Links to all of the jpg files for this year’s Fugitive Motel Review Of The Year will gradually be made available between now and 00.01 on Monday, December 22nd for those of you outside the UK. There are a super-limited 200 physical copies of the review floating around the UK. A full list of stockists [...]
Live Reviews
Glad Tidings Of Comfort And Joy
Tim And Sam’s Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam plus Magic Arm and Edmund Cottam Sacred Trinity Church, Salford Thursday, November 27th 2008 Eddie Izzard once made a joke about Anglican vicars being more Bloody Mary than Hail Mary, and Rev. Andy of Sacred Trinity embodies this in the nicest possible way. [...]
Fugitive Motel Review Of The Year
Watch the video to “No Surprise” by James Yuill
Hear ye, hear ye! The Fugitive Motel Review of the Year 2008 is complete! 32 lovely little A5 pages rolled out of the Motel Towers printer last night and they are going to be whisked off to a newsagent’s for photocopying this afternoon with distribution starting this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this lovely [...]
Fugitive Motel Review Of The Year
Watch the video to “Heartbeat” by Late of the Pier
Heartbeat may have been out for a good old while now, but why not celebrate the second of the Fugitive Motel Review of the Year’s featured artists, Late Of The Pier, with a reprise of one of the tunes of the summer? A slow grower, Heartbeat blends stadium rock riffs with insistent electro beats. Marvellous. [...]
Music: Reviews
Coldplay – Prospekt’s March EP
Coldplay – Prospekt’s March EP (EMI/Parlophone) November 24th, 2008 3.0/6.0 Viva La Vida was a pleasant break away from Coldplay’s super-duper selling collection of thirteen radio friendly unit shifters that made up 2005′s X&Y, a record that stuck all too rigidly to a verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure. Fortunately, their fourth album was more adventurous and lyrically superior [...]
Music: Reviews
Hafdis Huld – Stop
Hafdis Huld – Stop (Red Grape Records) 3.5/6.0 November 24th, 2008 Given the current state of Iceland (economic meltdown, not to mention practical blanket darkness in winter) it’s nice to see a shining light of pop dazzle the eyes of the beleaguered island’s music lovers. This cover of Sam Brown’s classic has recently featured in [...]
Live Reviews
Ladies First
Ladytron with Asobi Seksu Academy 2, Manchester Monday, November 24th 2008 After putting out both their most broad and polished release to date, plus touring the world three times over in the last year or so, electro pioneers Ladytron find themselves entertaining the good folks of Manchester. A decent following have turned out on a [...]
Fugitive Motel Review Of The Year
Watch the video to Sky Larkin’s new single “Beeline”
Hear ye, hear ye! The Fugitive Motel Review of the Year 2008 is currently about 70% complete and we are hoping to get it into independent record stores and cafes in cities across the UK by the third week in December. As soon as we start distributing a list of “outlets” will be made available. [...]