Chris Broom
Entertainments Editor at The News (Portsmouth)
Entertainments editor at The Portsmouth News. Finally putting all that music trivia to some use. All views my own
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1 week ago |
portsmouth.co.uk | Chris Broom
By the mid-noughties, Ian Prowse’s musical career had hit the skids. Following the end of his earlier band, the cult indie-rockers Pele, Prowse had formed Amsterdam. They’d self-released two albums, but by 2004 they “couldn’t get arrested.”It was the song Does This Train Stop on Merseyside? which turned out to be the catalyst for a change of fortune, and is now being marked with a tour celebrating its 20th anniversary – and a rerelease of its parent album, The Journey.
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1 week ago |
portsmouth.co.uk | Chris Broom
It’s a bank holiday weekend, so what better way to spend it than with a guy who wears a plasma sphere on his head and his bandmates who are a bunch of aliens, honest? Henge are, in the best possible way, unhinged. Led by ‘Zpor’, from the planet Agricular, this intergalactic quartet play what they call ‘cosmic dross’. In practice this means music that straddles electronica, funk, prog, psychedelia and the kitchen sink.
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2 weeks ago |
portsmouth.co.uk | Chris Broom
He may have made his name in the late 1990s with the boisterous punk-rock of Idlewild, which later morphed into anthemic, epic indie-rock. But for the past 20 years, Roddy Woomble has also conducted a solo career which has seen him carve a distinct path from the band. And on Tuesday, April 29 he’s playing a gig at Staggeringly Good Brewery in Milton, Portsmouth.
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2 weeks ago |
portsmouth.co.uk | Chris Broom
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – an Englishman, two Irishman and an American walk into a bar. In Madrid. And nearly 20 years later they’re still playing together as the band Track Dogs. That’s a slightly reductive telling of how Garrett Wall (vocals, guitar), Dave Mooney (bass), Howard Brown (trumpet), and Robbie K Jones (percussion) came together, but it’s not far off.
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1 month ago |
portsmouth.co.uk | Chris Broom
April 5 is a sad day for fans of grunge. It marks the anniversary, eight years apart, of the deaths of two of the scene’s greatest frontmen – Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley and Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. Now exactly 31 years on from Cobain’s death, we have Elvana – “Elvis fronted Nirvana” – headlining Portsmouth’s rock/metal/alternative festival, Takedown. Over the past decade or so, the band have become a hit on the festival circuit.
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