I'm a graphic designer.
I won't go into what I've designed and who for as I don't like to drop names.
I like most music but not much from the last 5 years as most music nowdays is utter shite. I stopped reading the NME about 15 years ago which kind of shows the sorry state of UK music. Good old, new and upandcoming bands - 80s matchbox, Interpol, Horrors, Luxury Stranger, Bowie, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Joy Division, CSS, PIL, The Chameleons...you get the jist, methinks.
POPPY AND THE JEZEBELS' REALITY RECORD SHOPS OF CHOICE ARE:
SWORDFISH RECORDS, BIRMINGHAM
POLAR BEAR RECORDS, KINGS HEATH
"Ok – we’re gonna write about the two independent shops that we grew up visiting in Birmingham, where we...
April Engram recommends the 'crushing dark dance music' of Seattle's Das Llamas
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When we first went down to London to play gigs, Artrocker nights were one of the alternatives to mainstream 'indie' fodder. Although we're now accepted to an extent by a bigger audience, I still feel like we play music that...
THE COVERGIRLS
Best new band in Glasgow, by a mile!
...Francis Bacon
Any more snooker cliches?
...Q65 “Revival”
Second track sounds like a more snarly mid-60s Who. Excellent.
...Q65 “Revival”
First one sounds like Sean Ryder having a flashback but second track is a killer.
...Only By The Night
once you've drunk a bottle of Maker's Mark in Copehagen?
...Francis Bacon
The more I watch it, the more I like it.
...Only By The Night
Sex on Fire is good once you've drunk a bottle of Maker's Mark in Copenhagen
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