ALIVE NATURALSOUND ON THE ROAD!
Punk-blues fans delight as keyboard maestro JAMES LEG and triumphant Northern Irish guitar/drums duo THE BONNEVILLES continue their UK headline tour this month. – VIVE LE ROCK HERE
☮GOSPELPEACH featured in SHINDIG! : “In the Studio”
☛LEFT LANE CRUISER premieres “The Point Is Over Flowing” via NEW NOISE MAGAZINE
Song Premiere: Left Lane Cruiser – “The Point Is Over Flowing”. – NEW NOISE MAGAZINE HERE
Nice interview with The BONNEVILLES via GIGGING North Ireland
A beautiful, balmy May evening in Belfast marked the first night of The Bonnevilles’ Ireland/UK tour with their Alive Records label mate James Leg. I was lucky enough to score an interview with Bonnevilles front man Andy McGibbon who led me through a labyrinth of corridors to an upper room in the legendary Empire Music Hall. – READ THE INTERVIEW HERE
8/10 review of LEFT LANE CRUISER “Claw Machine Wizard” from VIVE LE ROCK
8/10 review of LEFT LANE CRUISER “Claw Machine Wizard” from BLUES ROCK REVIEW
On Claw Machine Wizard they deliver an album full of the catchy chord progressions and repetitive trance inducing rhythmic constructions. – READ THE REVIEW HERE
Nice review of The BONNEVILLES “Listen For Tone” from VIVE LE ROCK
Great review of HEATH GREEN and The MAKESHIFTERS from UBER ROCK
One of those albums that is an unexpected joy to hear from the first tune, and furthermore one of those albums that you want your friends to love and the whole world to hear. The fact that it’s an unreconstructed yet thoroughly modern southern rock album just adds to the allure. – READ THE REVIEW HERE
★★★★★ 5 beers for LEFT LANE CRUISER “Claw Machine Wizard” from I94 BAR
The guitar playing is memorable; there are riffs everywhere that just make you want to dance, baby, and that’s what this album is all about. It’s dirty blues played without too much thought… heads down, bums up and the duo just rip the shit out of each tune, constantly bouncing off each other. To hear them at work is just wonderful. – READ THE REVIEW HERE
9/10 review of The BONNEVILLES “Listen For Tone” from MAXIMUM VOLUME MUSIC
In the late 80s growing up, there was pretty much nothing we loved more than making a compilation record. The holy grail was one side of a C-90 TDK tape (anyone under the age of 40 can ask their parents – or Wikipedia) of a best of one of your favourite bands.
It’s great to see that such an idea has been updated for the modern age – because that is basically “Listen For Tone” in a nutshell. 10 glorious songs that originally appeared on The Bonnevilles early pair of records, and if the pretext to all this is that it is the first time they’ve ever been out on vinyl, then the day we need a pretext to listen to the wonderful music that the pair create, frankly is the day we pack in.
Making perfect sense given that it is ten years since their formation and coming hot on the heels of the outright brilliant “Arrow Pierce My Heart” record, “…..Tone” is a timely reminder – not that such a thing is needed – that no one does it quite like Andrew McGibbon Jnr and Chris McMullan.
Other bands do the duo thing, other bands do the primal blues thing, but no one takes it to quite the places these two do, and no one has the gift for melody that they possess. – READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW HERE