Recorded highlights of 2008:
Let It Slip – The School [Elefant Records], Chavboy [now, The Boy — I think] – demos, Georgia Ruth Williams – home recordings, Glow – I, Yeah! [fablesofglow.com], Avan Rijs – demos, Frivolous Laura – demos, Solutions – Young Hearts, The Arteries – Keep on Truckin’, Mother of Six – Castle, Hot Puppies – Blue Hands [THP Records], The Hepburns – Trojan Hearse [Bendigedig Records], Mudmowth – Circus in the Cemetery 12″ [Associated Minds], Martin Carr – Ye Gods [& Little Fishes] + many, many more.
Live music highlights of 2008:
the Stilletoes @ Sŵn; Halflight & Glow @ Telfords Warehouse, Chester; the Hepburns @ Hard Rock Cafe, Cardiff
2008 was… a cavalcade of neon clowns stalking every street.
2009 will be… a funeral procession of major record labels & the year mainstream[ish] music gets political again. Someone out there is writing a ‘Shipbuilding’ for all those jobless bankers.
