Italy – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk CREATE:COMMUNICATE:CONNECT Sat, 17 May 2014 12:44:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-FAVICON-90x90-1-32x32.png Italy – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk 32 32 The Vickers – Ghosts https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-vickers-ghosts/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-vickers-ghosts/#respond Sat, 17 May 2014 12:44:50 +0000 http://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=3648 A kaleidoscopic trippy riot of an album, Ghosts is a gliding and whirling journey through sixties melodies and nineties swagger from Italian band The Vickers.
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There’s a hypnotic pulse throughout, and it feels vital. All I Need echoes with the sound BRMC would make if they took a load of ‘shrooms, whilst the spiral of descent on Hear Me Now glimmers with Revolution era stunning simplicity. Flourishes of Led Zeppelin flirt with a Kasabian bounce and a delirious almost The Coral esque spaced out vibe. A dense spectrum of shades and sounds flickers in these twisting waves, luring you in until you love from the poppy first single She’s Lost to the slow, quivering On A Rope. Senseless is a personal highlight, a gentle roll of angsty acceptance, particularly when followed by the shuffling stomp of On and On. The whole thing has a dense illusory feel, subtle quivers and colourful swoops flourishing along with a hypnotic whirl, but isn’t so complex as to be baffling, chock full of pop hooks and looping melodies.
Signed to Ireland’s Ruby Music, the Florence band (Andrea Mastropietro, Federico Sereni and Francesco Marchi – swoonsome names) aren’t well known over here (can you name any Italian bands?) but surely will be soon. Wonderful stuff.

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-vickers-ghosts/feed/ 0 Spring Offensive – Not Drowning But Waving https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/spring-offensive-not-drowning-but-waving/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/spring-offensive-not-drowning-but-waving/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:33:35 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1392 It’s always nice to see a band doing things their own way, and Spring Offensive are certainly a band who do just that. The excellent new single ‘Not Drowning But Waving’ has a video that was created and directed by the band themselves.
Spring Offensive guitarist and video creator/ director Matt Cooper states “The video takes the song’s narrative beyond the central event, investigating the burden and consequences of guilt; the main character’s reenactment of the drowning by wearing the dead man’s clothes and filling the bathroom with things from the beach, could stem from this or from a desire to experience what it is like for the victim”. You can watch the video for yourself, here:
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Not Drowning But Waving is available digitally now and available to pre-order on vinyl from 10th September 2012.
The band will be embarking upon a huge tour from the end of September to the middle of November, you can catch them at any of the following dates:

20.09      (NLD)    Utrecht, Tivoli
21.09      (DEU)    Hamburg, Reeperbahn Festival
22.09      (NLD)    Zwolle, Hedon
24.09      (NLD)    Heemskerk, Lokaal
25.09      (LUX)    Luxembourg, Rockhal
26.09      (BEL)    Leuven, Welcome Festival
27.09      (BEL)    Kortrijk, Den Trap
28.09      (BEL)    Brussels, Mme Moustache
29.09      (CH)     Geneva, La Graviere
30.09      (CH)     Porrentruy, Secret Show
01.10      (CH)     Bern, Ono
03.10      (CH)     Baden, Merkker
04.10      (CH)     Basel, Hinterhof
05.10      (CH)     Zurich, Exil
06.10      (CH)     Wil, Gare De Lion
15.10      (ITA)     Milan, Transito
16.10      (ITA)     Trieste, Tetris
17.10      (ITA)     TBC
18.10      (DEU)   Munich, Feierwerk
19.10      (DEU)   Freiburg, Raeng Teng Teng
20.10      (DEU)   Stuttgart, Keller Klub
21.10      (DEU)   Bedroom Disco Secret Show
22.10      (DEU)   Dresden, Ostpol
23.10      (DEU)   Leipzig, Theater Neues Schauspiel
25.10      (DEU)   Berlin, Secret ‘Wohnzimmer’ show
26.10      (DEU)   Berlin, Secret ‘Wohnzimmer’ show
27.10      (DEU)   Berlin, Lido
02.11      (DEU)   Berlin, Magnet
03.11      (DEU)   Hamburg, Molotow
05.11      (DEU)   Munster, Pension Schmidt
06.11      (DEU)   Hannover, Glocksee
07.11      (DEU)   Cologne, Stereo Wonderland
08.11      (DEU)   Heidelberg, Haell
09.11      (DEU)   Mainz, Schon Schoen
16.11      (UK)     All UK dates announced soon…
 
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