FLEXY BOY   Many of dance music’s greatest forerunners are, let’s face it, more your skinny geeky-types. We think of lads happy to noodle ...

Venue: The Forum Note to self: Never try and write a concert review straight after the event. A series of superlatives and expletives does...

Venue: The Forum Date: 03/12/09 The B-52’s have remained largely unaffected by any changing music trends what-so-ever for over thirty yea...

FRIEND OF THE FREAKS My first experience of Les Claypool was at the very least timely, or rather not a moment too soon. Hungry for anythin...

A FIRE WITHIN    'Nu Metal' linchpins Linkin Park could've easily outstayed their welcome in terms of fickle music tastes. Yet ...

Venue: The Forum For Ladyhawke singer Pippa Brown at least, what has become the runaway success album of the last 12 months, was simply h...

CAPTAIN MARTIN'S REVENGE If you haven't caught The Armada live this year, then you're just not trying. Canadian native Jeff Ma...

THE WILD ONE There’s a mega-star, albeit one kept in check, inside Patrick Wolf. Even as he riffles through charity shop racks looking fo...

THIS BIRD HAS GROWN Angie Hart has always submitted to growing up before our eyes. Her songs from the very start always came from sharing r...