wales – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk CREATE:COMMUNICATE:CONNECT Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:14:15 +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 wales – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk 32 32 Rainbow Maniac – Going Out On My Own https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/rainbow-maniac-going-out-on-my-own/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/rainbow-maniac-going-out-on-my-own/#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:14:15 +0000 https://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=7362 Four pals from the Welsh valleys, Rainbow Maniac certainly don’t make the kind of sound that evokes rolling hills and fluffy sheep. Going Out On My Own is the first track from the upcoming EP1 to be released later this year on Phwoar & Peace Records. The frantic and blistering riffs combine old school rock with a modern sound, a bit like Japandroids, although with a much more amateur output as belies their years and experience. A laissez-faire cadence to the vox is reflected in the looping lyrics all about a part for one on the town. Three minutes of raw looseness that batters with a kind of optimistic angst you’ll be wanting to head straight out with them.

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Photo by Warren Orchard

Georgia Ruth plays Servant Jazz Quarters, London, Feb 2nd 2017 – buy tickets

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New EP to be released in November via Tipping Point Records.

13.10 – London, The Courtyard Theatre
01.11 – Brighton, The Hope And Ruin
02.11 – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
03.11 – Bristol, The Old Bookshop
04.11 – Southampton, The Notes Cafe
06.11 – Glasgow, Broadcast
07.11 – Newcastle, Head Of Steam
08.11 – Manchester, Fallow Cafe
09.11 – Leeds, Oporto
10.11 – Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
17.11 – Norwich, The Shoe Factory Social Club

 

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/bryde-honey/feed/ 0 The Joy Formidable – Wolf's Law https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-joy-formidable-wolfs-law/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-joy-formidable-wolfs-law/#respond Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:11:57 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1635 Released January 21st 2013 on Atlantic Records.

As you might expect, it was with great joy that It’s All Happening heard the news that The Joy Formidable would be releasing their sophomore album. Having spent the last couple of years gathering rock celebrity fans with their intense and angsty music, they are back with Wolf’s Law, an absolutely stunning album, full of celestial grandeur and mountainous brutality.
Things kick off in traditional Joy Formidable style, with swirling orchestral sounds and crashing drums, bubbling up to an impressive and dizzy beginning in the form of This Ladder Is Ours. Second track Cholla was released as a teaser back in 2012, and its spectacularly fiery riffs and mixture of tempos and temperaments were not deceptive. The Maw Maw Song is an earworm if I have ever heard one, it’s syncopated beat and twang compulsive rollicking along, its dominant riff simplistic yet powerful. Coming just after the slower Silent Treatment, it marks the start of side 2, as the artistic packaging informs us. A beautiful end to the album comes in the form of The Turnaround, an immensely epic, brooding, yet unsentimental song, foreboding and formidable.
Ritzy, Matt and Rhydian have done it again.

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