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Sadness is still something to value... Johny Brown Interviewed

Jan 16, 2025 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

Sadness is still something to value, something I very much value at least. It’s a beautiful, living, aching sensation that counts on meaning and feeling, things that are too often lacking in this world… Johny Brown InterviewedSadness and Style together, that’s a killer combination. I’m a fool for sadness, always have been, always will be.
HOUSE Of ALL new song heralds third album & tour

Jan 10, 2025 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

The third album by the mighty HOUSE Of ALL (entitled ‘HOUSE Of ALL SOULS’) is due out on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2025, on Tiny Global Productions, preceded by this fantastic taster track ‘The Good Englishman’. It is a gothic horror wherein the good man is very bad. Said Martin Bramah cryptically when asked about the song. Literate and knowing it’s more Swiftian prose amidst a musical sea of progressive psychedelia with that Fall-alumni backbone and backbeat.
The Loft: video premiere and album out in March 2025

Jan 9, 2025 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

The Loft release a single ‘Dr Clarke’ from the forthcoming album ‘Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same’, out on 14th March 2025 on Tapete Records. LTW premieres the video…Up The Hill and Down the Slope is one of the Top Ten Greatest ‘indie when it Meant Something’ Singles ever made. The Loft probably wouldn’t have been Bigger Than The Beatles if we’re honest, but are the Great Lost Band of the 80’s, who should have a far bigger reputation than they do. It’s fantastic to see them back.
They Might Be Giants: Beast of Horns - album review

Dec 6, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

Album ReviewThey Might Be GiantsBeast of Horns(Idlewild Recordings)Vinyl / CD / DLOut nowLive Album with brass section from Kings of US Geek Rock. Our special guest reviewer, the artist known as Dan O’Farrell. NB. Beast of Horns is not on streaming platforms as a full-length album (just a 4-song sampler). Rather it will be an exclusive vinyl record, download, and compact disc available from the TMBG Store and at brick-and-mortar record shops.
Final Act of Resistance - A Night of Music To Remember Simon Holliday

Nov 29, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

‘Final Act of Resistance – A Night of Music To Remember Simon Holliday Friday 6 December 2024 at the Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, with all proceeds going to The LifeHouseFrom a musical point of view, this is gonna be an absolutely cracking gig! Noisy guitars a-plenty and great tunes and that indefinable, underground essence of us against the rest of the world. There will just be one person missing. There only in spirit.
Jamie Perrett: Age of Reason - single review

Nov 20, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

Jamie PerrettAge Of ReasonDL onlyOut 20 November 2024Jamie is the son of Peter Perrett, the man who wrote ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’, arguably one of the greatest rock songs ever written. Consequently he has a lot to live up to. His guitar-playing on, and production of his fathers ‘The Cleansing’ album shows that he is a hugely talented fellow in his own right. This is the first of a trilogy of solo songs he is releasing…And it’s fucking great.
Neovenator: Songs From The End Of The Pier - album review

Nov 13, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

Album ReviewNeovenator Songs From The End Of The Pier Flicknife RecordsCD / DLOut now(4/5)Formed in 2021 and described as ‘psychedelia-tinged garage rock n roll’ by Vive Le Rock. This is Neovenators debut album. A fabulous mix of influences (Stranglers, The Fallen Leaves, the Antz, Cardiacs and the Kinks) says Ged Babey, considering Olde English Peculiar as a name for their one of a kind, genre instead of Steampunk Psych.
Micko & the Mellotronics: Guilty - the Ruth Ellis song

Nov 1, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

Single Review / Interview / BackstoryMicko and the Mellotronics GuiltyLandline RecordsDL only – Pre-save nowOut 15 Nov 2024Micko And The Mellotronics’ release their new single Guilty. A brilliant, brand new stand alone track about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK. Louder Than War has followed Micko for some years as his songs have always got a lot going on under the surface and this one is no exception.
Plastic Bag: Dead Kings of Europe - album review

Oct 28, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

album reviewPlastic BagDead Kings of Europe Old Bad HabitsDL/CD/Ltd VinylOut 18 November 20245/5Politics and Art. Familiarity and Contempt. Hooks and Depth. This album has it all. Past, present, future. Bristol-based Plastic Bag are a new band who arrive ‘fully-formed’. Old-school but brand-new, deadly serious – realizing the importance or being earnest: ‘political’, funky and smart. Sprechgesang post-punk but out on their own, says Ged Babey.
The Undertones / Pete Wylie -the 1865, Southampton - live review

Oct 27, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Ged Babey

live reviewThe Undertones / Pete Wylie & The Mighty Wah! the 1865, Southampton26/10/2024 Family Entertainment and Nostalgia for an age that’s arrived. Derry and Liverpool heroes hit the deep South of England. I promised to leave my cynicism at home. This was Mrs B’s idea, a family night out as our son was down from that there London. And somehow I can’t remember ever having seen either band before!Firstly I couldn’t believe how packed it was. A full, 500 capacity, house.