“If You Care” (Demo) By Doll And The Kicks
Am I a Sexist? This question has been bothering me since it was pointed out that I seem to interview more female fronted bands than male. When I was a young lad I had an implausibly huge poster of Debbie Harry on my bedroom wall, so I [...]
June 3, 2008
Categories: Indie Music, Indie Pop, Music, Music Review, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music . Tags: Add new tag, Brighton music, Debbie Harry, Doll And The Kicks, Female Singers, Gwen Stefani, Indie, Indie Pop, Music, Pop Music, Sexy, Von Pip . Author: vonpip . Comments: 5 Comments
Righty Oh, its review time, and again, we have tempted some fine musicians into the murky world of The VPME. The glitterati of popular music agreed to take time out from partying hard with celeb types like Jane McDonald and Colleen Nolan and meet up at Von Pip Towers. Sadly we were [...]
April 19, 2008
Categories: Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Music, Music Review, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music, The Pipettes . Tags: Laura Marling, Screaming Ballerinas, Mystery jets, Nick Cave, The Last Shadow Puppets, Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys, The Long Blondes, The Lieutenants Mistress, Slow Down Tallahassee, Dogwood, Von Pip, Alastair Dougall, Rose Dougall, Joe Lean, And What Will Be Left Of Them . Author: vonpip . Comments: 9 Comments
The Fabulous, gorgeous VOTE SHOW PONY Interviewed By Andy Von Pip April 2008
April 17, 2008
Categories: Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Music, Music Review, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music . Tags: Beautiful, Sorcha Hawkins, Vote Showpony . Author: vonpip . Comments: 5 Comments
“Faces Going Places” By Jose Vanders
Londoners are famous for having a good old knees up around the “old Joanna” (piano) with their “china plates” (mates). In fact if you were to believe the portrayal of Londoners as painted by “comedic” screenwriter Richard Curtis you’d probably expect to walk into a London pub and be [...]
March 25, 2008
Categories: Eddie Harrison, Indie, Indie Music, Jose Vanders, Kate Bush, Kate Nash, Music, Music Review, Music Sites, Transactional Language . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 6 Comments
Lush’s Miki Berenyi “The Interview 2008″ and her personal photo album Part 3( Part 1 is here ,and part 2 here )
Miki Interview 1996
Photo 33
Miki: “Me with Ian Astbury (The Cult) after our gig at the Electric Ballroom in 1996. Chris was an absolutely MASSIVE fan of The Cult (well, back to [...]
February 1, 2008
Categories: Brit Pop, Chris Acland, Cocteau Twins, Emma Anderson, Eric Matthews, Ian Astbury, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Ivor Sims, Jesus And Mary Chain, Lollapolooza 1992, Lovelife, Miki Berenyi, Miki Berenyi Wallpapers, Music Review, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music, Robin Guthrie, Shoe-gaze, Shoegaze, Sienking Ships, Sub Pop, The Cult, Von Pip, We Miss Miki . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 15 Comments
I don’t know about you but I can’t tolerate music reviews which prattle on about things like the “zeitgeist” and “ennui” yet singularly fail to let the reader know if they actually liked a certain album, song or single. I also hate this modern habit of foisting genius or legendary status onto people, who quite [...]
January 12, 2008
Categories: American Demo, Julia Indelicate, Music, Music Review, Pop, Pop Music, Pop review, Simon Indelicate, The Indelicates, The Indelicates "American Demo" Review, Uk Indie Music, Weekender records . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 11 Comments
“Go Faster Stripes” By Kat Flint
Okay, so we’ve all heard it before - hotly tipped young Scottish singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar is going to be the next big thing - but with Kat Flint it’s going to be a serious miscarriage of musical justice if she isn’t. The first single from forthcoming album Dirty [...]
December 7, 2007
Categories: "Go Faster Stripes", Albino Record, Dirty Birds, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Kat Flint, Music, Music Review, Pop Music, Pop review, Scotland . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 1 Comment
We are grumpy for no good reason!!!!! Yes it’s the VPME’s “Time of the month” …. …when we look back over the last four week period and cast a critical eye over the new musical releases.
This months guest panel comprises
Marit Bergman : One Of Sweden’s biggest stars, award winning Marit has now moved [...]
December 2, 2007
Categories: Avril Lavigne, Bateman, Bec Newman, Ben Faircloth, Bert Wood, Beth Gibson, David Heulun, Dogwood, Female Singers, Gerri Halliwell, Good Shoes, Humour, Ian Brown, Janice Dickinson, Kaiser Chiefs, Marit Bergman, Music, Music Review, New Music, Paramore, Pop, Pop Music, Pop review, Posh Spice, Pretty, Raisin Cakes, Remi Nicole, Rodney Marsh, The Hot Puppies, The VPME Review, The Young Playthings, USA, Vincent Vincent, Von Pip, the Spice Girls . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 8 Comments
“The opening track of The Royal We is a little misleading. ‘Back and Forth Forever’ doesn’t quite seem to fit the rest of the album, but when a band only has ten songs to their name (including two covers and one b-side on their first and only single), they probably can’t afford to be choosy [...]
November 4, 2007
Categories: Domino Records, I Hate Rock N Roll, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Jihae Simmons, Music, Music Review, The Royal We, The Royal We Debut Album . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 3 Comments
Editors Live -Liverpool University 23/10/2007
From the moment Tom Smith’s dark brooding vocals echo through the darkness and launch into “An End Has A Start” you just know this is going to be a special night. This is my first experience of an Editors gig and I wondered if they would live up [...]
October 30, 2007
Categories: All Sparks, Editors, End Has A Start, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Live, Liverpool Uni, Munich, Music, Music Review, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music, The Back Room, Tom Smith . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 1 Comment