The Coronas‘ new video for ‘Mark My Words’ is mostly filmed performance but is also interspersed with profiles of singer Danny O’Reilly and a woman who, through this song, is getting her comeuppance for all her lies. It’s got a strong emotional message, yet is some amazing pop if unlike me you’re in it for the overall sound and don’t analyse lyrics to death… Read Cheryl’s review of the band’s albu
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Video of the Moment #712: The Coronas
Live Gig Video: Teitur performs an acoustic version of ‘One and Only’ in Paris for Froggy’s Delight
While some of us gleefully refer to our French friends as “frogs”, I thought it was a nice comeback for a Web site to call themselves Froggy’s Delight. (Come on. Admit it, it’s an adorable name.) I’m not an expert in French but it looks like this is a pop culture site with a strong music section and just yesterday, Teitur from the Faroe Islands revealed this live video performance of ‘One and Only
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Quickfire Questions #26: Drummer Lee Vincent of Pulled Apart by Horses
Pulled Apart by Horses is in the middle of a UK tour but we were lucky enough to have their drummer Lee Vincent answer our Quickfire Questions. Wasn’t he nice? 1. What song is your earliest musical memory? Probably ‘The Race’ from Cozy Powell’s solo album ‘Tilt’. At the beginning there’s a sample from the start of a car race and then it kicks into this crazy instrumental piece of music. My dad use
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(Valentine’s Day Special!) Video of the Moment #711: Zulu Winter
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I’ve not sussed nor analysed all the lyrics yet to determine if this Zulu Winter tune ‘We Should Be Swimming’ is a true love song, but there’s no denying it’s beautiful in its lushness. The video is also a gorgeous sight to behold, with lakefront landscapes and women frolicking on the rocks while bound by strange stringy clothing, not unlike this previous Video of the Moment #217 released about ex
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(Valentine’s Day Special!) Single Review: King Charles – LoveBlood
Words by Tom Mughal Despite looking like a Victorian cad, there’s nothing old-fashioned about King Charles. His trendy calypso guitar lines are reminiscent of Vampire Weekend coupled with his Jack Sparrow-esque look makes for a charming style. A style that’s put to perfectly good use in the new single from his upcoming album, both titled ‘LoveBlood.’ A short song, only just going over 2 and a half
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(Valentine’s Day Special!) Interview: Mr. Scruff
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Editor’s note: Love can be found in a cup of…well, keep reading this interview Luke did with someone very special and you shall discover the answer… Andrew Carthy, aka Mr Scruff, first broke into the UK DJ scene in 1994 and has since become a favourite of clubbers around the world. With six studio albums under his belt and another slated for later this year, I caught up with Scruff for a quick cha
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Thirty One – Manchester Charity Compilation to Benefit CALM
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Last year I started writing for a magazine called CALMzine, the publication of CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), a nonprofit charity that was founded with support from trustee (and of course, someone who looms very large in the story of Manchester’s musical heritage) Tony Wilson in 2006. CALM’s initial intention and continuing campaign has been to help fight the high suicide rate of men un
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(Valentine’s Day Special!) MP3 of the Day #491: Reverend and the Makers
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Editor’s note: this is a song about the love of basslines. Sort of.Close enough for Valentine’s Day! ::smirk:: Here’s the new one from Reverend and the Makers, called ‘Bassline’, and you can grab it for free from the widget below in exchange for your email address. Fair trade, right? The band is currently riding high on being chosen by the man himself Noel Gallagher to support his High Flying Bird
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Video of the Moment #710: Toy Horses
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‘Whimsical’ is a word bandied about a little too much by bloggers, but I don’t know what other words fits for this new video for ‘Play What You Want’ (single out on the 12th of March) from Toy Horses. Uh…precious? I know. Adorable! The Stephen Fry Twitter endorsement is just icing on the cake, really. Well done! Catch the band on tour in March, shortly after their self-titled debut drops on 27 Feb
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Live Review: NME Awards Tour Featuring Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tribes and Azealia Banks at Newcastle Academy – 10th February 2012
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Although the NME Awards Tour’s main purpose is to publicise the NME Awards themselves, with which this tour climaxes on 29 February, it is also a showcase for acts which the NME considers worthy summarisers of the state of the nation’s contemporary music scene. Looking back over the years, the Tour has had more than its fair share of fertile years, roughly every five attempts having a really stand
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Album Review: Various artists – Kitsune Parisien II
It must be nice to live in Paris. If only for one thing, I have this idea in my head that you must never be far from the music influence of Kitsuné chief Gildas Loaëc. I really should send him a bill for all the incidentals surrounding my 2010 Delphic and Two Door Cinema Club gig chasing because after all, he’s the one who gave these bands the green light and now both bands are... Continue reading
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Video of the Moment #709: Coldplay
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From some friends in the business, I heard about the concept for Coldplay‘s video ‘Charlie Brown’ long before I’d actually sat down and watched the promo. In this video meant to feel like a mini-film, the undecidedly non-ravey piano rock band play in the middle of a group of their fans as coloured lights pour down on them, while young kids get involved in some decidedly unsavoury antics. Well, uns
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Video of the Moment #708: The Maccabees
The beauty of a slower – and a spiritual and supernatural – life is examined in the Maccabees‘ new video for ‘Feel to Follow’. Watch it below.
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Video of the Moment #707: Ok Go
Someone should just give Ok Go the Godlike Geniuses of Video award already. The latest example of their inventiveness in the visual musical form is their new one for ‘Needing/Getting’. I’m not even going to try to explain what’s happening in this video, it’d not do the band justice. Watch it below and prepare for the smile on your face. (Also, it sure beats Spector’s ‘Chevy Thunder’ out of the wat
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Single Review: Lostprophets – Bring ‘Em Down
You wouldn’t have thought it but Lostprophets have been together since 1997: that’s a whole 15 years! What’s even more remarkable is that they’re still loitering around the edges of mainstream success. Yes they’ve had big hits with ‘Last Train Home’ and ‘Rooftops’, but they’re still not headlining the O2. That said, 2012 could be the the year for the Pontypridd boyos. With their fifth studio album
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Sound of Guns / March and April 2012 UK/Irish Tour
Sound of Guns have announced their biggest tour to date, touring many venues in the UK and Ireland in support of their upcoming album ‘Angles and Enemies’ which is due to be released on the 5th of March. Tickets are on sale now. Tuesday 6th March 2012 – Newcastle Academy 2 Wednesday 7th March 2012 – Glasgow King Tuts Thursday 8th March 2012 – Inverness Ironworks Friday 9th March 2012 – Aberdeen Tu
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Live Gig Video: I Dream in Colour’s Richard Judge performs a cover of Oasis’ ‘(It’s Good) to Be Free’
Richard Judge, the frontman of I Dream in Colour and a previous celebrity guest reviewer for us here at TGTF, have revealed this solo cover of a lesser known track by Manchester Britpop masters Oasis. ‘(It’s Good) to Be Free appeared as one of three B-sides to the 1994 single ‘Whatever’. Watch the performance below that’s sure to raise some hairs on the back of your neck in awe.
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Interview: Liam Bailey
London soul singer Liam Bailey’s had a mixed few months. Co-writing and featuring in Chase and Status’ huge ‘Blind Faith’ brought him a whole new fanbase but his debut album release was delayed by over 6 months. We talk to him about this, the BBC Sound Of 2012 List and the future. Having been a dedicated artist for a while now, the album was meant to launch at the end of last year. What happened..
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MP3 of the Day (and more!) #490: Big Deal
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Big Deal‘s new video is for the song ‘Talk’, and the story plays on a metaphor for a broken relationship. (Well, that’s my best guess anyway. A guy comes back to the girl he hurt, because he knows she’s “safe” and can heal him.) It dawned on me that we never gave away a free track from the duo, ‘Chair’. (You can grab the mp3 here.) And since we’re big about giving here at TGTF,... Continue reading
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Various Cruelties / April 2012 UK Tour
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Various Cruelties are doing a UK tour as a follow up to their recent single release back in January this year, ‘Great Unknown’ (reviewed here). The tour dates are below. Tickets for the shows are priced at £8 (£10 in London) and are available now. Tuesday 17th April 2012 – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms Wednesday 18th April 2012- Nottingham Bodega Thursday 19th April 2012 – London ULU Friday 20th Apri
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