- Andrew Lockwood
Profile
Music: tastes: Very open to all and anything in the first instance although R & B, swing beat and over produced Mariah Carey influenced schmaltz don't tend to figure too highly in my listening.
Some of my favourites would be: Antony And The Johnsons, Arcade Fire, Babyshambles,Belle & Sebastian, Brighteyes,Bat For Lashes, Bauhaus, Devendra, Banhart, The Clash, The Cocteau Twins, The Duke Spirit, Echo & The Bunnymen,Elephants, Elbow, Fight Like Apes, Fun Lovin' Criminals, A Fine Frenzy,Julie Feeney, Ice T, Jesus & Mary Chain, Magazine, Maps, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, Orbital, The Orb, PJ Harvey, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Radiohead, Sinead O'Connor, Patti Smith, Sabres Of Paradise, Regina Spector, The Stranglers, The Strokes, David Sylvian,Television, Tori Amos, Rachel Unthank, Yeah Yeah Yeahs....to name but a few.
Interested in art, photography, architecture, poetry and films as well as music.
Reviews:
Girlyman - Supernova Album Review- 'Supernova' is the fifth studio album release from Atlanta based band Girlyman. It follows up their critically acclaimed 2009 album 'Everything's Easy' and features former Po Girl ...
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- Metronomy - The English Riviera Tour - 28/01/2011 - Live Review
- Nestling, as it does, like a rather quaint, but slightly dilapidated summer house in the corner of Royal Tunbridge Wells outer lying 'garden', The Forum, was a somewhat less than r...
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Regina Spektor - Live In London Album Review- Sent from Russia with love but very much living the all American dream Regina Spektor continues to utterly impress and enthral with her latest release, ‘Live in London’. Recorded a...
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The Xcerts - Scatterbrain Album Review- Failing to maintain a grin in the Granite City's cold winds and so relocating to the South Coast in the land of the pink pound initially proved a savvy move for this 'distorted pop...
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My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na Single Review- Arguably the world’s biggest Marmite Emo band, My Chemical Romance, are back after 4 years. Since delivering up the mightily successful concept album 'Welcome To The Black Parade' ...
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- Sophie Hunger - Your Personal Religion Single Review
- A multi-lingual multi-instrumentalist is never likely to be one dimensional. In fact, Swiss Londoner Sophie has little to suggest she is anything but interesting and intriguing bot...
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Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now Album Review- When you go to purchase a book there are now, more than ever, similarly bound titles aimed at attracting the same sort of reader. The cover art for a Marian Keyes, or Sophie Kinsel...
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Magic Kids - Memphis Album Review- If you live in a world of Big Wednesday's or Endless Summer's, own a station wagon with the obligatory surf boards atop the roof rack and have an 8-track compilation containing you...
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Tweak Bird - Tweak Bird Album Review- I don't think the Hairy Bikers have ever done a show highlighting the culinary delights of Illinois, nor have they any offspring to speak of in the former Colonies. However, it wou...
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Girlyman - Everything's Easy Album Review- 'Everything's Easy' is the fourth full-length album from Brooklyn born, Atlanta dwelling, trio Girylman. Comprising Nathan Borofsky, once labelled 'Folk Lord' in Boston Magazine's ...
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Glenn Meling - All You Can Do Single Review- Glenn Meling is a nomadic Norwegian part-time courier who has apparently never spent more than a year in one place! He has however studied Media in Melbourne, had a small flat in E...
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Regina Spektor - Eet Single Review- Regina Spektor, a Moscow born, New Yorker by way of Austria, Italy and even Tottenham! is somewhat of a musical anomaly to me. After relative success with her previous album 'Begin...
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Rodney Decroo - Mockingbird Bible Album Review- If you've been waiting for a National Enquirer style headline in the form of 'Bob Dylan's Love Child Discovered Living In Canada Shocker', well you may just wish to contact the pre...
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New Education - Arcane Single Review- "New Education are the best thing to ever come out of Stoke-On-Trent" says an avid fan on the NME website. Wow, that's not just bands that's everything! Before we get to the music ...
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Fighting Fiction - A Lesser Of Two Evils EP Review- 'A Lesser Of Two Evils' is the debut EP from Bristol based four-piece Fighting Fiction. I think it's safe to say that none of their tunes will be gracing a party political broadcas...
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- 30 Seconds to Mars - Kings & Queens Single Review
- 'Kings & Queens', the new single from Thirty Seconds To Mars, is their precursor, their teaser, their appetiser of choice for their forthcoming, eagerly awaited, new album 'This Is...
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Ted Hefko And The Thousandaires - Egyptland Album Review- Wondering from Wisconsin to New York, via a healthy stint in New Orleans, Ted Hefko, And The Thousandaires, bring you a Jazz infused, sometimes bluesy, sometimes folksy, mellow mus...
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Ben Cooley Hall - Owning Up To Life Album Review- If you have a troublesome gap in your CD collection because you've never been able to find that album 'about the invisible core of life', then fret no longer, the wait is finally o...
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Spectrum 7 - So Silent The Night Album Review- Seriously, would you name your group after a once ailing oil company whose one time CEO and Chairman was none other than George W Bush? Would you? Maybe that's the irony. Anyway if...
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Meleka - Go Single Review- 21 year old, North-West Londoner, Meleka was the winner of the 'prestigious' Hugo Urban Rules award back in September 2008. The competition, devised by Hugo fragrances, to find the...
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Rain Machine - Rain Machine Album Review- Hare Krishna meets Jimi Hendrix to perform like an electrified Devendra Banhart on acid, with occasional percussion accompaniment from MicaChu. Ok, so it's not all like that (Actua...
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Animal Kingdom - Signs And Wonders Single Review- Animal Kingdom, if you didn't already know, are a four piece from London who have been hotly tipped to do big things this year. Having previously been compared to Coldplay, Radiohe...
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Meretto - Street Talking Album Review- Amaretto / , ame'reteu/ n. a brown almond-flavoured liqueur produced in Italy, great for cocktails or coffees.Meretto, at best, a white rock-opera flavoured bitter shandy produced ...
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War Child - I Got Soul Single Review- If, like Mr Rowland, you've been searching, searching everywhere, for the Young Soul Rebels, but just couldn't find them anywhere, well, the wait is finally over 'cos they're here....
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William Gray - None Of The Above Album Review- If you like your sweet treats without variation or surprise this may not be for you. If however you are occasionally inclined to take the consequences of dipping your hand in a pac...
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