Silverbacks – Archive Material review

Around in one format or another since the middle of last decade, Dublin based quintet Silverbacks consist of brothers Daniel … More

100 Greatest Tracks of the 70’s #94 The Human League – Being Boiled

Released : 1978 In 1977 the city of Sheffield, as has already been established, felt itself estranged from the phenomenon … More

Yard Act – The Overload review

The last thing you want to be as an artist is owned by one of your songs. When Yard Act … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #98 Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag

Released: 1979 Cabaret Voltaire were from Sheffield, a place which had been a relative musical backwater (unless you count Joe … More

The Lounge Society – Silk For The Starving EP review

The Calder Valley lies in the shadow of the Pennines, the often bleak hill chain which divides much of the … More

Squid – Bright Green Field review

If you’re of the belief that not very much of anything makes sense any more, then the art of the … More

A Yard Act to follow

Everyone knows Graham. He’s the father-in-law who says women belong at home, the uncle who lies about how the back … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #30 Gang of Four – I Love A Man In A Uniform

Released: 1982 Retrospectively, this was such a halcyon period for British music that it almost at the time seemed to … More

Young Knives – Barbarians review

If, as one half of Young Knives Henry Dartnell has stated about Barbarians each of their albums usually has some … More

Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death review

“Don’t get stuck in the past” declares Grian Chatten during the title track of this, the Dublin based quintet’s second … More