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Scouting For Girls Announce UK Winter Tour
August 18, 2008 · 1 Comment
Scouting For Girls are pleased to announce details of their UK Winter Tour. The British indie-pop sensations will kick off the tour in Bournemouth on the 1st November and conclude at London ’s Brixton Academy on the 27th November. The band finish their current Spring tour on 29th May which has included a record-breaking 4 sold-out nights at London ’s Shepherds Bush Empire. Scouting For Girls reached number 1 with their debut album, ‘Scouting For Girls’ in January of this year, and have sold in excess of half a... [Read the full story]
Albums
Sic Alps – US EZ (Stiltbreeze)
August 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The fourth outing in as many years San Francisco kraut-surfers Mike Donovan and Matt Hartman, aka Sic Alps, is a curiously partial realisation of an album. Sparse to the point of skeletal, tracks rarely reach the three minute mark, choosing or rather being chosen to die young, cut off in their prime. It’s a very uneasy feeling, which deserves some elucidation. Imagine please an empty beach in Germany where the breakers roll in and are seen only by the ghosts of two young American musicians, trying to piece together... [Read the full story]
Singles
Charli XCX - !Francheskaar!
July 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Get a proper job! Get a haircut! When are you going to grow up? These are some of the comments that get leveled at me every day - why can’t they understand? Don’t they know that we realise it’s all so pointless and tragic. Still enough about us over thirties, what about those poor misunderstood teenagers, full of anger and armed to the teeth with mater and pater’s money? Okay, so maybe I’m being flippant, but they don’t exactly make it easy to sympathise with them. Fortunately, some of... [Read the full story]
Live
The Complete and Utterly Inaccurate Latitude Report - Sunday
July 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Sunday Sunday morning finds me surprisingly spry after a relatively good night’s sleep. The children’s parade starts at twelve and there is free tea and cake in the playgroup tent (thank you, Southwold’s local church group) and everything is good with the world. It always seems a shame that by the time everyone really gets into the festival spirit, it ends, but the small mercy is that by now everyone is in the zone. Even the parents - the littluns have been there since day one. The parade is a chaotic triumph... [Read the full story]
Demos
Monsters of Post-Rock
July 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
By now you’ve read the tour blog, seen the photos and tried to book a gig in Birmingham through Professor Robot, so it seems only fair to put up the interview that Tom and Rich gave before the tour – see if you can spot the irony lurking amidst these lines… They’re not what you’d expect them to be, these two. Glissando spin out epic black candyfloss confections as light as air, as mournful as Penelope’s shroud, built insubstantially from minimal piano phrases, ambient synths, samples and bowed guitars from... [Read the full story]
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Scouting For Girls are pleased to announce details of their UK Winter Tour. The British indie-pop sensations will kick off the tour in Bournemouth on the 1st November and conclude... [Read more]
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