After Hours is back after a short vacation. We’ve been in touch with tons of your favourite artists as well as some of our new favourite acts to find out what they’ve been listening/reading/watching etc. Kicking things off this week is David Cronenberg’s Wife’s lead singer Tom Mayne. We were rather taken with their debut album Bluebeards Room and thought we’d get inside his head a little bit more.. Turns out he’s a bit of an agraphobe in his spare time - perhaps that explains some of the paranoia strewn lyrics that run throughout the album.. Continue Reading

Despite unavoidable assumptions, Bluebeard’s Room is not an album made by pirates. Or for pirates. It has absolutely nothing to do with pirates, unless there’s some hugely subtle or coded reference, or a band member was a pirate in a previous life.

Another variable seems to be the band’s nationality. At times ( see ‘Johnny Bentham’s Dilemma’ and ‘I Couldn’t Get Off’) the vocals have a Dylan drawl and words run together, with a touch of Kings Of Leon lazy articulating, but the accent is as English as a good queue. On album opener ‘Runaway Pram’, and ‘I Do Know’ the vocals sound distinctly of Gallagher origin. Continue Reading