Interview with Clean Cut Kid for Surge Radio

Below is my interview with Clean Cut Kid which was from last year during their tour with Fickle Friends. We mainly spoke about the how the band formed and who their musical influences were, as well as where they thought they would be 20 years from now. It's great to see that since this interview they have thrived on the music scene and will be shortly going on tour around the UK.  I was also luckily enough to watch them play that evening and later in 2016 at Reading where I had a chance to catch up with them and see how they were. My ones to watch for this year!

My first encounter with The Last Shadow Puppets

A literal first review!

The Last Shadow Puppets- who, what, where how and why have I not heard of this band before? Instantly I recognised Alex Turner's voice but then I wonder what he is doing under another bands name. A scan over Wikipedia later reveals that this band has been around since 2008 with Alex Turner being the lead singer for this band as well as Arctic Monkeys. Fair to say I'm questioning my music reviewing status as we speak with how unaware I was of this. But never the less I'm going to let everyone know about their song 'Is This What You Wanted'.



If you were to close your eyes and not watch the music video, you would sense some characteristics of 80's male singer style band, weirdly even Freddie Mercury sprung to mind but I think that was more based on the lyrics rather than music style. Open your eyes and the video genre is also very 80's basic recording of a performance of the song.  If this was released back in the 80's I'm pretty sure it could have easily been number one on Top of the Pops. Sadly in today's musical climate I don't know how far this will go but if you like something different and alternative this is definitely heading in that direction. It's also quite nice to see Alex Turner outside of Arctic Monkeys. This slower more mellow tone from him works just as well and it's good to see diversity even if it isn't massively different from what he does. A band I will have to do some musical homework on but interested to see what else they have done in the past.

Newest addition from Chase and Status

Can't get enough of this new track from Chase and Status

I have always been a fan of Chase and Status, I almost forgot just how much I did until I heard this track.  It's one of those where you have your headphones in on your way to somewhere or sat in a car looking out the window thinking your in a music video kind of tracks. It features very stereotypical beats and pace that Chase and Status tend to use, but they just never seem to get boring. More so I have to really big up the feature on this track being Tom Grennan. Not someone I can personally say I have heard of before, but definitely one I hope to hear more from in the future. Love the attitude he gives with his vocals. Very excited to see what Chase and Status have in store for us.