http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk Online Music News | Music Reviews | Music Photography | Music Magazine Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:22:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I will confess that I am a sucker for a song that sounds like what it is – I’m not sure what the term is, but it’s a similar thing to pathetic fallacy… actually, it probably has nothing to do that. So any song that is both a story lyrically ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/singles/184/ Glasgow alt rockers and friends of David Gest Attic Lights have been bloody busy this year. Not content with releasing their debut album and a slew of singles, they’ve also taken time to pen what sounds suspiciously like a Christmas song. But this is not it. Sorry to build up ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/singles/183/ Yeah, just catching up – look, I’ve been busy okay? – and I know with singles that it’s just a case of grabbing what you can as it flits past on its way to stardom or obscurity but… ah what the hell, here goes. If anything I am trying to ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/singles/182/ Always a brave move, calling your band a silent anything - not the first adjective you associate with music, unless you are thinking of John Cage – but I suspect the Oxfordian quartet of Robert Stevenson (vox, keys), Lewis Jones (guitar), Ali Hussain (bass) and Spencer Walker (drums) wish to ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/albums/181/ The cosy confines of this inner-city social club seemed, at first, an odd place for Fucked Up to host their travelling punk rock spectacle. However, it turned out to be the perfect venue. Vocalist Pink Eyes took full advantage of the low stage and the split-level lay-out, bounding into the ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/live/179/ Wakefield, home of the Cribs and the Research, is not the sort of place you’d expect to be a breeding ground of pop stardom… then again, where is? Stupid statement. It’s just that Shake Shudder hail from there and… well you have to say something, don’t you? Three song EPs, ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/demos/178/ To drag me away from the Brainwash festival it would take something pretty bloody spectacular. A trip to Nashville, courtesy of Jack Daniels, falls into that category. Hey, they might not be able to buy me, but I never said anything about them renting me for a while. I am ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/features/tour-blog/177/ With people crammed into every square inch of the Manchester Apollo, there was a palpable sense of occasion when the lights went down and the Bad Seeds casually stroll on stage, before the anticipated arrival of their brooding front man, Nick Cave. With his boot polished jet-black hair, droopy moustache and ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/live/176/ Right, this is no longer an isolated incident, a chance occurrence, a one bad apple spoiling the barrel... We, as a nation, are shit to touring bands. To some this news will be about as surprising as the recent item saying 'online computer games are addictive,' to others it will be a ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/features/editoriwaffle/175/ It’s hard to believe The Vines were thought of as highly as the bands who came to prominence around the same time; White Stripes and The Strokes in particular. Their Highly Evolved debut showed glimpses of promise but since, they’ve wholeheartedly failed to live up to that promise. Theirs ... http://www.thisisnottv.co.uk/reviews/albums/174/