Forgotten Voice

Forgotten VoiceForgotten Voice live Spanish Rock band “Forgotten Voice” promise high energy and emotionally charged songs, and it's a promise that the band deliver on. One of the nicest things about the band is that they are overwhelmingly positive, describing themselves as "a hard working and musically confident four-piece band that shots through with optimism everyday. Their songs capture the abandoned purpose and pure feelings of this crazy society." The bandMost of the bands songs deal with subjects like making the world a better place, hope and happiness. It’s refreshing to see a band being so positive and trying to improve the world...

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The Lovely Eggs

The Lovely EggsThe Lovely Eggs enjoying watermelon. The Lovely Eggs are a conundrum. By all rights I shouldn’t like The Lovely Eggs, the songs are strange and esoteric, the vocals are far from traditional and they all over have a punky garage band feel to them, but there in lies the mystery, because I fucking love The Lovely Eggs. If you don’t like the lovely eggs, then I hate to tell you, your inner child is dead. The Lovely Eggs started making their captivatingly strange music in 2006, and released their first album “If You Were Fruit” in 2009 along with 4 singles that received lots of air time and great reviews from revered radio DJs Huw...

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The Galleons

The GalleonsThe Galleons looking cold. Although only forming in 2010, Brighton band The Galleons have been enjoying much success with their laid-back, traditional, British folk, getting plenty of radio play and being booked at many festivals. The Galleons hail from all over the place: Bedford, London, Lincoln, The Isle of Wight and Latvia, giving them plenty of influences that permeate into their music.  The way the band describe their own music “traditional British folk music, sounds of the 60’s folk revival, modern merchants of gloom such as Low and Radiohead and the occasional Latvian farming song” gives but a taste of the vivid...

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ContaineR

ContaineRContainRI'm not very good at knowing what to say about electronic music or remixes, but what I do know is that I have taken quite a liking to Italian musicians ContainR. ContaineR officially started in 2007, but the journey taken for the two members, Alessio Magneta and Luca Sammartin, started seven years earlier in 2000. The pair started producing tunes separately, burning the tracks to CDs and giving them to each other for birthday gifts.  It wasn’t until many years later that the two of them finally worked together and produced the track "Nargo Sprout Goes Nuked". The 7 years that the two of them put in practicing before they...

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Iwan Rheon

Iwan RheonThis is probably how you picture him. Iwan Rheon, better known as the shy, invisible one from Channel 4’s Misfits, has released an E.P., and if you are thinking that he is just another actor trying to sing, then you are dead wrong. Although the E.P., called Tongue Tied,  is only 4 tracks long it shows incredible talent and versatility, with each song holding on to a slightly different feeling. Some songs have a funky, fun edge while others take on a darkly romantic slant. Tongue Tied shows more originality in 4 tracks than most bands can muster up on an album. Iwan being much more handsome. Tongue Tied really displays Iwan’s...

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PENGU!NS

PENGU!NS  The awesomely named PENGU!NS is the new band of the ex-drummer for The Who and Oasis, and son of Ringo Star, Zak Starkey.  Although the star appeal is in Zak, who provides the eccentric and dynamic instrumentals, the talent is in his girlfriend, Sharna Liguz aka “Sshh”. Sshh’s Punky vocals bring the tracks to life and she dominates the stage at live events. Tracks from the band are few and far-between as of yet, but here are the two I have managed to find. WARM UP With undertones of Blondy and all woman punk band L7, Warm Up brings early the 90’s back with a punk/grunge feel. Sshh's angry sound is complemented by...

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Slow Club - Paradise

Slow Club - Paradise slow club - paradise After the release of Slow Club’s first Album, ‘Yeah, So?’ the band were being hailed as the next White Stripes, and as it boasted the catchy 'It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful’ as its first single and held tracks like the beautiful ‘When I Go’ it’s not hard to see the comparison. Regrettably the second album, ‘Paradise’, does not live up to the hype. The first album worked because at the time not many people had been doing the same Rockabilly/Americana style that the band did so well. But recently with band like She and Him and Peggy Sue and The Pirates working the same angle the music seems...

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Noah And The Whale - Last Night On Earth

Noah and the Whale - Last Night On Earth Noah and the Whale suffered from what I like to call far-too-catchy-first-single-syndrome. When Five Years Time topped the charts in 2008, it was too far removed from the rest of the album. The cheesy hook from the single alienated the majority of the Folk/Pop crowd and semi-serious nature of the rest of the album didn’t satisfy the people who bought it off of the back of Five Years Time. The band’s first album, ‘Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down’ was both a commercial and economic success, but for their second album they completely changed their musical styles. The band dropped the childish...

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