Alfie : A Word In Your Ear
Yes, it was all city round these parts when Alfie were lads. The Manchester music tradition they were brought up in was, for the most part, resolutely urban: one of power, corruption and lies; panic in the streets; and, most notoriously,...
Alfie : If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing
The very concept of a New Acoustic Movement sounds like a Maoist re-education policy, deprogramming listeners of any attachment to such modern fripperies as dance, metal, hip-hop - hell, electricity - and hanging a big placard bearing the head...
Alfie : The Alfie EP
Poor old Alfie. Victims of one of Steven Wells' frequent near-homicidal grudges - from their winsome moniker right down to their jingly-jangly little cotton grey indie socks - it does seem as if they were conceived purely with the intention of...
JJ72 / Amen / Alfie / Starsailor: London Astoria
The filth and the fury? That's to come later with the epic and much-anticipated stand-off between Casey Chaos of Amen and Nigel Nice (aka Mark Greaney) of choirboy rockers JJ72. First, however, the news. Which can only mean Starsailor....
Manchester Contact Theatre
Frontman Lee Gorton would disagree. After all, when Alfie last played London, he actually got off his stool. For a bit. But, believe me, cavalier seating arrangements aside, Alfie don't rock out, they purr, stretch and briefly scamper about,...
London Highbury Union Chapel
A double bass, a French horn and a singer whose delivery and bone structure are already proven winners. And - wait for it - guitars . World, meet the |ber -trendy, post-'lectronic Twisted Nerve label's secret weapon. And it's not a sub-Badly...
