http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main Gigs, reviews and news Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:58:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shameless Promotion return, wordlessly. Event details here http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2010/innocent-when-you-dream-mix/ Happy Christmas, y'all x http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2009/iyb172/ Better late than never. As Rage Against the Machine storm to christmas number 1 on the back of an endorsement from Sir Paul McCartney of Abbey Road, we are delighted to provide you with some occasionally sincere rambling on the subject of the passing decade. So big, it doesn't fit ... http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2009/in-your-bass-17-best-of-the-decade-part-one/ 1.Randy Newman - Harps and Angels 2.Jonathon Richman - Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love 3.Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - The Rising 4.Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather 5.Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland 6.Neil Young - Prairie Wind 7.Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man 8.Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart 9.Tom Waits ... http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2009/the-ten-best-records-of-the-decade/ If i had an unusually generous, 1-album-from-each-year-of-the-decade-style desert island discs selection these would be them. It's not nearly enough anyway, stupid programme.., 2000 - Kid A (Radiohead) it knocked my little socks off from the start, wrenched me out of nu-metal squalor and plunged me headfirst into a decade of exploring all ... http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2009/lists-schmists/ In case you didn't think we were pleased to be back, here's another podcast for you. Watch out, it's a live one. Includes in no order: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Future of the Left Boredoms Ponytail Sonik Youth Johnny Clarke Houdini [powerpress] It includes an advert for this advert: Remember to check the old 'uns here http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2009/we-just-cant-keep-away/ Turn off Cash in the Attic and put down your knitting: Gigs Reviews News is back with a bang. We had a bit of hassle from the man, something about paying bills and not going 3 gig over your space limit, but it's all rosy now. We're still smoothing over ... http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2009/were-back-baby/ Isn't it great when bands climb onto the stage from the crowd? I'm not sure why, but it's seriously cute. A Silver Mt Zion do it to make a point about the nature of artist and audience; I remember once seeing a friend of mine clambering out of the pit ... http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2008/frightened-rabbit-concrete-and-glass-2-october-2008-hoxton-square-bar-grill/ MARLOW: What's the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in the mouth? In the shape it makes in the page? E-L-B-O-W. -- Dennis Potter, The Singing Detective It all seemed so straightforward. I'd missed the Mercury award on Tuesday night, preferring to spend my time blinking ... http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2008/elbow/ Anyone who's ever been in a guitar shop will know all about the limited thrill of impressive musicianship. You're likely to find some roadie thrashing away while perched on an amp - or a nauseating prodigy fingering a three-quarter sized nylon strung instrument three times the value of your own. After ... http://gigsreviewsnews.com/main/2008/paul-curreri-devon-sproule-the-roundhouse-6-march-2008/