# 4

Apologies for neglecting this so badly, but I've been so busy. A month has gone by in what seems like a week!

Erm, so where do I start? Went to Benicassim (strictly hols, no reviews), which was hot and lovely apart from the 'hurricane' on the Friday (it was a bit of bloody wind really)... finally got to see TV on the Radio though! Absolutely amazing band, very special experience for me despite having to see them by myself, none of the other girls really like them like I do!
I got back and went straight down to London the next day to do some experience at The Metro- they're printing an article of mine sometime this month in the travel section.
So briefly, then. This is my BBC review i did for Chickenhawk for the Futuresound Leeds Festival Competition. It was an amazing gig, and rightly they ended up winning a place - well in lads!
Otherwise... this is the Toddla T review I did for Contact Music. He's probably the most interesting thing I've come across in a while... such an ace mish-mash of everything.

So off to Moor Fest in about 2 hours, and I'm happy to discover that the weather is going to be beautiful this weekend - I don't think it could possibly have been worse than last year's. And then I have a grand total of 3 days at home before it's off to France to cover Le Route Du Rock. Line-up includes My Bloody Valentine, Deerhunter and Crystal Stilts - if I'm lucky I may get to interview one of them so I'm really giddy. Will post up here as soon as I get time!

Ta, N xx

# 3

Here's my BBC feature on Stag and Dagger festival 2009, the most sonically pleasing festival to grace Leeds in some time:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2009/05/29/gig_review_stag_and_dagger_feature.shtml

# 2

A couple of reviews I did for Contact Music:

Scaramanga Six here

and Lucky Elephant here.

I've got a few more for that nice website that should be about in the next week. Including, amongst other things, Skanky Skanky by Toddla T. To be honest I did it on a bit of a whim, dubstep is hardly going to be my specialist subject on Mastermind!
But good result anyway: I think the album's pretty good. Or should that be bangin'? or filthy? God knows what the kids are saying these days.

In other news it's too hot to work today, so I don't plan to. Maybe some token photocopying to get me out of the office and away from The Wicked Witch of The West. Her voice is particularly shrill today, like a copper kettle on the boil. Bad times.

# 1

Now then. This is my latest BBC review:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2009/06/19/gig_review_josephs_well_feature.shtml

And my first censored article! I tried to plug a local indie label which I really like, but it apparently didn't suit the angle of the piece. Well, BBC, this is the another bit of the internet and I can do what I bloody well please here (Including writing graphic descriptions of whatever I want to do to Girls Aloud. Yikes.)

So, here's the world's biggest PLUG for Philophobia music. Not only did the lovely boys behind it give me some of my first articles when I started writing locally, but it's jam-packed full of nutritious muscial goodness, and the EP is a mere £3.