In League With Paton

Two momentous events happened this week, and neither had anything to do with the impending general election (more of that in an imminent pos...

Pure Reason Revolution, Fans Of Kate- The Barfly, Chalk Farm 18/4/05 Bloody typical. The one time I actually arrive early for a pre-arranged...

Another account rather than a proper review, and another thrilling evening I'm pleased to report. My new band Correspondent played their...

Colonel Bastard, MJ Hibbett and The Validators, Unit - The Man On The Moon, Cambridge Obviously I can't really review my own gig - so th...

I can't believe I've managed to let In League With Paton's first birthday slip by (can it really be a year since I started this?...

This has made me quite excited..... http://www.nme.com/news/112011.htm Following the remix album, it seems Depeche Mode are fashionable once...

Redjetson, Libreez, Twentysix Feet, Jeremy Warmsley – The Marquee 11/4/05 Truth be told, this was a bit of a frustrating evening, although c...

Prefuse 73 – Surrounded By Silence (Warp) A more appropriate title might well have been ‘Surrounded By Special Guests’, so prominent are col...

…As Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat sang back in early 1990. This is part one of what will most likely become a two-week long megapost as I try ...

Teenage Fanclub, The Scala, London 29/3/05 It’s been a while since we’ve seen The Fannies round these parts. Their last tour was a couple of...

Yes, for the first time since last year's Glastonbury Festival I will be hitting the radio airwaves once more! In League With Paton (the...

5x2 (Dir: Francois Ozon) This new film from Francois Ozon, the enfant terrible of French cinema, appears to have divided critics somewhat a...

Rilo Kiley at the Marquee 16/3/05 I normally hate all seated gigs, but a chair would have been a great relief at this one. I haven’t been ke...

The Arcade Fire, King's College Student Union, 8th March 2005 I don’t normally go in for hyperbole, but this really was something quite ...

Well I promised posts over the weekend, and have failed in my duty largely due to vegetating in front of Snooker on the TV (if there is a tr...

Two pieces of news to report which have raised my spirits in the last couple of days. First off - Columbia Records are to release a new Bruc...

Patrick Wolf – The Borderline, 14/02/05 In search of something productive to do to avoid the tedium of Valentine’s day, I picked up a last m...

The Broken Family Band – Welcome Home, Loser (Track and Field) Strawberry Fair, Midsummer Common, Cambridge, 2003 – The Broken Family Band h...