Parade and Feeder. The only other time I've seen Morning Parade is supporting Feeder (playing as Renegades) in Sheffield last year. The Essex boys, lead by a man called Sparrow, Steve Sparrow, seem to have honed their sound since then and have become the 'next big thing' or one of them. Probably the kiss of death really. They have a range of styles but seem to have cut back on the keyboards a touch and the guitars are a bit more prominent tonight, although some of their tracks do still border [...]

Last week we had HMV complaining they're on their uppers, now this week we have record clubs trying to re-launch vinyl . Personally I have no sympathy for HMV. They spent all my record buying youth (so we're going back anything up to 30 years) trying to shut down the little independent shops and when they'd managed it, in the end with help from the internet, they decided to stop selling records and sell computer games, DVDs and all manner of electronic equipment instead. Well, they don't sell anything not in current top 40, and even then [...]

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Tonight, a bit of an 80's night. The Human League at the Civic Hall. Support comes from '(We Are) Performance', a three piece from Manchester, who make a great sound. Although I keep looking around for their fourth member, the one who is bashing out all the amazing synth tunes. This is because they consist only of a suave looking singer, who's good; a girl with a guitar who only strums about three notes (not that that's a criticism, many a successful career has been founded on less) and an electronics whizz complete his MacBook but even he [...]

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Rock City haven't got the stage times up for tonight's concert but their website indicates three bands tonight so by getting there around 7.30 we expect to miss Dark Horses but we should be in time for the Duke Spirit, who I'm keen to see. Not so. Leila Moss is just finishing up with their last track as we arrive. Only two bands tonight and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on at 8.00. Oh well, at least not long to wait. Thankfully the band have made it up from last night's show in Portsmouth. I had a feeling a [...]

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