The XX Birmingham 5/03/2010

After almost getting beaten up by an alcoholic homeless man on the bus, I was glad to finally get to this gig! Spirits were high, as one often finds at this time of year because it's nearly SPRING! It was nice to finally see The XX on a headline tour as opposed to a festival or a supporting tour, everyone around me was a true XX fan. This fact excited me greatly, it constrasts so much to Leeds Festival this year when I was standing there singing along wearing my free XX T shirt whilst everyone around me was like "Who the fuck are the XX?" Also for some reason when I saw them in Manchester supporting Florence and the Machine they didn't seem to go down too well generally, why this was, I do not understand! But last night at Birmingham Academy 2, was a sell out!

First up were a band called 'Glasser', they were rather like an American version of Fever Ray, but this didn't bother me, I love a good tribal rave! They were mysteriously dressed in white robes with hoods and did not speak the whole time! Nobody even knew their name until after the gig when people asked at the merchandise table! The irritating older gentleman behind me kept saying "I like the costumes, they remind me so much of Spinal Tap" this, of course is absolute bollocks! I think he was saying it to try and impress his date. Anyway, I enjoyed this band a lot, the female singer has a lovely voice!



Next were 'These New Puritans', another experimental band. I don't own the album but I was talking to some boys next to me and they were saying that they are much, much better live than on the record (which was released two years ago), and this seems to be true. They were very good live. Interesting, and for some reason, the singer freaks me out a bit, but I must admit they are a talented gang of people. Like 'Glasser' they did a lot of their performance on laptops but this didn't even decrease the value or quality of thier performance for me. They also had two drummers, one of them played 'the chains' too during their set, you wouldn't think that hitting chains with a drumstick would work so well! They write wonderful dark, experimental music, music that you can completely lose yourself in, intense music, my favourite kind of music.


Here's them at Scala, London, a couple of weeks ago:




And finally, it was time for The XX! I knew that people were even going to remain completely silent throughout their set or be singing along to every lyric, thankfully, it was the latter. As soon as 'Islands' kicked in I felt a rush of adoration, emotion and happiness and this carried on, I believe not only for me but for those around me, throughout the entire set. They pretty much just played the whole album but with 'Stars' as the encore and their cover of 'Teardrops' (originally by Womack and Womack) slotted in there too, which still went down well. This gig was one of those very special gigs where everyone walks away happy and singing the bands songs. The DJ played their version of 'You've got the Love' after their set and everyone hung around and sung and danced around gleefully. Basically this gig made me and everyone around me adore The XX even more than they already did and they made me realise that they are even more beautiful and special than I ever thought they were, despite having the album on repeat since the day it came out. It's nice to see that they have a strong cult following too, they deserve a lot of success, they have such epic and intense talent that deserves to be appreciated by many.


Katie x

The time when I interviewed Steven from Blood Red Shoes....in a shower

I am sat in a black and white tiled shower cubicle in Bar Academy, Birmingham with my friend, Amy and Steven Ansell for his first ever interview in a shower, the drummer and singer from the Brighton two-piece, Blood Red Shoes. Steven has a bottle of Sambucca under his arm and I have a can of cider that we managed to smuggle into the venue because the drinks in the Academy are such a rip-off! French/cockney band, Underground Railroad have just performed an excellent set which even involved some cello. Blood Red Shoes are on in half an hour, hence, the reason why Laura-Mary isn’t here with us because she’s getting ready. Although, she did peek her head around the door at one point and say hello with a slightly confused look on her face. Here’s what happened during our chat on the day that I discovered that cider mixed with Sambucca actually tastes rather nice.

Katie: So, why the name 'Blood Red Shoes'?

Steven: Well, when we started, we weren’t trying to start a band; Laura just emailed me and said “shall we have a jam?” So we got together and wrote some songs, a guy heard it and asked us whether we wanted to play a show but we were really fucked, we didn’t really know what the fuck we were doing but we said “Yeah, we’ll play” but we didn’t have a name because we’d just had one jam. As we were trying to think of a name we were hanging out with one of our friends and he had this book called ‘Hollywood Babylon’ and in it was a story about Ginger Rogers and in that story, Fred Astaire makes Ginger Rogers keep re-doing a tap scene until eventually he’s like “Cuuuuuuuuuuut” “Why have you changed your shoes?” and she was like “I haven’t” but her shoes are red, she was wearing white shoes but now her shoes are red because he’s re-made her do the scene so many times that her feet have bled, she’s been tap dancing so much. We thought that this sounded really fucked up so we were like “let’s call our band that.”

Katie: Who and what are your main influences?

Steven: A lot of stuff because when you’re a musician everything that you listen to goes to your brain, Laura’s an artist as well so for her even more things go in, and so a lot of things go into our music. “Also, us getting frustrated about having shit jobs before we were in the band full time is also as much as an influence because it gave us that force to really do it.”

Katie: yeah, I know what you mean; I fell asleep at work the other day, it was that boring.

Steven: Yeah, it was just things like that, being fed up with your life and being fed up of the structure of somebody always telling you what to do. And there were musical influences such as Queens of the Stone Age, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, The Pixies and a band called ‘Q and Not U’, like nobody has ever listened to this band, they broke up a few years ago, they were the best band that we’ve ever heard, they were an American band and they were so good.

Katie: Yeah, I hate it when that happens, have you heard of The Delgados? They were really great but they split up

Steven: Ah yeah, I used to like The Delgados actually.

Katie: Are there any new bands about at the moment that you really like?

Steven: Yeah, I really like ‘Pulled apart by Horses’

Katie: Ah yeah, they’re good, you love them don’t you Amy?

Amy: Yessss!

Steven: I really like the band that supported us too, Underground Railroad, but they’re not that new, they’re on their third record but they’re still new to me, Laura found them and we were like “yeah, let’s take them on tour with us” and there’s a band from Brighton called ‘Peggy Sue’

Katie: Ah, yeah, I love Peggy Sue! They supported you when I saw you two years ago in Stoke!

Steven: Yeah, and I produced a couple of tracks on their album so I have a deep interest in the band but they’re just about making really diverse records.

Katie: Is Brighton really that boring because Stoke’s shit isn’t it? I imagine Brighton to be a lot better than Stoke!

Steven: It’s not that boring, but it was quite frustrating at the time. Brighton’s very small and you get bored of it because you can get bored of almost anywhere. “You could get bored when you have the most exciting life in the world, anything gets boring if it just keeps repeating itself, Brighton isn’t actually that boring, it’s just that we got to the point where we just felt a bit caged in, especially at the time that we wrote ‘Boring by the Sea’, which is the reason why you’ve asked this question.” It’s because at that time we started out on this really DIY punk scene and it was all about being like super underground all of the time and then we wrote these pop songs and we were always really happy that they were punk and fucked up but also catchy and people really hated us for that, it was kind like that reaction against the fact that we wrote this song and it was really disco, you could really dance to it and it was a bit of a hit.

Katie: Yeah and then there was that amazing remix of it as well that was even more danceable and popular!

Steven: Yeah and we were like this is a really amazing ‘fuck you!’ to all of the people that were like “you’re too pop, you don’t deserve our respect.” It’s so boring! It’s so boring! “Just because a song has a chorus doesn’t mean that the band is a ‘sell-out’ band. It doesn’t mean that it’s ‘not cool’ or ‘not underground enough.’ It just means that people like it for fucks sake!”

Katie: If you had to categorise your music into one genre what would it be?
Steven: Just rock. That’s it.

Katie: Which country do you most prefer to play gigs in?

Steven: Right now? This changes because each tour something else surprises you.

Katie: You play quite a bit in Japan don’t you?

Steven: Yeah Japan is really good. I think my favourites recently were either Belgium or Holland. We’re playing at a festival called ‘Lowlands’ and they did a launch night which was what we played at the other day and everyone who goes to the launch night gets a ticket, you can’t get them any other way.

Katie: How does Fire Like This compare to Box of Secrets? Would you say that you’ve progressed or changed or anything with this album?

Steven: I think it’s just natural evolution really, we didn’t change anything, and there are still just guitars, drums and singing. I think that for us it was about getting better at what we were doing. I see Box of Secrets was a starting point, I see Fire Like This as us figuring out our thing and I think the next record is gonna get much weirder than that because I think that we learnt a lot of stuff whilst making this album. The weirder moments that are found on this record will be a lot weirder on the next but I don’t see it as a change, just a progression. We write better songs I think, like, they don’t go on as long because we’ve figure out that every song doesn’t have to be really fast all of the time because this just gets really boring. I think it’s a slightly sadder record than the first one; the first one was a bit more optimistic. “I think that Fire Like This is more ‘us’, with the first record we were just kind of finding our feet, this record is more the real me and Laura-Mary and expressing more of who we really are than on the first album.”

Amy: At least you have turned to electro-pop like most other bands have.

Steven: You know what, we’d never do that! I mean we like to dance and stuff but no we’d never do that. If people said that to us “so, change your style”, we’d be like “what, really?” It’s like the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s made a dance/electro record and I’m like “yeah, that’s shit”. I would much rather listen to Date with the Night than I would their new shit record, its rubbish! Why would you change your sound? “People would think that it’s a bad thing that we haven’t completely changed our sound but we don’t fucking want to change our sound.” There are two things in a record, there are the lyrics to the songs and the way that you record them and just because you recorded it differently, doesn’t mean that it sounds any better so the way it seems to me is that if you write the same sentence in a different colour ink , one in red, one in blue, one in green and one in black, have you said anything different? No, you haven’t, you’ve just written it in red so that you trick people into thinking that it looks different when they first say it but when you really pay attention, you realise that you’ve just written the same sentence, that’s why if you write the same song but record it with a keyboard, it’s basically the same shit, you’ve just tricked people into thinking that it’s different. “We just thought “right, let’s write better songs”, you should make the way that you sing it more powerful by trying to really sing it like you mean it and don’t fucking worry about being electro or whatever by changing your sound because for me that’s a short term way into tricking people into thinking that it’s exciting.” I also just don’t really like keyboard that much. I love the sound of a loud, distorted guitar.

Katie: After the tour is finished, what’s next for Blood Red Shoes? Do you plan on playing any festivals?

Steven: We finish this tour and then in May we actually have a load of shows that we haven’t officially announced yet and then we’re doing all of those festivals like ‘The Great Escape’, ‘Dot-to-Dot’ and ‘Liverpool Sound City’ and I think that we’re playing a show in Moscow with The Horrors apparently and then in between the shows in May we’re gonna try and write some new stuff and try and release a new EP after the summer.

Steven: The album was released yesterday so tonight we are celebrating; this is why I have this bottle of Sambucca.







Katie Wilkinson

Marina and the Diamonds- The Family Jewels & Ellie Goulding- Light

I have been anticipating this album for over 2 years now, I knew that when it finally arrived, it would be something pretty special and I believe that it has reached these expectations. You may be thinking, "oh no, not another female solo artists, this whole 'females taking over thing' is getting boring now." But let me assure you, this one's a special one. Not only do her songs clearly come from the heart but Marina Diamandis is a woman that's not fearful to speak her mind. Her songs are littered with her opinions on certain modern social issues and happenings as well as personal experiences. From the flamboyant vocal utterances to the electric violins, this album is shiny pop perfection that speaks for itself. I'm glad that Marina has put some polished up versions of some of her oldest songs such as 'Hermit the Frog' on as well as her new songs, for example 'Guilty', a song which shows her more vulnerable streak. Despite its nostalgic 70s/80s pop tint, this album is certainly an individual one, full of inspiring honesty, passion and intriguing individuality.
9/10





Now, this one's an interesting one and completely different to Marina's. Although I know that Ellie obviously started out by just writing acoustically with just her and her guitar, I expected it to contain an equal split of both up tempo songs with contagious beats and more mellow, down tempo songs, yet, it did not. It's a lot more relaxed than I expected it to be, beautifully so of course, I would not expect any less from the combined effort of Miss Goulding and Producer Starsmith. The fastest, more dancable songs are most certainly the two singles that have been released from it so far that have helped Goulding properly break into the more commercial music scene. The piano compliments the acoustic guitar well and it all works magically in terms of the musical side of things and Ellie's heart meltingly fragile lyrics slot into this well. I like the fact that Ellie, like Marina, means every word that she sings, when the lyrics of a song are evidently meaningful to the person singing them, the song is a lot more beautiful.
8.5/10


If you do one good thing this weekend, make sure that it's buying at least one of these albums, legally, these albums deserve all the credit that they can get.

Katie x

What will you be listening to this spring/summer?

Spring is on its way, well I say that, yet, there is still snow outside, which means that a musical change is on it's way. I listen to completley different music in summer than I do to winter, do you?

Here's what I shall be listening to during the warmer weather, when the sun is actually out:

1. Vampire Weekend: They've recently released their second album 'Contra' and it's brilliant! Their next single is 'Giving up the gun', my personal favourite from the album. Contra is filled with exotic beats and riffs that will keep you happy all day.

2. The Drums- having recently finished touring on the NME Tour, they'll surely release their debut at some point this summer I'd imagine and I'm pretty sure that they'll be playing lots of summer festivals as well their upcoming UK tour with Florence and the Machine

3. Babeshadow- this band also will be supporting Florence on her UK tour this summer as they've just signed up to her manager, Mairead Nash's, new label, Luv Luv Luv records. I find it fascinating that they are english as their music is so relaxed and uplifting, it makes me wonder where the influences to their music came from. The lyrics "It's love, love, love, now it's only love" (from their song 'Sea Serpents') fit in nicely with Luv management and given Nash's previous success with Florence, this band should go pretty far. Listen to their music on hypemachine

4.LCD Soundsystem- Their back, they've kept relatively quiet about their new stuff but they're heading on tour in March so I'm sure they'll be showcasing their new material there! They're also booked for lots of UK festivals, including Bestival, they're definately not a band you should miss this year as I would think that their gigs are pretty much a party. Their album's expected in March.

5.Lightspeed Champion- Dev Hynes is back with his new album 'Life is Sweet Nice to Meet you' which came out last week, I can't afford to buy it so I'm getting it for my birthday next month, hopefully on vinyl as I'm getting a new vinyl player :) Apparenly, this album is more experimental as the last and I'm very much looking forward to hearing it! He's just announced a tour of small venues- so get in there quick! I really want to go but I'm trying to save up, the train to Birmingham costs me £6!

6.MGMT- Congratulations- Their new album is expected for release on the 13th March, that's not far off! I'm quite anxious about this album as they've changed their physical imagine to a more toned down, indie rock look, will their music follow suit? I hope not! We'll see! Oracular Spectacular (2008) is a summer album that's pretty hard to beat!

7.Arcade fire- I've heard their new album is coming out this spring/summer, I've not heard much else about it though! I hope it comes soon, they're so musically and lyrically talented, how can it not be good? And I hope they play some festivals! Especially Reading, as I shall be going!




Katie x

Recent Happenings..

THE NME TOUR AND THE BRITS

On the 11th Feburary I headed to Birmingham for The NME Tour, the line-up featured American band-The Drums, Art rockers- The Big Pink, heartfelt indie boys- Bombay Bicycle Club and the Brighton lads- The Maccabees headlined. There's no doubt about it, the line-up was brilliant, it had to be given last years epic line-up of Florence, White Lies, Friendly Fires and Glasvegas!

Just as I'd got into the venue and qued up for a pint of water (I'm not 18 for another month!), The Drums took to the stage. They were a band that I was looking forward to seeing as they will supporting Florence and the Machine on her tour in May, so I wanted to check them out before hand! With the crowd already familiar on the whole with their singles (thanks to radio1)- Let's go Surfing and I Feel Stupid, those 2 songs went down a storm with the young indie fans. The crowd seemed a bit unsure about The Drums at first but gradually warmed up to them. By the end of the set, the majority of the crowd loved them! Including me, there were definately moments where I felt like I was dancing at some sort of quite tame, yet, harmonious beach party. I'm very much looking forward to seeing them in May now!

Next up were The Big Pink. This band apparently did not go down too well on the other dates of the tour, which is probably due to the difference in genre, indie fans can be stubborn and rude when they want to be! I, however, love them and I loved their performance. The crowd did at least make the effort to pretend that they were enjoying their set but then after they'd finished, some people behind me were like "God, they were so shit." Perhaps it's not cool, for some reason, to like The Big Pink... I thought they performed really well and was enraptured in their insensity, their clearly a very passionate band.

Bombay Bicycle Club came on and the crowd went wild! Their a band that have visited Birmingham quite a few times and I think a lot of their fans that surrounded me had seen them a couple of times before. I, however, had not due to lack of money, it cost me £6 to get to B'ham from Stafford (which is still about 12 miles from my house). The boys gave a lovely performance, I love it how through all of the distorted guitars lies a beautiful and delicate lyrics.

Here's a video of Magnet, I apologise for the quality of the video!





And finally, The Maccabees headlined. They were clearly the band that most people were the most excited about seeing. It is impossible not to love the Maccabees, because not only is their music good but they are such a humble band. They're a very well loved band but they have never left this go to their heads, they came on smiling at their wonderful applause that they got. They laughed whilst carrying on with their set when nearly the entire crowd fell over because they got a bit over excited and they thanked everyone at the end. And above all, they came on and performed very well, they even did a wonderful encore with a brass section! Boys stared in admiration and girls swooned, everyone there loved the Maccabees, fact.


Wall of Arms:







The BRITS

Every year I get ridiculously excited for this ceremony and this year was no exception. I took the night off work, made sure that I was in front of a widescreen TV for 8pm and sat with a large bottle of posh, organic cider for The BRITS to start. Lily Allen's outfit and performance was first and recieved a slating on twitter, however, I loved it! I hope that it was her last performace before her 'break' though, I'm praying that she'll play some festivals this summer! I ahve never been lucky enough to see her in the flesh! Anyway, I'll talk more about the performances in a bit, here's the winners list:

WINNERS BELOW
British Female Solo Artist

Bat for Lashes

Florence & the Machine

Leona Lewis

WINNER: Lily Allen

Pixie Lott


I was so glad that Lily finally got a BRIT award, well deserved!



British Male Solo Artist

Calvin Harris

WINNER: Dizzee Rascal

Mika

Paolo Nutini

Robbie Williams

I'd have quite liked to see Paolo win this one because I really like 'Sunny Side Up' and her seems lovely, but oh well, Dizzie is a hit machine!


British Breakthrough Act

Florence & the Machine

Friendly Fires

WINNER: JLS

La Roux

Pixie Lott

I was not impressed, I'd have loved anyone to win this one apart from Pixie Lott of JLS, it would have been nice for Friendly fires to maybe win it as they've never won anything and they're a great band!


British Group

Doves

Friendly Fires

JLS

WINNER: Kasabian

Muse

I wasn't too fussed about this one as I knew that poor Friendly Fires did not stand a chance up against JLS, Muse and Kasabian!



MasterCard British Album

Dizzee Rascal - Tongue n’Cheek

WINNER: Florence & the Machine - Lungs

Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Lily Allen - It’s Not Me, It’s You

Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up


I was very, very happy about this one!! If Florence was only going to win 1, I wanted it to be for Lungs and it was!

British Single

Alesha Dixon - Breathe Slow

Alexandra Burke Ft Flo Rida - Bad Boys

Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love

Joe McElderry - The Climb

WINNER: JLS - Beat Again

La Roux - In For The Kill

Lily Allen - The Fear

Pixie Lott - Mama Do

Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart

Tinchy Stryder Ft N-Dubz - Number 1

An absolute joke, The Fear Should have won!

Critics' Choice

Ellie Goulding WINNER

Delphic

Marina and the Diamonds

I'm very happy for Ellie becuase she's great and seems very, very sweet. However, I've been a Marina fan for over 2 years now, so I'd have loved to see her win it, I'm a little biased!


BRITs Album of 30 Years

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

Dido - No Angel

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

Duffy - Rockferry

Keane - Hopes & Fears

WINNER: Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

Phil Collins - No Jacket Required

Sade - Diamond Life

The Verve - Urban Hymns

Travis - The Man Who


I didn't really care who won this one really as I don't think any of them really deserved to win! I hate Liam Gallager though, cannot believe he threw his award into the crowd, twat!

The BRITs Hits 30

Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive/How Deep is Your Love

Bros. - I Owe you Nothing

Coldplay - Clocks

Eurythmics & Stevie Wonder - Angel

Girls Aloud - The Promise

Kanye West - Gold Digger

Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out of my Head

Michael Jackson - Earth Song

Paul McCartney - Live & Let Die

Pet Shop Boys - Go West

Robbie Williams & Tom Jones - The Full Monty Medley

Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama

WINNER: Spice Girls - Wannabe/Who Do You Think You Are

Take That - Beatles Medley

The Who - Who Are You

I was a 90's child, so I don't really mind that The Spice girls won!


International Female Solo Artist

WINNER: Lady Gaga

Ladyhawke

Norah Jones

Rihanna

Shakira

Welll deserved, I love Gaga


International Male Solo Artist

Bruce Springsteen

Eminem

WNNER: Jay-Z

Michael Buble

Seasick Steve


I'm glad that Jay-Z won, he seems very lovely and he's good at what he does!

International Album

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Black Eyed Peas - The End

Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream

Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3

WINNER: Lady Gaga - The Fame

The Fame is great, well deserved! It would have been great to see Empire of the Sun or Animal Collective win it though but that would never, ever happen!


International Breakthrough Act Supported By MTV Viewers

Animal Collective

Daniel Merriweather

Empire of the Sun

WINNER: Lady Gaga

Taylor Swift



Fair enough, I'm glad Swifty didn't win, her sickly sweetness is irritating!

Outstanding Contribution Award

Robbie Williams

What contribution? Pub singer, much? He's from Stoke too :/


Anyway, what did everyone think of You've Got the Dirtee Love? I thought that it was quite good, maybe could have been a little bit more amazing, but just a bit. I don't really know what to make of these television performance because I think I'm a bit of a tradionalist when it comes to Florence performances, I like it when she's drunk and crowd surfs and climbs up lighting riggs and jumps into swimming pools!
As for Gaga, I loved what she did with her songs telephone and Dance in the Dark, especially as it was in tribute to her friend, the brillaint designer Alexander Mcqueen, it was all very beautiful. She seemed very happy to win all of awards too because she says that she is one of those people that has in the past generally not very successful, I can relate to this entirely.

Here's Gaga's performance:



That's all for now, I might be interview The Drums sometime soon, I'll let you know if I do

Katie

Corinne Bailey Rae- The Sea

This is an album of beauty, pain, heart-ache, hope and grief. Her voice is flawless and her song writing skills have been further honed during the making of this album into perfection. The Sea is a very personal album, at times in fact it even seems too personal, like you shouldn't be listening. Some people might find it uncomfortable or depressing, but I see it as a beautiful thing. I love the intensity of this album and find it a real gateway into Corinne's experiences and emotions of the past 2 years after the death of her husband, Jason Rae. Even the name 'The Sea' is perfect for this album as it portrays a wide range of Corinne's feelings, views and experiences.

This album welds together acoustic, jazz and soul which gives it a wonderful, yet still relatively simple sound. Had this album been overproduced, it would not have had half of the impact that it does.

The stand out tracks are: Are you Here, Feels Like the First Time, The Blackest Lily, Paris Nights/New York Mornings and The Sea
However, I'd recommend getting the whole album because I'm a strong believer that some albums should stand alone as an album, rather than individual songs and this is one of those albums.

Corinne gets a 10/10 for this glorious offering.

Katie x
ps. NME Tour on Thursday, I'll write it up :)

Wow, it's been nearly a month, I'm sorry!

I had exams!
hmm, here's what I'm liking at the moment: The new Blood Red Shoes single, Light it Up, which will be released on the 22nd Feb!



I also love a band called Beach House, here's there song 'Zebra', it's a beautiful! They are from Baltimore in Maryland :)



This weekend I went up to a gig at one of my favourite venues, The Box, in Crewe and I saw a band called Violet Violet. The hail from Norwich and are friends with Kids Love Lies and The Kabeedies, who I have also mentioned before. I've never really understood why they never seem to get much recognition, they're brilliant. They're a fierce female two piece with lots energy. Here's their myspace page Their album, This City is Full of Beasts is out now!

I'm also really liking a new American band called 'Yeasayer', I'm sure you will have heard of them if you tune in to Zane Lowe, Nick Grimshaw or Huw Stephens on Radio1, Their album is out this week, I really want it! They write beautiful pop that uses all kinds of wierd synth sounds...
Here's their single Ambling Alp:



Also out this week- Hollywood by Marina and the Diamonds (download it for just 49p here)

Albums: Romance is Boring by Los Campesinos!- It's brilliant

Recent albums: Alcoyte by Delphic- I really, really want it, I already have a few track off it though, great stuff, their music is very close to perfection for me! Fly Yellow Moon by Fyfe Dangerfield ( I've spotified it, heart warming stuff from the former Guillemots frontman) & Contra by Vampire Weekend- I have it, it's great, it transports you to a sunny place!


I'll try and write sooner next time!

Katie x