Against All Odds is the second outing from Camden-based N-Dubz, the moniker of three South London school-friends. Following on from the somewhat unexpected success of their first album Uncle B, the trio have switched record labels, taken a strongly bouncy route, and released the new LP.
The record, which is as yet untitled, will be released early next year.
I have to admit, I’m struggling with this one. The thing I’m struggling with most isn’t whether or not I like it. Well, actually it is; because I’m not sure how I feel about it, I don’t know how to write about it. It’s all very emotional, this reviewing lark.
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Nov 18, 2009 • There's always a danger that bands who take to Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena stage may find themselves dwarfed by the cavernous hall, reminiscent of a WW2 bomb shelter despite being less than 15 years old. Arctic Monkeys have spent their brief career slowly building up to this moment - a full arena size tour -...
It sounds exactly as you’d expect a Dame Shirley Bassey album to sound.
It was, for me, becoming one of life’s certainties; music has both the voice and the range to impress upon any moment. Whether it is in celebrating a sporting triumph, thanking your version of our maker or wooing a lover, a sonic backdrop that can raise the emotions is seemingly always available.
Sometimes you hear something which truly redefines your thoughts on the genre; something utterly enrapturing which leaves you agape at the brilliance that just spewed out of your Hitachi two-piece; something captivating to the senses, like a shuddering orgasm from start to finish, leaving you drained but beyond happy. This is not one of those...
Take That and Robbie Williams both joined Sir Paul McCartney on stage for an ensemble rendition of Hey Jude.
Sitting down to write this review I wasn’t sure just how to start it. There were ideas, sure, but they wouldn’t translate onto the page. I had writer’s block. Hard. Then I glanced down at my notes and saw one word drunkenly scrawled across the top of my pad, underlined four times: “NOISE”.
Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums will join The Maccabees on the tour, which starts in Newcastle on February 4.
Brighton band Brakes (or Brakes Brakes Brakes if you live in America – more on that later) are a busy bunch of boys... A long time ago, TMM sent them some questions – and then, like an anxious mother, we waited with bated breath by the phone/letterbox/computer for word.
