Author: Andy Thorley

REVIEW: KRIS BARRAS – HALO EFFECT (2024)

Bon Jovi released a single last month. Let’s be honest, the thing was gash. It was awful. In 1986, when I was coming up for...

REVIEW: INDIA ELECTRIC CO.- POMEGRANATE (2024)

My late mother used to love Pomegranate. I could never see the point of them. They were all seeds, and she'd sit there eating...

TERRORVISION, THE HOT DAMN! SHE BURNS RED @ THE MAYORS FEST 2024, KK’S STEEL MILL, WOLVERHAMPTON 06/04/2024

She Burns Red proved they were an excellent proposition with last years "Out Of The Darkness" record - and the pick of its work...

REVIEW: KYLE KIMBRELL – EASY TRUTHS (2024)

Kyle Kimbrell’s sound has been described as "cosmic American music," that ranges from the swinging front-porch blues to the spaced-out Americana/alt-country, and it’s all...

REVIEW: BOB VYLAN – HUMBLE AS THE SUN (2024)

November 2021. And I’m in the Resorts World Arena. I’m there – and I’ve bought my ticket too- to watch The Offspring and the...

RELEASE WEEK ROUND UP: EP CORNER

ANIIMALIA - CAROUSEL I got pretty excited 18 months or so ago when I reviewed Aniimalia’s (and that second “I” is enough to confuse a...

REVIEW: FEEDER – BLACK/RED (2024)

I’m dreadful with surprises. I have to know. So I always look at the setlist before I go to a gig. I did it when Feeder...

REVIEW: MARCUS KING – MOOD SWINGS (2024)

I’ve reviewed a few Marcus King records over the years. In the summer of 2022 I did his last one and said: “This album...

REVIEW: SUSAN SANTOS – SONORA (2024)

I am a product of Thatcher’s disaster. This means that going to state school in the 80s makes me lucky to speak English, never...

REVIEW: THE LIBERTINES – ALL QUIET ON THE EASTERN ESPLANADE

Your humble scribe doesn’t have a lot in common with The Libertines, beyond being three and four years respectively older than Messrs Barat and...

REVIEW: CEDRIC BURNSIDE – HILL COUNTRY LOVE (2024)

GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Cedric Burnside is a prime example of why I hate genre labels. Or put another way, why I believe there are...

THE WANDERING HEARTS, PEARL CHARLES @ O2 INSTITUTE 3, BIRMINGHAM 31/03/2024

Pearl Charles - and I hope she takes this as the compliment it's meant as - looks like they've transported her here straight from...

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