Teesside-based four-piece Jimmy & The Sounds deliver the kind of melody-laden post-punk labels like Domino have been falling over themselves for in recent years. Marrying the matter-of-fact North Easternness of Maximo Park, Field Music and The Futureheads with an enviable knack for writing chart-friendly pop hooks, the band look set to join The Chapman Family [...]
If you who haven’t read my feature on Newcastle-based art-punks Mansfield Holiday in this month’s Artrocker, what’s the matter with you? Get yourself down to WH Smith on Northumberland Street this weekend and get yourself a copy. It’s a cracking read. Here’s the interview in full:
Firstly, how are things going?
Things are going well at the [...]
Anti-folk hero Johnny Flynn has announced details of an intimate UK tour that includes a gig at The Cluny 2 on February 27. The full dates are:
FEBRUARY
10 LONDON – Barfly (solo show, HMV Next Big Thing Festival)
25 LIVERPOOL – Zanzibar
26 EDINBURGH – Cabaret Voltaire
27 NEWCASTLE – Cluny 2
28 OXFORD – The Bullingdon
MARCH
2 CARDIFF – Clwb [...]
A few weeks ago I interviewed Brilliant Mind frontman Calum Lynn for an article for BBC Tyne. Here’s our chat in full. You can read the finished article here.
Toonwaves: Firstly, how are things going?
Calum Lynn: Things are okay. I’m unsuccessfully looking for a job at the moment- turns out you even need a degree to [...]
Following their self-imposed hiatus, Sunderland-based indie outfit Field Music have stepped back into the limelight with a new tour and forthcoming third LP. Toonwaves caught up with David Brewis to find out what the band have been up to for the last couple of years.
Toonwaves: Firstly, how are things going?
David Brewis: Okay, thanks. We’re very [...]
Emerging from the remnants of defunct Chester-Le-Street indie-rockers Catweasels, Seamonster have arrived to a heady wave of expectation. Tipped for major success in their earlier incarnation by just about everyone who had a chance to see them live, big things are already being forecast for the talented young four-piece.
Firstly, how are things going?
Things are going [...]
Only two singles into their career, outspoken Teesside-based post-punks The Chapman Family have already courted controversy for their “not a cult” remarks, received death threats from a bunch of Scousers for naming themselves after John Lennon’s murderer (ironic when you think about it) and been the first unsigned band to play the NME Radar Tour. [...]
Delivering their fearsome brand of self-styled “charity shop cock-rock”, self-depracating Newcastle-based three-piece Pioneers Of Mediocrity blur the lines between country, blues, punk and rock to startling effect. Filling the gaps between Dylan, Cochran, Guthrie and Rotten, theirs is an explosive barrage of incendiary neo-psychobilly. Here’s what the boys had to say when Toonwaves caught up [...]
In little more than 18 months, Baddies‘ effortless fusion of razorsharp riffs and gut-wrenching basslines has catapulted them from Southend-On-Sea’s lowly live circuit to the top of the UK indie-punk pile. Recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in South Wales (where Oasis made (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?), debut album Do The Job is a [...]
Borne out of a chance meeting while performing as solo artists on the same bill at The Forth, Tyneside-based boy-girl combo Simpleswan specialise in beautifully understated acoustica that owes a hefty debt of gratitude to Erlend Oye’s Kings Of Convenience. Here’s what the duo had to say for themselves when Toonwaves caught up with them [...]
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