Portico Quartet are four young musicians from South London who sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Living and playing together they describe their ethos as like an Indy band that plays post-jazz, and their unique sound has won them fans from Gilles Peterson to Radio 4 and Notion to BBC Music Magazine, and made...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Rhythmatic
Rhythmatic are a 6 piece band of musicians from Leeds College of Music. They have the desire to create a function band of the highest and affordable standard. Rhythmatic mix up old and new using pop, funk, soul and rock to get all ages on the dance floor.
The six members are Lorna on vocals, Seb vocals,...
Ellen & The Escapades: Holy Trinity Church 16th May 2009
The lovely ‘Ellen & The Escapades‘ are a band we have been following closely over the last 6 months. They’ve been planning a single launch party for near 6 months to mark the release of their 7″ vinyl-only single ‘Without You’. The venue was the awesome Holy Trinity Church on Boar Lane in Leeds centre. ...
Micky P Kerr: Carpe Diem 14th May 2009
On Thursday night we were invited along to the re-launch of Carpe Diem in Leeds. Our host for the evening was the lovely Roxanne. With live music being such a big part Of Carpe Diem over the past 8 years which has seen the likes of a young Kaiser Chiefs and Pigeon Detectives grace its stage before moving on...
HI-FI Club: 360 Night 6th May
Wednesday night we dropped into Richard Watsons 360 club night down at the mighty Hi-Fi club in Leeds. They’ve relaunched their night on Wednesday’s now, before Hifi’s longstanding MoveOnUp soul night. First act, was TSG faves Pilla- Dave Rees & Jen Chapman working a set of their classic and spanking new acoustic numbers. They were...