Archives for the ‘Music’ Category

Review: Feeder

By Guest Contributors • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: Music, Reviews

It was a cold and bleak November evening in Birmingham, and there couldn’t have been a better place to spend it than in the Carling Academy. Feeder had attracted a sold out crowd, with over 3000 people of mixed age and gender attending.
The new album, ‘Silent Cry,’ was being promoted for the tour so it [...]



Sam Ross ……. Ross Millard (The Futureheads)

By Guest Contributors • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: Interviews, Music

Space’s Sam Ross met up with Futureheads’ (‘Hounds of Love’ + ‘The Beginning of the Twist’) guitarist and backing vocalist Ross Millard after his DJ set last thursday at Propaganda at Blush. The Futureheads where dropped by their record company 679 Recordings in 2006, but formed their own Record label to comeback with their latest [...]



Gig Review: Ron Sexsmith

By Guest Contributors • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: Music, Reviews

Ron Sexsmith
Live @ Birmingham Glee Club (Tues 4th Nov)
I made the impulse decision to check this gig out only hours before Ron Sexsmith was due on stage at the intimate and very awesome Glee Club venue in the heart of Birmingham’s lively Chinatown district. At £20 a ticket, I reluctantly handed over my shopping money [...]



Sam Ross meets ……. The Scratch Perverts

By Guest Contributors • Nov 20th, 2008 • Category: Music

The Scratch Perverts are: Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and Plus One.
Space’s Sam Ross met up with Tony Vegas and Prime Cuts before their DJ set at Park last Friday night.

You were the 1999 DMC Team Championship winners…
T – What 1999? No we’re not.
You’re not? That’s what Wikipedia says…
T – Never trust Wikipedia….. we’ve changed it [...]



Review: Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

By Guest Contributors • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Music, Reviews

Back in 1967 when The Beatles released their much celebrated LP Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the blinding glare of the spotlight of the worlds media, and as it happens rave reviews were the dish of the day. That particular album from the fab four has since been oft-described by critics as their [...]



Interview: Gareth from Pendulum

By Guest Contributors • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Music, Uncategorized

Pendulum was formed in Perth in 2002, by Gareth McGrillen and Rob Swire. They were later joined by DJ Paul Harding, and made a name for themselves in the Drum’n’Bass scene, creating tracks such as ‘Vault’ and ‘Masochist’.
They broke into the mainstream with their album ‘Hold Your Colour’ in 2005. The band now has [...]



Album Review: Fleet Foxes

By Guest Contributors • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Music, Reviews

In this most turbulent of times for the music industry it has become the norm for music lovers to overlook the buying of albums, instead preferring to piece together their own unique playlists free of charge via the increasingly intrusive and all-powerful  internet. 
The Long Player album is slowly vanishing into obscurity along with the need [...]



Interview: Sonique

By Niki Rose • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: Music

You are a very successful singer, songwriter, producer and DJ but what got you into the dance music scene?
I just love music, that’s it, I just love music. I had to get into the music scene I just love it that much.
You’ve played in superclubs up and down the country and even gone Global [...]



Music at the University Of Gloucestershire

By Niki Rose • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: Editorial, Music, News

Are your housemates becoming mutinous with your incessant singing, or perhaps you’re wishing you could find the time to play that trombone propped up in the corner of your room, gathering dust? Sounds like it’s time you found out about music at the University!
Please contact Director of Music Ian Higginson for all details on available [...]