It’s so sad they split, they were so much fun. But we have this, and in time they’ll be seen as a special band, no doubt about that.
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Super Adventure Club – Straight from the Dick
Katadreuffe – Malconfort
You may laugh when I suggest that it’s a poppy record but I really think it is; you can get into this and dance to it, it’s Iron Maiden, served up for Kafka fans.
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Glide – Assemblage One and Two
Deutschland, Deutsche –California, and now, Deutsche-Ormskirk. And nowt wrong with that!
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The Leg – Oozing A Crepuscular Light
What does mark the album out is a demented energy, it often feels like a twisted soundtrack to an old black and white slapstick short.
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Goodbye cruel world
Leaping off very high structures seems the only sensible course of action for JLS fans, although, as Stephen Watt found out, it’s less enjoyable when it involves a relative.
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Fear and Loving in Heaton Park – Home is the Hero
In a city where takeaways are the front line in a turf war, our epicurean chronicler is forced to seek sustenance in an unforgivable place.
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Gary Numan Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind)
Dark thought this record is, it’s not depressing, and it doesn’t bring you down. Cathartic maybe, listenable definitely. Loveable? Very probably.
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Le Guess Who? Utrecht, Sunday, 1/12/13
Rather Copeland reminds me of one of those outsider artists like Ferdinand Cheval or Henry Darger, people who mindmap and create huge, mystifyinig edifices of work; stuffed full of weird curlicues and cul de sacs.
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Le Guess Who? Utrecht, Saturday, 30/11/13
Haines has this very expressive way of playing keys too; he hammers through the notes, pressing the keys like he’s battering through some Mozart concerto, using his playing to signal changes of mood and pace.
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Le Mini Who? Utrecht, Saturday, 30/11/13
So imagine me drawing a shiny sun and a green field getting ploughed up by a bloody great big tank with “heavy metal groove” written on the side. Katadreuffe were that good. Savvy?
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