Gig Review: Blood Red Shoes, Wedgewood Rooms
Arriving at the Wedge, there’s a buzz around the air. The place is packed full of punters eager to catch themselves some of Brighton’s finest, Blood Red Shoes. But before we get to that, The Cast of Cheers come on…
Gig Review: Bombay Bicycle Club, Portsmouth Guildhall
Portsmouth again witnesses potential, beauty and brilliance across the space of a night once more. Starting off the show at the Guildhall comes along Rae Morris, a 19 year old singer songwriter from Bristol, silently and serenely arriving and leaving…
Gig Review: Nero at Southampton Guildhall
Southampton once again felt a power which shook its very foundations for one night, as Nero graced its stage with a ferocity and intensity it had not witnessed for quite some time. Up first was Nero’s support act, Millions Like…
Gig review: The Maccabees at Southampton Guildhall
A rapturous return from the Brighton boys, The Maccabees provided Southampton Guildhall with a show that will be remembered for a long time. Southampton was once again witness to a barrage of psychedelic, alternative and so much more. Kickstarting the show…
The BRITS 2012: boring, bland and brilliantly banal
A shambolic travesty, or just a run-of-the-mill awards show? Either way, the BRIT Awards 2012 was a complete and utter disappointment. Yet again, we witnessed the dangers of a live broadcast, allowing people to bear witness to some of the…
Book review: What Are Universities For?
WHAT ARE UNIVERSITIES FOR? Stefan Collini Penguin Books £9.99 Around the world, universities within this sociological climate are even more numerous than before, yet within the vastness of numbers lies a major problem; an unprecedented misperception about their purposes and…
No warm welcome at The Wedge for The Big Pink
Heading into The Wedge and immediately noticing the half-filled capacity of the room, Kassassin Street, the Fratton based band, grace the stage with silence from the crowd. However, the silence is easily answered with frantic, frenetic, and furious tunes reminiscent…
Album Review: The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
In standard fashion, The Maccabees return without any symptoms of third album syndrome. From the very beginning, the album shows direction, with an instrumental that draws you into its audial throws of warmth, before finally embracing you. The lyrics compel…
Future This stuck in the past
Flash back a few years; The Big Pink arrived and unleashed ‘A Brief History of Love’, an album that out of nowhere came and gave pop and radio a good kick in the teeth. Yet after returning from two years…
Coming up in the next issue of The Galleon
Four Year Strong – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms – Tuesday 31st January 2012 Almost exactly a year since they last graced the Wedgewood Rooms, Four Year Strong are coming back to Portsmouth, bringing their unique style of pop punk with them….