1)The XX – XX 14% 2)Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 13% 3)La Roux – La Roux 6% 4)Florence & The Machine – Lungs 5% 5)White Lies – To Lose My Life 5% The XX – Heart Skipped A Beat Phoenix – Lisztomania

First things first, some thanks in order…. To my wife Pauline, a life-long Bunnymen fan who missed the gig as my listing had no plus one and the gig was sold out. I must also thank Zoe from Big Method for the listing and photo pass, finally Kip!! I arrived at the Roundhouse, this fantastic venue [...]

I figure having been a model comes in quite handy when it comes to press and promo shots. I’ve seen some truly awkward promotional photos in my day, but for Lissy Trullie this must be all be old hat. Though I’m left wondering – with all the excellent press shots she has, why oh why [...]

Lately, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to perception and how I view the world, especially with regard to music and the associated imagery (hello, it’s a music blog and I don’t get paid to do it, so you have to figure I’m kinda sorta obsessed with the whole ball of wax in the [...]

I might as well just re-christen this ‘The Twilight Blog’ since I seem to be rabidly gobbling up anything related to it. Well, that might be a wee bit of an overreaction as this is only the second Twilight-related post I can recall, but it’s only been a day since the first one. I don’t [...]

Now THIS is how you do a remix. Leave it to an expert like Richard X to show the new kids how it’s done. I described Dragonette’s ‘Pick Up The Phone’ as a sort of sugar overload, a ‘You got peanut butter in my chocolate!’, ‘No, you got your chocolate in my peanut butter!’ kind [...]

I have to admit, this announcement had me really, really excited until I actually looked at the tour dates and realized that ‘US Tour!’ meant ’4 dates on the east coast’. Okay, okay, I’m coming across pretty damn bitter, but I can’t help it! It seems 95% of the bands I love won’t touch Arizona [...]