Strange scenes have been unfolding during this sleepy winter in Boomtown. A monstrous mechanical beast known as Arcadia has crash-landed and seized a whole area of the town! As an unprecedented festival exclusive the likes of which have only ever been seen at the UKs biggest festival Glastonbury; Boomtown will feature the one and...
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…but mainly Kings. Alvarez Kings, that is. We sent our hardest working pawn out to put Simon (guitar/vocals), & Paul Thompson (bass) and Richard Walker (drums) in check before they set off to tour deepest, darkest Europe. Words: Sam Briggs Photography: Justin Thompson Photography It’s been somewhat windy out. How’s everyone holding up? Simon: Just...
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The funk-fuelled hip-hop 5 piece come equipped with a name that’s kind of a play on words already, so we never bothered to come up with one for the header. We did, however, strap them down and feed them booze until they talked. Words: Andrew Almond Pics: Mickelmas Youngus Music, at the best...
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Critical acclaim for an innovative and unusual personality on the IDM scene is rare. Creating Techno/dub/deep house sounds live on stage, kitted out with a laptop, a Roland 909, synths, samplers and good old Ableton, Joseph Keevil, AKA Saytek (Live), has received plaudits from dance music luminaries such as Carl Cox (who called him...
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While most folk would ask Mark Nichols to comb his hair, put down his guitar and surfboard and find a real job, Toast shook his hand, sat down with a drink and bothered him with some vaguely interesting questions. As foretold by Sam Briggs How are you today? Keeping busy? Yeah, I’m really good....
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Toast smiled at all the right people and managed to bring you lovely folk an interview to stave off those January blues. Very early one morning, a shruggish Toast called up Orlando Weeks from The Maccabees and hurled questions at him, just before their gig at Leadmill. Here’s what he threw back. Penned by...
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The 1970s are regularly viewed as either the decade that fashion forgot or the most heavily mined for clobber. But, for Sheffield, it was one of the most confident and happening eras on record, says Neil Anderson. We might not have bothered the pop charts much (that didn’t happen until the 1980s) and...
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