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Calum
Join Date:
2011-04-15
Blogs Owned
Reviews of alternative/indie music
Other Tags: Indie, Alternative, Strokes, Album Reviews, Music Reviews
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- Carry On Rock - Xmas Special 2016on Dec 19, 2016 in 2016 alcohol alternative Blossoms christmas dares dating drinking Glastonbury Indie key 103 liverpool Manchester news radio rainhill Review Stockport tinder universityHERE WE GO! HERE IT IS! Carry On Rock's Xmas Special (Uncensored), available to listen now!In a one off special, join Max, Jed and Calum one more time for some Christmas festivities! In this xmas special, the boys look back at 2016 from an alter...
- Catfish and the Bottlemen - 'The Ride' Album ReviewCatfish and the Bottlemen’s rise from the seemingly never ending pub circuit to arena sell-out tours has not only been remarkable but quite simply unbelievable given the time frame in which they have achieved it. The band has worked tirelessly and...
- Blossoms - Debut Album Review Aug '16Blossoms’ self-titled debut album sounds like a well put together Spotify playlist for a long car journey rather than a debut indie record. As a five-piece, the lads from Stockport have an obvious knack for tunes.Named after a pub in their hometown...
- ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ – The Last Shadow Puppets Album Review – April 2016Can you believe that 8 years has passed since The Last Shadow Puppets (TLSP) released ‘The Age of The Understatement’!? Well you better had…because it has. Not much has changed in that time has it? Alex Turner has swapped Sheffield for LA, yout...
- Catfish And The Bottlemen - Their Breakthrough Yearon Sep 16, 2015So, the dust has now settled on what can be described, quite simply, as a mental summer for Catfish And The Bottlemen. Having played at every festival known to man, it only now seems a good idea to fully evaluate where the band are in terms of their...
- Catfish And The Bottlemen - Their breakthrough yearon Sep 15, 2015So, the dust has now settled on what can be described, quite simply, as a mental summer for Catfish And The Bottlemen. Having played at every festival known to man, it only now seems a good idea to fully evaluate where the band are in terms of their...
- Carry On Rock - Unsigned Music Podcastson Sep 7, 2015Alright everyone, here is a link to three unsigned music podcasts that I did over the summer. It features bands from around the north of England and was record in my own bedroom! Hope you enjoy them x ...
- Noel Gallagher - Chasing Yesterday album reviewon Jul 28, 2015Noel Gallagher – Chasing Yesterday4/10What should we expect from Noel Gallagher? Apparently too much. Put simply ‘Chasing Yesterday’ is a disappointment. There seems to be a changing in the tide and a widening gap between artists and the music...
- Kasabian 48:13 Album Review June 2014on Jun 11, 20145/10 Three years after their last album release, Kasabian are back with the highly anticipated fifth studio album "48:13". However, it is not what Kasabian and general music fans alike will have come to expect from the Leicester-born five piece. Mu...
- Bipolar Sunshine Live Review – EVAC Liverpool 2/11/2013on Nov 13, 2013Bipolar Sunshine – EVAC Liverpool 2/11/2013After rushing down to the EVAC from witnessing a disappointing loss for Liverpool at the hands of Arsenal, I was certainly in the mood to be cheered up. The beer prices weren’t going to do that so it was...
- Miles Kane - "Don't Forget Who You Are" Album Review 2013on Jun 21, 2013Miles Kane's second album ‘Don’t Forget Who You Are’ is a fast, hard-hitting, feel- good record with the longest of the 11 songs, ‘Darkness In Our Hearts’, being only three-and-a-half minutes long. The album almost mirrors the pace and...
- Have the Vaccines Come of Age?on Apr 24, 2013The Vaccines' second album 'Come Of Age’ can hardly be called 'one of the greats' or an album that will be remembered as a true work of art. However for a group of young musicians who are still essentially new and have been born into a rock revival...
- Black Hearted Deal - Northern Noiseon Apr 6, 2012...
- The Black Keys - El Camino Album Reviewon Feb 29, 2012Never heard of The Black Keys? Where have you been!? Their last album ‘Brothers’ got three Grammy awards and they sold over a million copies of the record worldwide. There is a theory that the blue-rockers from Ohio have just inh...
- Two Door Cinema Club - NME Awards Tour Manchester 2012on Feb 12, 2012Squashed into Academy One, I begin to understand what all the fuss is about with this band. I stand and watch a weird mixture of support bands before the Bangor boy's enter the stage. As part of the NME tour, I am forced to stand through three bands...