In League With Paton

Mike Leigh’s Two Thousand Years is conventional and disappointing Part of my high expectations for Mike Leigh’s return to the stage for the ...

Animal Collective/Caribou/Aoki Takamasa and Tojiko Noriko/Kieren Hebden – The Scala, London 25/10/05 Bloody hell – I should really make it t...

Colonel Bastard - Halcyon Days At last - a proper album from these very fine quirky popsters from Cornwall via Cambridge. Wisely, it gathers...

Back in June, the NME, with its finger firmly on a great cross-promotional marketing opportunity, eagerly declared June 6th to be 'Super...

Forgive me for sounding like one of Petridish's dreaded Guardian reviews for a moment, but there have been two notable trends in 2005 - ...

New albums from Jackson and His Computer Band, John Cale, Calexico/Iron and Wine, Bill Frisell, The Bad Plus and Ryan Adams hit the In Leagu...

Neil Young's 'Prairie Wind' It's somewhat appropriate that I should return from Canada just in time for the latest release f...

My first impressions are that Toronto is a great city, although perhaps a little more similar to other US cities than I had expected. There ...

Well sod the dispute over their leader’s nationality, I’m simply delighted that Antony and the Johnsons picked up the Mercury Music Prize ...

The sublime being ‘Year Of Meteors’, the fourth album from Seattle singer-songwriter Laura Veirs , an album which, quite unfairly in my view...

Lots to write about at the moment – especially as posts have become infrequent due to photoshoots, rehearsing and housewarming parties among...