Hard-Fi - 'Killer Sounds'
In 1949, Arthur Miller's seminal play Death Of A Salesman called time on the popular cultural dominance of the male. For the first time, the Y chromosome was outed as having the propensity to be needy, uncertain and a bit pathetic. In 2011, we...
Hard-Fi/Carbon Silicon
If you drink enough Jack Daniel’s you’ll enjoy any band you see afterwards. However, although the drinks giant has laid on this evening’s entertainment at a beautiful, picturesque venue close to their distillery near Nashville, the bands...
Hard-Fi/The Lost Boys/The Rushes: KOKO, London,...
They could inject them with a mutated anti-cancer virus until they turn into rabid, razortoothed psychozombies with a taste for the flesh of Will Smith. They could make them watch Girls Aloud mud-wrestling for hours. But scientists have concluded...
Hard-Fi
Nice to see Hard-Fi ditching their toe-curling forays into sounding exactly like Carter USM in favour of coming up with something a little more, well, Hard-Fi-ish this time round. And by that we mean it sounds almost exactly like a Robbie Williams...
The Answering Machine
A year ago, this Manc trio were the toast of A&R-ville, playing their drum machine-backed indiepop in front of fluttering chequebooks. Given that they’re a band that sound like a playschool Strokes playing Bis songs — with all the commercial...
Hard-Fi
Richard Archer was wary of placing this on ‘Stars Of CCTV’. His reticence was well-placed, however, if only because the band would later use it to buoy up their mediocre second album. Brassy and belligerent where the rest of ‘Once Upon A...
Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West
First, some perspective. The suburbs – those semi-mythical cultural outposts built upon red bricks, re-mortgages and dreams of retirement that have long irked the ire of anyone with the misfortune to come from them – aren’t actually all that...
Hard-Fi
You’ve got to love the suburbs. Well, not actually love the Hemel Hempsteads, Croydons or Brentwoods themselves, because let’s face it, they’re excruciatingly dull towns of identikit shopping centres and awful ’60s housing. No, the places...
Hard-Fi/Boy Kill Boy/Duels/Distophia:...
Cast your eyes across the ShockWaves NME Award Shows 2006 line-ups and you’ll find proponents of 1920s wigs, Rimmel eyeliner, ultra-rare Megadeth T-shirts, gypsy rags and rigid band uniforms. But tonight is the show where the ordinary bloke...
Hard-Fi: Astoria, London: Friday, December 9
Blue spotlights strafe the Astoria on the hunt for reprobates, deviants and social malcontents on the loose, finding about a thousand. We’re on every midnight street corner, back alley and Morrisons car park of every pedestrianised satellite...
