Stalkers Interview.
Hailing from New York, Stalkers, are a Punk band just dripping with cool. The five piece, who are signed to One LIttle Indian in the UK, played two dates in the capital recently and were nice enough to answer some of the Cock’s questions. Click to read more …
Interpol, Ladytron/Sheffield Carling Academy/9.07.2008
Ahead of their headline slots at T in The Park and Latitude Interpol played two so called ‘warm up’ gigs in Sheffield and Manchester. I say “so called” as these shows are often littered with dodgy houselights, questionable sound quality and the odd glitch; three things the New York band’s Sheffield show was definitely free of. Click to read more …
My Bloody Valentine/Camden Roundhouse/20.06.08
It’s not often that a band whom you’ve not only idolised and adored for years but have also given up on having a chance of ever seeing live announce a generous handful of shows. It’s even less often that said band are responsible for some of the most colossal live shows in popular music history and just happen to book their first show back an mere hour away from where these very words are being typed. My Bloody Valentine at the Roundhouse always promised to be everything your average reunion isn’t, worthwhile, fairly priced and packaged together neatly into some of the countries most perfect venues. Click to read more …
Ten Kens- “Ten Kens” FatCat Records
Sometimes, very occasionally, you come across something pretty much by accident which turns out to be fantastic. You wonder what you did without it and you get scared at the thought that you might not have ever crossed paths with it. It basically never happens, but with the debut album from Ten Kens, it’s fucking happened.
The Twilight Sad and Broken Records/The Bodega Social/18.06.08
It took less than three months for Scottish indie shoegazers The Twilight Sad to grace Nottingham’s Bodega Social since their last tour and this time around they’ve brought fellow Scots, Broken Records, with them. The seven piece band take to The Bodega’s tiny stage with the greatest of ease carrying a variety of instruments with them making the audience eager and wide eyed before a note is even played. Between them the band make a grand, Arcade Fire like, sound which not only expands the tiny room they’ve found themselves in tonight but also justifies the large amount of industry hype currently bubbling beneath them. Click to read more …
White Denim @ Bodega Social 07/07/08
Tonight, The Bodega Social is brimming with genuine excitement and anticipation- providing the unusual sight of the venue being already packed for the first support band.
Late of The Pier- Fantasy Black Channel
After first triggering the hype mongers, the A and R men and a wide cross section of the press, not to mention an army of music lovers, into a frenzy almost two years ago, the highly anticipated debut from Late Of The Pier is (nearly) with us. As a band more than content to do things by their own watch, they’ve decided to put the album out now rather than jumping to premature attention when all the blogs were first going mental about them.
Lykke Li-Youth Novels-EMI Sweden
The female singer/songwriter label is one that has been struggling to keep its credibility above water for the past couple of years since a group of nice, young ladies decided to drag it arse end through the press. While this circus becomes ever more pathetic other, less headline grabbing, women have been devoting their unfried senses to not wasting their talent and churning out wonderful records from Laura Marling’s ‘Alas, I cannot swim‘ to Bojrk’s ‘Volta‘ and now ‘Youth Novels’ can be added to the list. Click to read more …
White Denim- Workout Holiday
White Denim hail from the deepest, hottest reaches of America- Austin, Texas- and create a sound which is as informed by their surroundings and heritage as Oasis were by Manchester.