Monday: The day most hate with a passion. It's the day I love the most. As I work in hospitality as my main career, Monday has always been that much needed day off after a weekend of high octane intensity. There is a certain excitement to a Monday morning as I tend to plan my... Continue Reading →
My life has gone totally mad recently which has left a whole host of songs in my queue unshared. I will attempt to catch up on lost time and share a good few of them this afternoon in this edition of the 'Post' Lockdown Mixtape. I've been focusing on the logistics of getting some big... Continue Reading →
Slightly rebranded but the idea is the same. It may not be called The Lockdown Mixtape anymore but there was no chance in hell that this feature could be scrapped. I've invested too much time into these mixtapes, they became my go-to thing during 2020 and they are coming back after a brief hiatus. What's... Continue Reading →
They describe their sounds as art-gaze indie. I just describe it as feckin' brilliant. Palma Louca are a five-piece based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne who are guided by the Pillar Artists label who have been representing some great bands of late. I couldn't even begin to work out what 'art-gaze' means, this genre is above my pay... Continue Reading →
Life has returned to a very busy form of itself in recent weeks, I apologise for the slightly later than billed, twenty-sixth, edition of The Lockdown Mixtape. Look, I don't want to hear any nonsense about the lockdown being over and that the oul Sniffer better think of a new name for a chain of... Continue Reading →
Yes, ReverbNation is very much still a thing! Ever since 2006, ReverbNation has been a key resource for musicians starting out their careers. Offering useful marketing tools and career management services for emerging independent music makers all over the world, many of the world's most cherished artists have made use of the platform sometime along... Continue Reading →
Who knew I'd be sitting down in February 2021 and still writing Lockdown Mixtapes! It's been a bit prolonged this virus lark isn't it? Anywho - we are where we are and this will now become the seventeenth edition of this extended feature. Scribing these articles got me through a ball-ache of a month back... Continue Reading →
Who knew I'd actually manage to stick out fifteen episodes of the Lockdown Mixtape and there's one more in the pipeline for tomorrow too. Over the course of lockdown 2.0, seventy five songs have been reviewed and dissected within this manic feature. It's been a challenging time for us all, thankfully between a couple of... Continue Reading →
