Polly Scattergood: Polly Scattergood
Features
You'll know within seven minutes whether you've got the stomach for Polly Scattergood, a youthful Brit School graduate with the name and appearance of a consumptive Dickensian match-girl.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009
One Little Plane: Until
Features
Her moniker comes from a 40s Disney cartoon, and with her cutesy, dreamy voice and a flurry of tambourines, bells and xylophones you could be forgiven for thinking a five-year-old had raided the school music box.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 23, 2008
Pop preview: Pete Doherty, London
Features
When a man is tired of London, he is apparently tired of life. Pete Doherty is a man proving that quite the opposite is true. After several years of helping the police with their enquiries and intermittently making music in the capital, he has lately made a decision less informed by rock'n'roll, more, seemingly, by Phil'n'Kirstie: he has downsized to enjoy a new pace of life in the country.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 23, 2008
Pop preview: The Rascals, on tour
Features
When the Arctic Monkeys sneeze, the Rascals catch a cold. Formed seemingly in the image of the Monkeys, they share an affinity with their Sheffield counterparts that's slightly distracting. Singer Miles Kane enjoys a profitable second career as one of the Last Shadow Puppets with Alex Turner, and while their bands' songwriting styles are similar, the Rascals' songs are neither strong character portraits, nor particularly memorable tunes. This homecoming stretch of their tour, will, however, no doubt give them encouragement to continue.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 23, 2008
No 4: Portishead - Third
Features
It came after a near decade-long hiatus for the Bristolian trio, but nothing about Third suggested Portishead were emerging from the musical wilderness, nor that this was a band whose heyday was behind them.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 12, 2008
Neil Young: Sugar mountain - Live at Canterbury 1968
Features
To anyone but the most dedicated fan, the Neil Young Archives - an exhaustive documentation of his four-decade live career - looks like a superfluous and self-indulgent extravagance.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 12, 2008
Mercury Rev
Features
"We had a really good night last night. And I'm not talking about the concert," begins pixie-voiced frontman Jonathan Donahue, ominously.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 10, 2008
