Amy Pay believes that The Betrayal is an addictive and heartfelt album, showing Lostprophets at the top of their game.
Emo

Funeral For a Friend – Your History Is Mine: 2002-2009
Is it Christmas already? The first of the stocking-filling-Record-Execs-wallet-filling cash-ins have arrived and it’s Funeral For A Friend with their Maiden/Emo fuelled ROCK who are up first.

Paramore – Brand New Eyes
“Do you really want me to review this? I asked for anything heavy…and you sent me this!” And so went the conversation with TLOBF editor in chief.

Not Advised – Fight For This EP
It’s all too easy to label British pop-punk/ emo bands in skinny jeans as whiney, guyliner-scrawled, Americanised twenty-somethings with a need to vent their bottled up teen angst. However Not Advised are better than this generalisation…
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- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
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