“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
“You’re the Kind Of Guy” By Hella Cholla
The male and the female? A harmonious blend of the ying and the yang, or polar opposites, from different planets, diametrically opposed in every way? Or is it all a myth in order to sell books about woman being from Venus and men being obsessed with Uranus? [...]
May 3, 2008
Categories: Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Music, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music . Tags: Hannah Yadi, Hella Cholla, I-tunes, Indie, Leeds, Pop, Singers, Will Betts, You're The Kind Of Guy . Author: vonpip . Comments: 1 Comment
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
“Come With Me ” By And What Will Be Left Of Them
The Band : And What Will Be Left Of Them
The Line Up : Red White -Vocals, Blue Peter -Vocals /Guitar, Chris Wemyss-Drums, Matt Pooler- Keyboards, Joe Beech-Bass
If you say the word “Worcester” people will immediately shout back “Sauce”, thats a fact. Yes indeedy [...]
March 24, 2008
Categories: And What Will Be Left Of Them, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Music, Music Sites, Pop Art, Punk, Steve Lamacq, VPME, Von Pip, Worcester . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 4 Comments
“Rockstar” By Kovak
What is it about Brighton eh? So much good music seems to be coming out of that place lately, every other decent new band that crosses my path seem to be from or connected to the area. I personally can only assume that the bizarre habit Brighton and Hove Bus Company employ [...]
March 21, 2008
Categories: Abby Harman, Brighton, Club Kovak, Darren Bray, Electro Pop, Female Vocals, I Love The Dancefloor, Karl Bray, Kovak, Music, Music Sites, New Music, Pop, Pop Music, Toby East . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 7 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
With news that Michael Jackson is considering touring with his brothers Neal Zetter joins the VPME to offer some words of advice
“Are you black
Are you Caucasian
Are you Chinese
Are you Asian
Or are you the start of an alien invasion
Michael Jackson
I always preferred you when
You wore a tank top
And sung Ben
But something happened
Something snapped
Now you’re not [...]
November 21, 2007
Categories: Comedy, Humour, King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, Music, Music Sites, Neal Zetter, Poetry, Pop, Pop Music . . Author: vonpip . Comments: No Comments
“I’m Not Always So Stupid” (from the “George Best- Plus” Re-release) By The Wedding Present
The Wedding Present- George Best Anniversary Tour -Liverpool Academy 27/10/2007
It’s hard to believe its twenty years since the release of The Wedding Present’s seminal “George Best” album, listening to it nowadays you realise what a classic collection of songs it [...]
November 1, 2007
Categories: Cinerama, David Gedge, Everone Thinks He Looks Daft, George Best, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, John Peel, Live, Liverpool, Liverpool Uni, Manchester, Manchester bands, Music, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music, The Wedding Present . . Author: vonpip . Comments: No Comments