“Does anybody remember the last time I was here?” asks Neil Hannon. One blunt audience member shouts “No!” Hannon replies: “It was in 1996 when we launched Casanova. 14 years ago!” A lot has happened to The Divine Comedy in the space of that time period. For starters, it is no longer a band; these [...]

Posted on May 23rd, 2010 by Max
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Foals have always seemed like the band that couldn’t really care about the mainstream no matter how hard publications like the NME tried to push them towards it. They’re a band who released a debut album (Antidotes) that didn’t have any of the two singles that got them fans in the first places (Hummer and [...]

Posted on May 17th, 2010 by Max
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This past week just gone by, The National headlined the Royal Albert Hall. That venue doesn’t have massive billboards advertising who is playing the venue each night but I can imagine that if they did you’d have hordes of people either going “…who?!” or “I know of them…but Royal Albert Hall?!” It seems the rise [...]

Posted on May 8th, 2010 by Max
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There are so many reasons as to why a Gorillaz concert could fail. There is the possibility that Jamie Hewlett’s visuals, as brilliant as they are, could overshadow the music and steal the limelight. There is the possibility that the band, as big as they are, can’t gel together and in the end give a [...]

Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Max
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Maybe it’s true that it can be a good thing when a band quits while they are ahead after all. Why bother ruining your previous back catalogue with shoddy follow-ups (if you really doubt me on this then look at the relatively meddling critical acclaim that the last two Supergrass albums got and you’ll see [...]

Posted on May 1st, 2010 by Max
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