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Concert Review by Mark Bayross LA2, London – December 1999 I’m afraid the doors opening at 6pm precipitated me missing the opening act Saints of Eden. When I did arrive, as Leechwoman were starting up, the LA2 was still pretty empty, so I shudder to think what kind of a four-blokes-and-a-dog audience Saints of Album Review by Mark Bayross After dance artists like Nightmares On Wax, Groove Armada, Zero 7 and Jamiroquai, it is now the turn of acoustic duo Turin Brakes to compile the next chapter of the LATE NIGHT TALES series, taking the blues as their central theme. From the shuffling opener of Swedish singer NICOLAI Concert Review by Mark Bayross LA2, London – 31 October 1999 Featuring: Man(i)kin, The Borg, Leech Woman, Chaos Engine, Inertia, Covenant, C-Tec Halloween. The spookiest of all nights. Perfect for a goth get-together, especially this year, what with this being Tony Blair Witch Millennium year, and all that. Such was the thinking behind tonight’s Album Review by Mark Bayross Born Dennis Leigh in Chorley, Lancashire, John Foxx is a man for whom the conventional never held much interest. An academic, as a musician, he is as much influenced by the visual arts as by music, and as a careerist pop star he is hopeless. Not only did he Music Review by Neil Sadler This forgettable song sounds like the Corrs. The mixes are worse, they sound like Stock Aitken and Waterman. Karen Louise has a decent enough voice and seems lovely and bubbly in her video, but this is a bland, over-produced concoction sung with little conviction. In an industry crowded with Album Review by Mark Bayross Lakuna is the new project from former Throwing Muses drummer David Narcizo. Like his former band, the music here is quirky, edgy and pretty original. The mood of the album could be described as “Sabres of Paradise unplugged” – it has that same dark, cinematic feel, but with a Album Review by Mark Bayross Following the last collaboration between keyboard maestro Jean-Phillippe Rykiel and Tibetan Lama Gyurme, THE LAMA’S CHANT – SONGS OF AWAKENING, here is another remarkable musical journey to a far away land. As one has come to expect from Peter Gabriel’s Real World stable, it has that mixture of modern Concert Review by Mark Bayross Cargo, London – 24 September 2001 It takes a lot to get me out on a dreary Autumnal Monday evening, especially when the venue lurks down a shabby alley in so-hip-it-hurts Shoreditch. Fortunately, the band playing tonight are Manchester-based electronica duo Lamb and this is an “intimate” live showcase Single Review by Mark Bayross The first single from lamb’s forthcoming third album WHAT SOUND is a thing of haunting beauty, as the simplest of love songs builds into a tour de force of soaring strings. When the rattling live percussion kicks in halfway through, the song shakes you from your reverie, and the Album Review by EDF It is amazing how a number of bands just seem to rehash sounds from the seventies and eighties. Lansing-Dreiden are no different. In fact, they sound uncannily similar to what Joy Division would have sounded like if Ian Curtis had lived long enough to release an album around 1983. Some |
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