The Next Nine Years - You Live, I Learn (single/ Probation) By Steve Rudd

Debut singles don't get much better than this double-A side belter from this kick-ass quartet. Lead track You Live, I Learn is ball-busting melodic rock, that sets a breakneck pace. Thankfully, all the guitars and lung-busting vocals are perfectly decipherable: It's over now, I've given up; It's over now - what's done is done.

The music buoyantly bleeds with the passionate heart of soul of Funeral For A Friend's brand of Emo-rock - and just like FFAF, TNNY are compellingly dynamic as the heavy rock of You Live, I Learn proceeds to give way to a clever section of half-spoken, Choose Life-styled narrative. The b-side in So Bask In Your Glory demands just as much attention due to a heavyweight guitar chug and yet more self-deprecating lyrics from the incredibly versatile vocalist: You will find nothing in my shallow mind. So now we know. Still, their music is highly recommended. 7/10 www.thenextnineyears.com

Album Reviews - Sidewinder CD By Nick Quantrill
	With their high quality and energetic live shows, Sidewinder are regarded as one of the finer Hull bands. Looking as comfortable playing to a packed house at the Kingston Communications Stadium as they do playing in the local pub, Sidewinder have demonstrated their ability to capture the Read more...

Single Reviews The Concretes - Seems Fine (single/ EMI) By Steve Rudd
	If you want to feel refreshed and plain good about life, then it's imperative that Stockholm outfit The Concretes are checked out ASAP. Laying claim to almost as many band members as The Polyphonic Spree, there are eight of them, coolly fronted by sultry vocalist Victoria Bergsman. Read more...

Album Reviews - Silver Sun - Disappear Here (Invisible Hands Records) By Nick Quantrill
	Back in the days of Brit Pop, when guitar bands desperately aped Oasis, one band was bucking this trend by trying to assert some individuality and kick back against the corporate sea of mediocrity. Despite several chart-hits and an ever growing live following, Silver Sun were amongst the Read more...

Album Reviews - Turismo - Too Tall For Fashion By Jason Karlson
	There are some amazing bands that simply cannot be contained on a shiny silver disk. Fonda 500's CD releases are always breathtakingly energetic and creative but they still can't capture the sheer vigour and unchecked energy of their live appearances. Turismo are another band who Read more...

Album Reviews Richard Stevenson - Promises Promises By Daniel Laney
	I must admit getting motivated in the morning is one of the hardest things I have to achieve. Outside its cold and wet, mushy decaying leaves lie everywhere and a shed load of bills await you at the front porch and you know full well that the postman has taken great pleasure wedging as much Read more...

Single Reviews - Gomez - Sweet Virginia (single/ Virgin) By Steve Rudd
	The Gomez guys have long impressed the nation with their inspired ability to effectively fuse all manners of different musical genres together to form one thoroughly satisfying whole. Whether they're incorporating elements of heart-breaking blues, crafty jazz Read more...

Album Reviews - The Supatones - Unity Ave (Do The Dog) By Steve Rudd
	Living up to their name in the most impeccable manner imaginable, this Hull-based band releases its astonishing debut album with an accompanying, nationwide tour to promote the beauty. For the best part of November and the first half of December these Read more...

Single Reviews Camera - Hurt (single/ My Kung Fu) By Steve Rudd Release Date: 22nd November 2004.
	Think of all the anthemic rock bands that Wales has loudly and proudly produced over the years such as The Manics, The Stereophonics and The Alarm (to name just a few), and then think again, for here is a new quartet in the form of Camera that are hacking out a truly Read more...

Album Reviews - Tapewyrm Records Compilation - Segments Volume 1 (12-track album) By Steve Rudd
	Far from being just another compilation album of half-rate tracks by bands most people have never heard of, this Tapewyrm release provides the best opportunity imaginable for the listener to get to know the label's six acts a whole lot better. OK, so the bands aren't that well Read more...

Album Reviews - - The Alarm Live in the Poppyfields (DVD/CD Dual Release/Snapper Music) By Steve Rudd
	In all honesty, I am totally addicted to - and utterly enthralled by - the music of Mike Peters. Mike, for those who might not know, is now - and has always been - the frontman and singing-songwriting genius for Welsh band The Alarm... a band set-up that Mike recently re-formed, with a Read more...

Album Reviews - The Clauberg Opera - The Death of This City By Steve Rudd
	Yet another fantastically original Hull-based band to get hugely excited about, this young and thoroughly refreshing trio is not to be ignored... especially not with the type of manifesto that they are proudly presenting. In this invigorating instance they come armed Read more...

Album Reviews - The 59 Violets - Prime Numbers By Steve Rudd
	First things first, a bit of vital number crunching: the debut album from North Lincolnshire's va-va-vooming 59 Violets four-piece is 40 minutes long and spread over 11 fantastic songs. Each and every track is moulded around some superb melodies, as these boys wield both the pop Read more...

Single Reviews Torso Horse - The Invisible Event (eight-track album/ Native) By Steve Rudd Release Date: Nov 1st 2004
	Over the past four years, Bridlington band Torso Horse has truly - and deservedly - dominated the Goth-Metal scene in East Yorkshire in style. This uncompromising eight-track release is their second album, and the eagerly anticipated follow-up to their rapturously Read more...

Single Reviews - Ox - Blood (mini-album/ Co-Pop) By Steve Rudd Release Date: November 1st 2004.
	Oh I do like to be beside the seaside when super-talented acoustic-based duos in the shape of Ox materialise from towns such as Brighton, as Ox band members in multi-instrumentalists Jim Oxborrow and John Etkin-Bell have. Jim sings, with his sensitive voice being Read more...