Author: Andy Thorley

REVIEW: KYLE KIMBRELL – EASY TRUTHS (2024)

Kyle Kimbrell’s sound has been described as "cosmic American music," that ranges from the swinging front-porch blues to the spaced-out Americana/alt-country, and it’s all...

REVIEW: BOB VYLAN – HUMBLE AS THE SUN (2024)

November 2021. And I’m in the Resorts World Arena. I’m there – and I’ve bought my ticket too- to watch The Offspring and the...

RELEASE WEEK ROUND UP: EP CORNER

ANIIMALIA - CAROUSEL I got pretty excited 18 months or so ago when I reviewed Aniimalia’s (and that second “I” is enough to confuse a...

REVIEW: FEEDER – BLACK/RED (2024)

I’m dreadful with surprises. I have to know. So I always look at the setlist before I go to a gig. I did it when Feeder...

REVIEW: MARCUS KING – MOOD SWINGS (2024)

I’ve reviewed a few Marcus King records over the years. In the summer of 2022 I did his last one and said: “This album...

REVIEW: SUSAN SANTOS – SONORA (2024)

I am a product of Thatcher’s disaster. This means that going to state school in the 80s makes me lucky to speak English, never...

REVIEW: THE LIBERTINES – ALL QUIET ON THE EASTERN ESPLANADE

Your humble scribe doesn’t have a lot in common with The Libertines, beyond being three and four years respectively older than Messrs Barat and...

REVIEW: CEDRIC BURNSIDE – HILL COUNTRY LOVE (2024)

GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Cedric Burnside is a prime example of why I hate genre labels. Or put another way, why I believe there are...

THE WANDERING HEARTS, PEARL CHARLES @ O2 INSTITUTE 3, BIRMINGHAM 31/03/2024

Pearl Charles - and I hope she takes this as the compliment it's meant as - looks like they've transported her here straight from...

2024 SO FAR – ONES WE MISSED: PART 3

tAKiDA - the agony flame (2024) There’s no point in bullshitting these things. Someone always knows more about whatever band it is than you....

SLASH (FEAT MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS) MAMMOTH WVH @ RESORTS WORLD ARENA, BIRMINGHAM 30/03/2024

It was, December 2022 when Mammoth WVH last stood on this stage. They were opening for Alter Bridge that evening, and in so doing...

2024 SO FAR – ONES WE MISSED: PART 2

RANDALL KING - INTO THE NEON (2024) "Mama always said you can't find love in a bar". That's the very first line on "Into The...

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