Kimberly Steaks – Stay Another Day (self-released charity single) Tis the season for novelty Christmas Song Covers it seems, a perilous area for any band.
Read moreKimberly Steaks – Confessions of a Justified Cynic (Brassneck Records, 2020)
I like The Kimberly Steaks, they are fully on my hit list to get on at my pub (The Salty Dog, Northwich) once the plague
Read moreAerial Salad – Dirt Mall (Roach Industries / Plasterer Records, 2020)
When Aerial Salad played my place one of them came to the bar and asked for a black coffee, when it arrived he requested ice
Read moreGet Dead – Dancing With The Curse (Fat Wreck Chords, 2020)
Fat Wreck Chords, long time listener, first timer reviewer… here we go then with Get Dead’s ‘Dancing The Curse’. I have to admit to not
Read more7in & EP round-up November 2019
Mystery Girl – Heartbreaker 7in EP (Brain Slash Records, 2019) The more astute of you lot out there may remember me reviewing the last joint
Read more7in and EP roundup July 2019 (part 3)
The Drowns – The Sound 7in (Pirates Press Records) If you somehow slept on it, The Drowns released their debut full length, ‘View From the
Read more7in & EP round-up – July 2019 (part 1)
Fuck man. This is so weird. None of this stuff is bad. I’m proper weirded out. There’s usually at least one duffer in the set.
Read moreCJ Ramone – The Holy Spell… (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)
Hey, how many albums can you think of that changed your perspective on something? The Holy Spell… was one of those albums for me. I
Read moreThe Smoking Popes – Into The Agony (Asian Man Records, 2018)
I first heard Smoking Popes back in the early nineties, when “I Need You Around” was featured in the movie Clueless. It wasn’t until I
Read moreArt Thieves – Russian Rats (State Line Records, 2018)
My transatlantic (transatlantean?) buddy Mark Lind has been talking up the buzz on Art Thieves for quite some time now, and threatening to unleash the
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