Ane Brun has announced to fans that a full concert, from 2008’s Changing the Seasons european tour, has been posted to youtube – and what a beautiful intimate concert it is! The filming took place in Amsterdam’s legendary Paradiso club (a converted church which, since 1968 has hosted concerts), as part of the Fab channel […]
As we wait for the definitive manifesto of Occupy Movement to be written – if that is possible given the diverse range of opinions and voices that are associated with it – this is arguably an opportune moment to look back 50 years at another radical grouping , which did succeed in putting together and […]
Maximo Park release their new album The National Health, and we’re happy to feature a streaming preview here. It’s the Newcastle band’s fourth album, and is produced by the legendary Gil Norton (who produced their double-platinum second album Our Earthly Pleasures). We’re in a global recession and everyone is being bombarded with bouncy, happy music. […]
Meeting Marianne Lee is as confusing as ordering Wasabi in your dessert- sweet and interesting with an alarming kick that leaves you wondering what to make of it all for hours afterwards. You know that it’s definitely going to be a little different (one of the songs on her debut album is a homage to […]
dEUS have released a new album, Following Sea in record time. The album comes hot on the heels of 2011’s Keep you Close, and marks a break in the bands tendency to disappear for years in the studio. It’s the seventh album for the Belgian band, who first came to prominence with 1994’s Worst Case […]
Amy Waldman’s debut novel The Submission rightfully earned its way onto numerous ‘books of the year’ lists at the end of 2011, and was shortlisted for The Guardian’s First Book Award. Waldman, also a succesful journalist, talks to TMO about the novel, 9/11 fiction, and the links between literature and journalism. Martin Amis noted, in his […]
William Wall argues that election results in France and Greece puts the left/right discourse firmly back on the map, after thirty years of right-wing hegemony. What is happening is the radicalisation of public discourse, a possibility that terrifies those who benefit most from the status quo. The Eighth of May was the Fête de la Victoire in France. […]
Counting Crows follow up on 2008’s Saturday Nights Sunday Mornings with an album of cover versions Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation) from the likes of Big Star, Gram Parsons, Teenage Fanclub and Fairport Convention. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and poorly conceived covers albums (hello Sinead […]
The romantic view of terrorists as misfits and lost souls, presented by Dostoevsky and Conrad in their work, is very much at odds with the practical and structured guerilla warfare that was seen during Ireland’s War of Independence