From Water Slides to Stage Dives: Rockaway Beach, Bognor Regis Words & Pics by Captain Stavros A three-day buffet of brilliance, bafflement, and battered ear defenders As the minions shuffled back to work, trudging through poor...
21.01.2026
Paper Kites If You Go There, I Hope You Find It By Captain Stavros Golden Tones and Quiet Certainty After 15 years of quiet consistency, Australia’s The Paper Kites have become something of an emotional utility band. Their seventh studio album, If You Go There, I Hope You Find It, doesn’t attempt to reinvent that role — and that’s very much the point. From the opening moments, the record is steeped in the band’s trademark golden tones, the same sun-blea...
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15.11.2024
Lewis Spybey Lewis Spybey By Jac Taylor PSYCHEDELIC LUCID DREAMS?! Yeah… the Lewis Spybey self-titled new release is a place to be. Within the ambient, ambitious coral of an album cover, lies an ocean bed filled with a “new sound” fiasco. Imagine a microwave buzz as a backbeat, then, shift that into full gear with a dark ominous sound sphere. That’s Lewis Spybey! The 38-minute track list begins with called ‘Castle Neptune’. Whilst drifting away from th...
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11.11.2024
Hum – Inlet (2020) By Johnno Thanks to social media, and especially Facebook, the act of planning and executing high school reunions have become obsolete. To run into old friends, acquaintances, and the like only to catch up on their vacation posts, birth and marriage announcements, bullshit in the news and reference Simpsons memes now – feels mostly redundant. You already know what these jamokes are up to, so why get dressed up and be in the same room...
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Umarells One More Day By Jac Taylor Packed with dreamy, hypnotic vocals, Umarells release their new EP on November 8. One More Day is a revolutionary pushback...
Odonis Odonis ICON By Johnno It is currently mid-June, temperatures in the mid to high 20 Celsiuses, and there hasn't been a drop of rain for the better pa...
Rockaway Beach @ Butlin’s, Bognor Regis - Day Three We must admit that Public Image Ltd had such an impact on us that sleep was hard to find last night. We were pumped for hours after they finished and...
Singles that Mingle With Captain Stavros Party Dozen – Mad Rooter Mad Rooter/Ghost Rider Out Now Via City Slang Sounds like a proper tune for stomping around in th...
Singles That Mingle With Captain Stavros Lala Lala - Does This Go Faster? Sounds easy on the surface, but layers beneath are deep. {youtube} https://www.y...
