Music 
Mountains of Hope(0)
Robin Perkins converses with the voice of Thee Silver Mt Zion, Efrim Menuck
I first discovered Efrim Menuck courtesy of John Peel. At the time he was a guitarist in the Canadian collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band whose legend has surpassed their reality. The eight-piece group were dubbed by the music press as “the [...]
Jesca Hoop – Nice ‘n’ Sleazy – 13/02/2010
Oisin Kealy
Support is important. Pillars, counsellors, bras — if all of these things suddenly disappeared there would be disastrous, and in some cases humourously puerile, consequences. Support bands, ideally, should warm up a crowd for the main act. A carbon copy is not what you want, but it is always good practice to attempt towards [...]
Solving the all girl paradox
Nick Biggs gets to grips with Brooklynite rockers Vivian Girl
Getting to the heart of a band, finding out what makes them tick, can be no easy feat. The challenge is made doubly hard when the artists in question appear to hold apparently paradoxical sides to themselves. Vivian Girls’ music is simple and yet complicated, raw [...]
Spoon – King Tut’s – 14/02/2010
Nick Biggs
February 14 will have been noted in most people’s diaries as Valentines Day. For those in the know, however, it was the night that Spoon played King Tut’s, a surprisingly small venue for such an indie heavyweight. With sixteen years of experience and seven consistently high quality studio albums to draw on, this promised [...]
