Kid Wave – Twenty Four
Kid Wave Twenty Four It seems somewhat fitting that our first post of 2018 ( and the way the year has started quite possibly our last) arrives in the shape of VPME faves Kid Wave.
Happy New Year – New Years Eve Playlist
Well, we are still in “can’t be arsed mode,” surrounded as we are by empty bottles of the finest wines known to humanity, half-eaten pie crusts, blue cheese sodomised with cranberries, cranberries stuffed with blue
The VPME Christmas Show on IWFM Radio
The Von Pip Xmas Special on IWFM Radio So here it is, this year’s Von Pip Xmas special for IWFM Radio, rounding up some of the best modern Xmas tunes and proving that not all
The Highs The Lows And The Albums of 2017
The Albums of 2017 2017 has been a strange 12 months on a personal level, (ok for “strange” read “unremittingly shit.”) It’s also been a year when I’ve probably listened to fewer albums than any
In Pictures : Liam Gallagher At Manchester Arena – 16.12.17
Phil Greenhalgh provides a photo review for Liam Gallagher’s return to Manchester Arena for a triumphant and at times emotional climax to 2017. Support came from VPME favourites ‘Trampolene’, performing in a venue a world away from
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.1 – Yassassin
No.1 Ones To Watch 2018 Yassassin And at No1 it’s Anna, Joanna, Moa, Raissa & Ruth Aka Yassassin. The band whose members hail from Sweden, Italy, England and Australia have only been together just over
Video Of The Week – Chløë Black – Waterbed
A quick break from our ones to watch list 2018 to check in on our top tip from 2015. Chløë Black whose seductive fatalistic sense of doomed grandeur left us enraptured and slightly wobbly, has just
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.2 – Freak
Billy Bragg was once described as ‘a one-man Clash’, similarly, Chelmsford musician Freak was labelled “a one-man Nirvana’ early on in his career. And whilst it may be a snappy, albeit re-cycled sound bite it’s a rather
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.3 – Swimming Girls
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.3 – Swimming Girls Like last years No.1 tip, Dream Wife, Swimming Girls are another collective who started life as a ‘musical project’ before morphing into a fully fledged band.
One To Watch 2018 – No.4 – The Blinders
Ones to Watch 2018 – No.5 – The Blinders Visceral, unhinged, thrilling and chaotic. Just four words that could be used to describe The Blinders. We caught them in a sweaty basement at this year’s
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.5 – Miss World
Ones To Watch 2018 Miss World One of our musical highlights of 2017 was the arrival of Miss World the new musical project of London based artist Natalie Chahal (also half of Shit Girlfriend alongside
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.6 – Bang Bang Romeo
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.6 – Bang Bang Romeo (Adopts unctuous DJ voice- ) “Continuing our Ones To Watch 2018 – in with a bullet at No.6, it’s Sheffield’s Bang Bang Romeo” Yup Liverpool Sound