Eliza and the Bear
This is my second time reviewing this band at the Bodega. Clearly I love dear Eliza. Date: December 5, 2016 Venue: Bodega No one in this band is called Eliza, […]
Bands/artists whose name begins with the letter E.
This is my second time reviewing this band at the Bodega. Clearly I love dear Eliza. Date: December 5, 2016 Venue: Bodega No one in this band is called Eliza, […]
Still going since the year I was born (whisper it, 1978), with Ian McCulloch as aloof and spiteful as ever, Echo and the Bunnymen shuffled into Nottingham and pretty much played […]
Earlier in the year, there was much hype about this lot. It hadn’t died down by the Autumn, either, as they impressed a sell-out crowd. Date: October 29, 2014 Venue: […]
I caught a glimpse of this band at the Y Not festival but wanted to see more of their bouncy indie-pop. Glad I did. Date: September 30, 2014 Venue: Bodega […]
Where have this lot been? The post-Britpop Yorkshiremen have been on a lengthy hiatus. Is their return a return to form or a desperate embrace of the music business’s leg? […]
I couldn’t pass up the chance to see the ex-main man of indie wallflowers Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci in such a small venue. I was expecting plaintive pianos. Instead, I got […]
I offered to go along to see Emilie after the original reviewer at the Nottingham Post pulled out. I’d done some research on her prior to the gig, but nothing […]
These pair are my ultimate guilty pleasure. As camp as Christmas, and more poppy than a Dutch field, but you can’t deny they have tunes. And Sherwood Forest reverberated with […]
Guy McKnight and his gothic cohorts never fail to entertain… Date: October 26, 2010 Venue: Rescue Rooms If you couldn’t see The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster you’d swear that the […]
Britain’s equivalent of New York’s misery merchants Interpol, they were, as expected, a forboding entity. Date: October 23, 2009 Venue: Rock City It’s not a criticism, but the ominous sense […]