Folly of Youth

The opening song on the eponymous debut long-player from Island Twins imagines “ lying in state/in the Capitol rotunda ”. Rather than posth...

This is the eighth Pulco album, following on from June 2011's " Small Thoughts " (the station where I first boarded the Pulco...

Micro-festivals(sic) came in for a bashing in a recent article on The Quietus. The piece viciously laid into the urban weekender event as t...

Moving from first a solo act to then a fully-fledged band, and with a pair of singles tucked under their collective belts, Yngve (pronounced...

The early sunshine of the third and final day of No Direction Home may have been cruelly short-lived but to brighten up the lunchtime slot ...

Day Two at No Direction Home started with relief - the tent was still standing after the night’s heavy winds. Then on to see Laish open the...

Eskimos have many words for snow. And Nottinghamshire has many types of rain. Or at least it did for the first day of the inaugural No Direc...

“ Second verse / it’s always worse ” claims the song ‘Pages’ on this the debut long-player from Easter . As Thomas Long describes in last mo...

When you come across a seven-piece band in which the cornet player is also the glockenspiel player (step forward the superbly named Tallah B...

I’ve been fairly obsessed with Julia Holter’s “ Ekstasis ” since it was released earlier this year. I can’t remember who or what tipped me o...

So a jubilee bank holiday weekend brings either an overdose of bunting and flag-waving for an out-dated institution or an excuse for a serie...

Manchester Gigs in Music Mixtape: June 2012 Manchester Gigs In Music - June 2012 by Follyofyouth on Mixcloud Or download mixtape [63 mins...

This - the third single from their forthcoming second album - is my first proper listen to Prestonian pranksters Johnny 5th Wheel And The Co...

Despite the tropical weather earlier the Deaf Institute is quite cool tonight. It’s also a little sparse of audience members as Seamus Foga...

“ How is this music? ” was the scathing reaction of the person who interrupted my solitary and loud playing of this record. My reaction was ...