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Eels - Useless Trinkets – B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996 – 2006 (Universal)
January 21st, 2008
5.0/6.0
Whilst there may be many bands for whom a collection of B-sides may be nothing more than a money grabbing attempt to create a mediocre album from a set of second rate songs, this is where the Eels, or more precisely, Mark Everett, comes into his own.
Xfm X-Posure presents...Operator Please Night and Day Cafe, Manchester Friday November 23rd, 2007 Since their arrival in the North West in spring 2006, Xfm have prided themselves on bringing new music into the public eye in Manchester, especially live music at Night and Day's infamous X-Posure nights, and tonight proves to be no exception. Operator [...]
Andrew Bird
Academy 3, Manchester
Thursday, November 8th 2007
Several of Bird’s songs build up from the tiniest little sounds and I don’t think I have ever been to a gig where the silence is so loud. You could have heard a pin drop as every single member of the audience eagerly awaits the next note.
Athlete & Loney, Dear Academy 1, Manchester Sunday, October 14th 2007 You could be mistaken for thinking that since Manchester's Academy 1 is still a building site, gigs might not be held there yet. However, as the saying goes, the show must go on. So, music fans are herded through temporary fences placed on the [...]
They're capable of creating such a diverse sound, from heart-breaking acoustic tracks such as Afterthought that can silence any crowd, to indie, Strokes-eque anthems like It All Means Nothing To Me, feeding an audience's urge to dance.
Voxpops from Festival International de Benicassim, in which we make punters choose between Rufus Wainwright and Bright Eyes with hilarious results...
Loney, Dear - Saturday Waits (Regal) July 16th, 2007 5.4/6.0 Saturday Waits is the second single by Loney, Dear, aka Swedish singer-songwriter Emil Svanängen to come out on general release. If Swedish music conjures images of 17 members of I'm From Barcelona crowded into a disabled toilet excitably singing nursery rhymes, you may be interested [...]
Pull Tiger Tail – Hurricanes (B-Unique Records) June 18th, 2007 3.8/6.0 Pull Tiger Tail's fourth single Hurricanes is such a fun, poppy little ditty that it'll get not just their target audience of 15-18 year olds dancing, but it may also have the same effect upon the more mature listeners who stumble across it. Despite [...]
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards (V2 Records) February 5th, 2007 (re-release) 4.5/6.0 Since Top of the Pops disappeared, it has become very difficult to tell whether a band has really “made it” or not. However, Cold War Kids recently appeared on Later with Jools Holland, which has got to be some sort of [...]
The novelty of owning an album with such a perfect mix of pop, ballads and orchestral symphonies, - which always guarantees to lift the spirits - has never worn off.
