Our Vinyl of The Week: 30 Seconds To Mars- LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS. This vinyl version from Universal UK does not come with the Damien Hirst cover but an alternative. Virgin Records.

Wednesday May 14, 2013

Written by Frances Roach

After a well paced and welcoming introduction through There, There, the songs that were first to hit several media outlets a few weeks back, Passing Through A Screen Door, Dismantling Summer and The Bastards, The Vultures, The Wolves, continue the well established TWY sound gained from past releases and assuring fans of the strong quality of what is to come.

Taking a slow turn with The Devil In My Bloodstream provides a softness to the record before picking up a notch, or five, halfway through. Definitely the I Won’t Say The Lord’s Prayer of this album, with Madelyn being (loosely) the Hey Thanks of ‘The Greatest Generation’, a gentle acoustic accompanied by delicate chimes.

What I love most about this band is the complete honesty possessed lyrically throughout and frontman Dan “Soupy” Campbell has a way of successfully portraying the thoughts of what everyone else is thinking but rarely saying. This can be heard in the last and longest song I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral, singing “I’m scared shitless of failure and I’m staring out at where I want to be”.

This 7+ minute song continues by summarising the album through a medley of the prior tracklisting, which for me, is by far the stand out track of the album.

With tight drums, particularly in Teenage Parents and An American Religion (FSF) and the infectious catchiness and consistency of guitar lines in every song, The Wonder Years are able to continue to furthermore develop their established name in the genre of pop punk.  

4/5

#VinylOfTheWeek: letlive.- Fake History.

Double White LP. Ltd to 500. Signed by all of the band. Epitaph Records. Kings Road Merch.

Highlights- Enter Shikari @ Liverpool O2 Academy, UK

Sound City Festival 2013

Saturday May 4, 2013

includes snippets from:
Sorry You’re Not A Winner
The Paddington Frisk
Destabilise
Arguing With Thermometers
Mothership
Return To Energizer (with crowd “rowing’ on the floor)

Enter Shikari @ Liverpool Academy, UK

Sound City Festival

Saturday May 4, 2013

Vinyl of the Week: Fireworks - We Are Everywhere. Blue pressing with Acoustic Flexi 7”. Ltd to 500 on Run For Cover Records.

Vinyl of the Week: Paramore B-Sides clear vinyl (1. Escape Route 2. Native Tongue) Ltd to 7,000 on Fueled By Ramen.

Retrospective: New Found Glory / ISHC @ Club Academy

Manchester, UK

August 23, 2009

A UK warm up show for the Reading & Leeds Festivals.

Pure Love @ Deaf Institute, Manchester
Thursday April 11, 2013

Highlights from the Paramore show at The Garage, London including a speech by frontwoman Hayley Williams.

Medley includes snippets from songs:

Renegade

Pressure

Careful

In The Mourning

Fences

Ignorance

Photoset (Part 2): Paramore @ The Garage, London

Friday April 5, 2013

Photoset: Paramore @ The Garage, London

Friday April 5, 2013

Retrospective: The Jonas Brothers

@ Manchester Evening News Arena, UK

supporting Avril Lavigne

May 29, 2008

Retrospective: VersaEmerge @ Club Academy, Manchester UK

May 23, 2011

Retrospective: Avril Lavigne @ Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester UK

Thursday May 29, 2008