SCARLET REBELS – ‘SEE THROUGH BLUE’
DECEMBER ALBUM OF THE MONTH Perfect symmetry, the year closes at it began. In thinking about our final album review of the year, I’m drawn back to the first new music I heard in 2021. In the early days of January, Scarlet Rebels sent me a top-secret link, to listen to the new collection of […]
WAYWARD SONS – EVEN UP THE SCORE
NOVEMBER ALBUM OF THE MONTH Confidence. We all need it at this moment in time – and this is the autumn album release that brings it. Having been through a seismic time of suffering and loss, there is a time and place for music that captures the dark days but, in truth, as we re-emergence […]
FEATURE INTERVIEW: HAVR – WOMEN OF ROCK
From June 2021, one of the early feature interviews from our Women of Rock series. Here, Carrie from HAVR talks about a range of diversity, equality and inclusion issues we need to support in today’s rock scene.
THE AUTUMN KILLERS – ‘DARKSIDE’
OCTOBER ALBUM OF THE MONTH Something different for October. The last few months have seen a run of really fine albums released and, when things get busy, the releases that grab the headlines are often the ones backed by label muscle or big fan clubs. For this month, I’ve resolved to dig a bit deeper […]
FEATURE INTERVIEW: TWISTED ILLUSION
Part one of a two-part special with Matt on the story behind the band’s first album release of 2021. One of the hardest working bands during lockdown, creators of music that turned heads on the Friday rockshow over the last 18-months. In this interview clip, Matt talks about the launch of the album and what’s […]
SHORT INTERVIEW: UNKNOWN REFUGE – BEGINNINGS
A band that’s made a big impression with us in 2021. Rewinding here to the first interview during lockdown with Bolton’s new rising rock force. A playful sense of fun from the band, from a time when we all relied on Zoom to keep spirits up during lockdown.
FEATURE INTERVIEW: AMONGST LIARS – BEGINNINGS
Right back to the beginning, my first chat with Leo on the transition from Saint Apache to Amongst Liars. A lot of chat on where the name for the new band came from – and words too on the band’s debut single ‘Over and Over.’
SHORT INTERVIEW: HOSS THOMSON AT WILDFIRE FEST 2O21
My full and unedited interview clip with Hoss over late lunch on the final afternoon of Wildfire 2021. Just after the band’s set, we spoke about the return of Wildfire and live music after almost 18 months of social restrictions.
Badflower – ‘This is how the World Ends’
SEPTEMBER ALBUM OF THE MONTH The most urgently needed music of 2021, Badflower return with the defining album of 2021. No ‘difficult second album’ syndrome here; ‘OK I’m Sick’ disappears in the rear-view mirror as Badflower hold a mirror up the world with a new body of work that is poetic in its lyricism, cinematic […]
Wildfire – the lost tapes: 25 July 2021
In 2018 Wildfire Festival didn’t happen, but we had already done preview interviews with 20 or so bands, which ended up never airing. Three years on for Spirit of Wildfire 3 weekend, we dug out some of these interviews from the GMS archive for an airing, an interesting snapshot of bands at a moment in […]