Reviews of music releases, live shows, and more from the VPME
“Expectation” they say “is the root of all heartache” but having followed Dublin five piece September Girls from their early days we did expect great things from their début album ‘Cursing The Sea.’ Formed in
Let us not get too hung up on the title of I Break Horses second album ‘Chiaroscuro.‘ Rather than anally debate whether the title, an Italian term, which literally means ‘light-dark’ and in art is
There is often talk in the music industry of a “third album syndrome” in which an artist is faced with a number of creative dilemmas: To experiment and try a new direction, to play it
When rumours of a new, edgy all girl garage group from Manchester called PINS first started to circulate, our interest was piqued. Blurred shadowy, stylised images started to emerge online, and buzz-bloggers/tastemakers started to wax
Valentiine are from Melbourne Australia and consist of Vanessa V on guitar and vocals, Erica E on bass and Shelly K on drums. They’ve recently unleashed their self titled début album in the UK and
Photo Credit – Lisa Devine – http://www.lisadevinephotography.co.uk/ Helen Marnie appears to be a person who’s not one for letting the grass grow under her feet. Despite over a decade’s worth of acclaim and heavy duty
The Urban music festival has much to recommend it. Access to proper loos for example, a comfy bed at the end of the night and the reassurance that in the event of the heavens opening
Day 1 | Day 2 | And so it came to pass that on the third day of Liverpool Sound City our hangover had swelled to Brobdingnagian proportions! We awoke gripped by ‘the F.E.A.R.’ aka
Day 1 | Day 3 | Day 2 kicked off with a not inconsiderable hangover eased slightly by a conference hosted by 6 Music new music champion Tom Robinson. He was joined by those nice
Day 2 | Day 3 | Liverpool Sound City 2013 – three days of amazing music and mayhem that left us utterly exhausted, but provided us with memories of some genuinely life affirming highs of
Public Service Broadcasting’s bold manifesto is to ‘teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future.’ The London based experimental musical duo consisting of J.Willgoose Esq. and Wrigglesworth II take samples from
FEATHERS, one of our top tips for 2013 are set to release their début album “If All Now Here” on April 15th. Happily we can report that it’s a genuinely fabulous début from a collective