Band review: Jonquil at Zodiac at The Oxford Academy, Saturday 11th October 2008
Our Oxfordshire-based gigging began on Saturday 11th October 2008 with a visit to Zodiac at The Oxford Academy. The first band of the night to take the stage at Oxford's Zodiac was The Great Eskimo Hoax: This band is an interesting three-piece combo who played catchy, hooky material with its roots spreading from what used to be called shoegaze. Every number in their set was well constructed, skilfully played and professionally backed by energetic drumming, cool guitar and an impressive range of keyboard skills. They sampled elements of their live performance and used those samples to build more complex musical layers as ...
Band review; inLight, The Bullingdon, Oxford, 22nd March 2009
How many times have you gone to see a band, or an artist – a band or an artist you’ve heard good studio tracks from – but when you get there, when you saw and heard them ‘live’, you were disappointed? Did you hear jerky vocals from both the up-front and the backing? Was there some dodgy timing from the drummer? Suspect bass notation? An over-ambitious lead guitar? And all finished off with an unmanaged sound system? And it’s the big names who suffer with dips in performance as well as the lesser known artists; I once drove 300Kms to see ELO ...
Band Review: The Razorbax, Bar Academy, Birmingham, Friday 15th August 2008
How do you like your indie? Fast, loud, energetic and full of love for the music? The most obvious thing to begin with is how good the Razorbax sound live. Some bands are predominantly studio acts who don’t quite achieve – on-stage – the high production levels they regularly get in a recording. The reverse is true for other bands - they are energised by the audience, able to squeeze a fraction more from themselves in their live performances than their studio work. The Razorbax cut right across these two categories. Their studio work – as we’ve heard a couple of times on This ...
Band review – Earth Calling Alice, Atticus, Birmingham, Sunday 17th August 2008
On Sunday evening we drove up to Birmingham to see Earth Calling Alice perform at Atticus in Bearwood. The gig was organised by an outfit called Acoustic Brew – more on them later! A quick word about the venue. Atticus is self-described as a café/bar. It’s a large, split-level room with a mix of kitchen-ish chairs at small tables, comfortable chairs beside low-slung coffee tables and various standing areas built around shelves to place your drinks/food on. Along one long side of the room is a serving bar. Atticus is on the ground floor, so one ‘wall’ is a floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall ...
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