James Auton

Nov 7, 2023 | godisinthetvzine.co.uk | James Auton |Swansea Sound

You can imagine the black bedecked members of bar italia hiding away in the Mallorca studio they recorded The Twits in, shutters closed, no lights on, horizontal slits of sun creating a barrier across the room, a mild February Balearic breeze drifting in, a broken spined, battered copy of Roald Dahl’s story about a revolting couple who hate the world and washing themselves opened face down on the floor, dust floating in the air. Not that the four members look unkempt.

Sep 20, 2023 | godisinthetvzine.co.uk | James Auton |Swansea Sound

It feels like Bleach Lab have been around for longer than they actually have. The warped reality of the beginning of the decade makes it seem we’re more than three years in, but the band have crammed a lot into that time. Not many bands decide to release their debut LP after three EPs in little over two years (two in six months) but you get the impression this was part of the grand plan or an exercise in honing their craft.

Sep 19, 2023 | godisinthetvzine.co.uk | James Auton |Swansea Sound

For a band that have barely been active for a year, Bored Marsh have been causing a fuss. Two singles down now, it’s still very early days, they haven’t played a gig outside Nottingham but there seems to be a certain je ne sais quoi. For a band in such an embryonic state, let’s start at the very recent beginning. “There’s a shopping centre in Nottingham built in the ’60s called the Broad Marsh, so it’s a play on words with that. People from Nottingham will know.

Sep 7, 2023 | godisinthetvzine.co.uk | James Auton |Swansea Sound

As with whenever you have to make a list of your favourite *insert thing*, if you take too long about it, you drive yourself insane. If you’ve been asked to collate 20 songs from the past 20 years of God Is In The TV, thats one way of making sure you are still awake at 3am trying desperately to chose between the best from 2011 when also not choosing Laura Marling again. So, here’s by no means an exhaustive list, it’s a knee jerk decision in some cases. But I’ll hang my hat on everyone.

Aug 31, 2023 | godisinthetvzine.co.uk | Simon Williams |James Auton

Simon Williams was an NME scribe, following the much-trodden path of the 1970s and ’80s of producing a fanzine which led to getting a gig with a big weekly. At one of the regular pubs they frequented, in 1994, three rock hacks, including him, decided it would be jolly japes to release an EP, 7” only, collated by each of them with six bands, on their own record label. They called it Fierce Panda; 29 and a half years later and it is still going. Somehow.