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From Wednesday 30 July 2014

Creeper – ‘Creeper’

Holy crap, this is great. Like some kind of three-chord dairy, the UK is churning out quality punk rock at the moment and the latest vat of melodic butter to roll off the production line comes courtesy of Southampton’s Creeper. The band themselves make a fair deal of their

Tuesday 22 July 2014

O Captain – ‘Ghetto Hikes’

Every now and again, an EP bursts fully-formed from your speakers and grabs your attention without hesitation or delay. There’s plenty of room in this world for ‘growers’ or works which you ‘need to live with for a bit’, and it’s this variety which prevents the world from stagnating

Wednesday 18 June 2014

Say Anything – ‘Hebrews’

There can be few artists in what I’m going to call the “upper-underground” punk rock scene who divide opinion as strongly as Max Bemis of Say Anything. Even among his own fans, debate rages as to the quality of just about everything the band have released since their 2004

Thursday 12 June 2014

Brendan Kelly/Sam Russo – Split the Tip

The theory behind split EPs is all well and good – two acts with potential crossover appeal to their respective fans appearing on the same release in order to milk that Venn diagram for all it’s worth – but too often they can serve to highlight the differences

Monday 02 December 2013

LIVE: Burn The Fleet @ Southampton Joiners [23/11/2013]

On 6 June 2009, Southampton’s legendary Joiners Arms held an all-day festival. The event was headlined by a new local band, Burn the Fleet, who despite having been in existence for about 12 months and with about five songs to their name played to a sold-out room – most