Honey Lung | Stuttering Mind | Single Review

At the end of September Honey Lung released their new single Stuttering Mind. I only came across Honey Lung recently but they have to be one of my favourite new discoveries, I immediately fell in love with them and I’m sure you will too.

Stuttering Mind starts off with this dreamy guitar melody, that’s soon joined by the rest of the band and the vocals. Following on from their last release Sophomore, Stuttering Mind has confirmed this band are all about some shoegaze magic.

It’s so chilled, the kind of song you want to gaze out of the window at some scenic views whilst in the passenger side of a car ride or to dance around your room in your underwear with your eyes closed. It’ll make you feel like you’re still a teenager and remind you of all the good things in life. It really takes you away to this calm and reflective place in your mind.

The guitars are full of fuzz and reverb, that combined with layered vocals create this exciting bitter sweet sound. It’s Wolf Alice meets the Pixies with soft and hazy vocals from Jamie Batten. To put it simply Stuttering Mind is a beautiful song.

Spotify - Honey Lung - Stuttering Mind

Review by Holly Beson-Tams

BRIBES | She Sings Blues | EP Review

Bribes are a three piece originating from Liverpool, a city that’s producing some amazing bands in the underground seen at the moment, and these guys are right up there in our list of favourites. Myself and Ben (my right hand man at Denim+Leather) are both heavily into blues rock, when Bribes sent me their EP to listen to I immediately sent it to Ben, we both were a little stunned with a ‘woah…well then’. There’s only a few bands around trying to achieve that blues rock perfection, a genre I think is quite difficult to do right. Usually you listen to it and you’re like, where’s the blues? This is just rock. Or it’s a heavy White Stripes rip off. But I’ve got to say, Bribes have got this bang on. The EP, to put it simply is fucking awesome. Bribes released their EP She Sings Blues in May this year, it’s not that heavy but I imagine if you saw it live it’d be a different story.

The first song on the EP is the title track, the song is a rock and roll with that twist of blues that reminds me of artists such as The Raconteurs, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Band Of Skulls, three bands that are massive compliments to be compared to.  The guitars in this track have got such a raw distorted sound to just hook you in straight away, the vocals throughout the EP give Bribes a born rock star sound. With a bigger push on their social media to raise more awareness of their shows and EP these guys could sky rocket to play some incredible gigs. They’ve already played alongside big names like The Shimmer Band.

If the EP was a person it’d be a leather jacket, cowboy boot wearing whiskey drinking bad ass. Every track oozes coolness, it’s an easy listen full of sexy guitar riffs and lyrics full of desire. This is definitely one for people with a love of some good rock and roll.

Listen to the EP here - She Sings Blues Spotify

Review by Holly Beson-Tams

Foo Fighters Announce UK Shows

The worlds beloved Foo Fighters have just announced 3 UK Stadium Shows after releasing their latest album Concrete and Gold 

Last Saturday October 7th, Foo Fighters curated and headlined their own Cal Jam 17 festival in San Bernardino, California, topping a bill featuring Queens of the Stone Age, Liam Gallagher, Royal Blood, Wolf Alice, The Kills and a host of others.  Foo Fighters’ incendiary headline set was received rapturously by a crowd of Foo believers over 30,000 strong, as the band reaffirmed that they are absolutely without peer as the world’s foremost live rock act – something those who witnessed their Glastonbury set this summer knew full well.

They'll be playing the following shows in June of 2018:

MANCHESTER Etihad Stadium - Tues 19th

LONDON Stadium - Fri 22^nd 

LONDON Stadium - Sat 23^rd 

Tickets available from 9am Friday October 20th from http://gigst.rs/FooF

Check out ‘Run’ from the band’s acclaimed #1 LP ‘Concrete and Gold’ here Foo Fighters 'Run' - Video

The Indigo Project | York, 2.10.17 | Gig Review

Leeds based five piece The Indigo Project headlined The Crescent this Monday evening, bringing in three brilliant and well known York bands as their support, Follow The Giant, Cry Baby and Serotones.

Opening up were four piece Follow The Giant, the band released their latest single Chemistry a couple of months ago, which they saved towards the end of the set.  From start to finish they played with a lot of energy and frontman Jamie Collins was constantly moving about the stage and giving his best efforts to try and get the crowd more involved. It’s never easy being the first band on, especially when the crowd are all rather young and not willing to move too much. But despite this unenthusiasm the band continued to play with as much passion as they would at any gig.Inspired by bands such as Catfish and The Bottlemen and The Hunna, Follow The Giant are a heavy indie pop-rock band, their songs are all catchy, will have you moving and singing along in no time. Last night was the first night on their autumn tour, make sure you catch them at one of their gigs. 

Second on were Cry Baby, a band I’ve seen perform a handful of times and have always had a blast watching. It was obvious that the crowd were more associated with Cry Baby and therefore they were able to raise the energy in the room considerably more. A group of girls at the front were dancing from start to finish of their set, and the rest of the crowd were moving to the indie melodies they provided. They played the two singles they released earlier this year How It Might Be and Take Me Away. Which had a few members of the audience singing along, myself included. They also played few new songs, one of which guitarist Olly Chilton played a mini solo that had an old school guitar rock feel to it, which is something I’ve never heard from Cry Baby before but thoroughly enjoyed. The band also seemed to have loosened up on stage and they were giving a lot more energy than some of their earlier gigs this year. Moving about on stage more and interacting with each other, they just looked like they were having so much more fun up there and the audience responded to it. Frontman Jack Armstrong has a voice much suited to their upbeat indie sound and

Main support was one of my favourite York bands, Serotones, they played brilliantly and kept the crowd moving throughout their set ready for the headliners. Singer Duke Witter has one of the best frontman attitudes I’ve seen in a while, he constantly moves around the stage, gets audiences riled up and has a bold confidence that can only grow to carry Serotones to bigger and better things. They opened up with Keep In Mind, a track that only the fans who have seen them live before would recognise, they followed this with She Said, the last track they released a recording of, and one of their softer more indie based songs. Middle of the set list was one of my favourites of their live songs, Tell Me How It Feels, they recently performed an acoustic version of the song on YO1 Radio which you can see a snippet of on their Facebook page. Bassist Sonny Leach and guitarist Sam Lambert swapped instruments for their last song Never Back Down which displayed their strong musical talent and added an extra something to the set. Serotones have their first headline gig and EP launch at Fibbers on 2^nd November with support from DVSK, The Mallrats and Glass Traps. This is the best line up we’ve seen since The Televangelists’ headline gig; it’s going to be an absolutely crazy night as all of these bands get a crowd going insane.

Finally Leeds headliners, The Indigo Project took to the stage, they’re currently halfway through their Autumn tour, supporting the release of their latest single release By Your Side. This was my first time seeing The Indigo Project live and they didn’t disappoint, despite the crowd filtering down they played with a lot of energy and talent. Their songs are upbeat indie pop that you simply can’t stand still to. Frontman Joe Spink, engaged with the audience brilliantly, managing to get a bunch of stiffs to loosen up and have a bogey to the bands songs. I’ve never seen a band with three guitarists before, and would normally question the need for so many, but The Indigo Project stand on stage like a small musical family that were born to perform together. They just looked like they were having such fun on stage and it made the audience want to mimic that level of energy. I can only imagine how brilliant they must be live at some of the bigger venues they have performed at with the audience number being in the 100s.

Review and photography by Holly Beson-Tams