The pairing of two 90s musical maestros could be genius or disastrous. Fortunately Heather Steele finds that Jonny, the brainchild of Norman Blake and Euros Childs, is a harmonious collaboration that highlights their individual styles while creating a different, yet timeless debut.
Teenage Fanclub
Jonny – Gloria (The Line of Best Fit Session)
The hybrid of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci’s Euros Childs and Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake was bound to bear some interesting fruit and we doubt there’ll be a better combination of talents in the next twelve months than Jonny. Expecting a rendition of sublime single ‘Candyfloss’, we actually got something better: the quirky perfect pop minute-and-a-half of ‘Gloria’, an ode to the Miami Sound Machine diva.
ATP’s Bowlie 2 // Day 1 – Butlins, Minehead 10/12/10
From Best Coast to Those Dancing Days, Friday was a perfect introduction to the long anticipated second Belle & Sebastian curated ATP weekend that was Bowlie 2. Lauren Down tells all.
Truck 13 // Day 2 – Hill Farm, Steventon 25/07/10
The second and final part of our Truck 13 Festival coverage which sees Andy Johnson take in Keyboard Choir, Fucked Up and Teenage Fanclub. In between being asked to buy booze for under-age children, that is.
Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
More of the same from Teenage Fanclub, but with songs this good, who can really complain?
Summer Camp, Visions Of Trees and Veronica Falls added to TRUCK lineup
The TRUCK lineup just keeps on getting and better with the latest announcement of bands featuring a bunch of TLOBF favourites.
Yuck to tour with Teenage Fanclub
Beginning later this month – and sandwiching their appearances at Dot to Dot Festival – Yuck will be playing in Manchester, Sheffield and Aberdeen with the newly reformed Teenage Fanclub. UPCOMING LIVE DATES * with Teenage Fanclub MAY 13 – The Great Escape, Brighton 17 – The Harley w/ Japandroids, Sheffield 18 – Shepherd’s Bush [...]
Indietracks Festival, 24th-26th July 2009
From keyboard pop to Scottish harmonics via steam trains and a rebuilt church, Simon Tyers takes in the bonhomie-laden delights of indiepop’s central attraction.
TLOBF Interview :: Indietracks Festival
Steam trains and indiepop – an unlikely match made in heaven. Simon Tyers talks to Stuart Mackay, curator of one of the UK’s most admired small festivals “Indie Tracks” – which is now in its third year.
ATP curated by The Breeders – Minehead, 15th-17th May 2009
“If you had to be spit-roasted by Steve and Todd, who’d you have at which end and why?” Yup it’s ATP round 2. And it just wouldn’t be an ATP without Shellac, would it?
Attic Lights – Friday Night Lights
Jude Clarke falls hopelessly in love with the lush, soul-stirring, well-crafted and downright beautiful debut album from Scottish harmony-merchants Attic Lights.
