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Prolapse return with a new single

1 month ago | louderthanwar.com | Martin Gray |Jon King

The mighty PROLAPSE return with a new single this week!Released on Tuesday 25th March, it’s called On The Quarter Days and, in the band’s very own words, the title alludes to the following: “In the very olden days, the nearest you could get to nothing was to pay a peppercorn rent – a nominal sum.
Another great year for albums

Dec 4, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Martin Gray

Martin Gray casts his eyes and ears back 30 years to 1994. A year noted for a staggering number of truly remarkable and innovative albums that were released across many diverse genres. From a personal point of view, 1994 was probably the best year of the 90s for great albums. There was such an incredible diversity of genres and so many truly influential and groundbreaking LPs (and even EPs) that came out during that year, that to attempt to revisit them all would be exhaustive.
The Boo Radleys announce live dates for 2025

Nov 28, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Martin Gray

The Boo Radleys announce new live shows for 2025 – plus an exclusive new Giant Steps 30th Anniversary live album download. There is a flurry of new activity from Wallasey’s finest, The Boo Radleys. Firstly, to mark 35 years since their initial inception, they have recently announced their forthcoming ‘C’MON UP!’ tour taking place in early 2025 which sees them returning to play a few live dates to mark the 30th Anniversary of their number 1 album Wake Up! from 1995.
Red Sleeping Beauty : Diary

Nov 21, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Martin Gray

Red Sleeping Beauty : DiaryMatinee RecordsCD | DLReleased 15th November 2024Martin Gray reviews the new album by Swedish indie pop legends Red Sleeping Beauty and discovers that, nearly 35 years on from their first releases, the duo have not lost their hunger for creating exquisite electro pop records.
Pointless Walks To Dismal Places

Nov 20, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Martin Gray

PROLAPSE : Pointless Walks To Dismal PlacesOptic NerveAll Formats AvailableBuy HereIn the first of a two part appreciation of the band Prolapse and their recorded output, Martin Gray re-examines the unique brilliance of their debut album in a 30th anniversary review.
Stornoway return for two intimate pre-Xmas shows

Nov 14, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Martin Gray

Oxford’s much loved indie-folk troubadours Stornoway are set to return with a new album later this month.
All Edinburgh Theatre.com

Nov 13, 2024 | alledinburghtheatre.com | Martin Gray

★★★★☆ No woePlayhouse: Tue 12 – Sat 16 Nov 2024Review by Martin GrayThere’s no woe to this story of Juliet without her Romeo, as Shakespeare’s most famous heroine gets solo billing in the girl power musical & Juliet which hits the Playhouse this week. What if Juliet hadn’t died at the end of Shakespeare’s most famous love story? That’s the intriguing premise behind this award-winning jukebox musical.
an obituary and tribute

Nov 5, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Martin Gray

Martin Gray looks back at the charmed and stellar career of one of the most distinguished composers, arrangers and producers of our time: Quincy Jones, who passed away on November 3rd 2024 aged 91. He was one of the greatest and most singularly influential figures of the last 65+ years, a titanic name in the world of music, film and media. A true legend and iconic presence in every sense of the word.
All Edinburgh Theatre.com

Nov 2, 2024 | alledinburghtheatre.com | Martin Gray

★★★☆☆ It really is a screamThe Brunton at Loretto Theatre: Thurs 31 Oct – Sat 2 Nov 2024Review by Martin GrayAmerica’s funniest family of wacky weirdos – sorry, Munsters – rise again as Loretto Theatre hosts the Brunton’s Youth programme production of The Addams Family. It’s an old, old story. Boy meets girl. Girl is a ghoul who lives with her creepy, cooky, mysterious and spooky family in a haunted mansion in New York’s Central Park.
Humdrum : Every Heaven

Oct 27, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Martin Gray

Humdrum : Every HeavenSlumberland RecordsVinyl | CDReleased 18th October 2024Chicago dream poppers HUMDRUM’s debut album Every Heaven is a joyous and sprightly affair crammed with memorable hooks and chiming jangly guitars galore – conjuring up the very best of the 1980s-90s UK indie. Climb aboard for the ride and revisit the heady days when cassette tapes, 7″ flexi-discs and crudely xeroxed DIY fanzines were king. There was much that was equally feted and maligned about 1980s indie pop in the UK.