Weight?! Why does it even matter?

We see it each and every day, the same recycled tattle. We see it typed, tweeted, printed and published the same subject each time masked in different circumstance. Fashion, health, film, music...it is literally everywhere hovering over us like a huge dark cloud ready to surge a sense of self loathing into your subconscious. It …

Black-listed

This is an only post from my old blog I just thought I'd re-post on here.  It appears the music industry has founded Justin Bieber's female counterpart, however unlike Bieber, who will inevitable gain tinnitus due to the constant array of screaming girls, the only screaming the industries latest infant Rebecca Black will hear, is …

The modern music festival: Fashion over fun.

The music festival A.K.A the muddy catwalk. Where heels become wellies and couture becomes crop tops and the currently fashionable denim crotch-riders better known to most as shorts. A place where originality is bludgeoned on the head by an abundance of vintage clothing. People go to festivals primarily to listen to music, of course. However lets …

Drugs, Bugs & Blunders- The day I spoke to Shaun Ryder.

Here is a cringe worthy feature...FAN GIRL ALERT... I wrote for Audio Addict magazine on the one and only Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays. Enjoy. It's happened. It's finally happened. The interview that seemed to be but a aspiring dream has finally become reality. To understand the trauma behind this tale let me take …

So you’re a music journalist, you must write about music then? Umm yeah, about that…

I've noticed something recently, something fairly odd. I am a Music Journalism student, and yet I rarely seem write about music. Why? Y'know, I'm not actually 100% sure. Perhaps it's all circumstantial, perhaps the nature of my course has led me to tire of music and associate it with academia and boredom OR perhaps I've just out-grown music!!! Poppycock! …

New tattoo Miss Cole, I say. No Pet. No.

Promise this Chezza, you'll stop now, right? Wrong. Looks like Cheryl Cole has only gone and got another tattoo. Well, this one is a cover up but still, why?! Now you may think I'm over reacting but I'm not, I'm really not. This thing is HUGE. It covers the whole of her lower back, and …

R.I.P Guitar Cafe. The City Reign- One To Watch.

The common expression is that bad things come in threes, well. I think that saying is a load of tripe. In fact, it's really quite the opposite, good things come in threes. Really really, really good things to be more accurate. In fact it's been a long time since my ears have been exposed to …

R.I.P Guitar Cafe. James J Turner- How Could It Be Wrong. Album Review.

It seems Liverpool has done it again, popped out yet another corker. Indeed, yes if you enjoy folk rock music, I'm pretty sure you'll probably like this. James J Turner is a dedicated, committed, hard working and passionate performer. Gigging since the tender age of nine, James is definitely worthy of praise. After the success …

R.I.P Guitar Cafe. The Retrospective Soundtrack Players -Catcher In The Rye Album Review

“The Catcher In The Rye” A book that surely, EVERYONE has heard off. Be that trough parody, school, or just a love of literature. Yes, it's a controversial book, blamed for murder and banned by governments for it's in depth exploration into the themes of alienation, identity and rebellion. When knowing this, to some it …

R.I.P Guitar Cafe. The Trade- One To Watch Feature.

2012 officially has to be labled the year of homogeneity for music. The charts are crammed with overly repetitive  lyrically challenged tripe. The type of music which is only tolerable after one has consumed one too many beverages  However it appears that there is now hope, hope in the form of the Scottish five piece The Trade. Indeed, it appears that …