Young Knives
Knobbly knees, Madness, braces, Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards, bouncy castles, the Monster Raving Loony Party – doesn’t it all make you want to shoot yourself in the face? English eccentricity is surely the saddest facet of parochial Britain,...
Young Knives
Eeek! It’s the sound of indistinct indie warblings from rock’s most inconsequential accountants. If the sound of The Pigeon Detectives made us feel as if we were wading through a pile of glistening CDs spelling out the word ‘mediocrity’,...
The Young Knives: Are Dead
The Young Knives didn�t just walk out of a branch of Barbour & Sons and into our lives in 2005. By then they�d already spent several years honing their craft, recording this mini-album for Oxford label Shifty Disco in 2002. All the...
Shockwaves NME Awards Show: The Young Knives,...
The Young Knives have been noticeable by their absence recently, but on tonight’s evidence they having been laying about idle. There’s two brand new slabs of jitter-punk brilliance and Henry Dartnell even finds time to call his brother House...
The Young Knives: Voices Of Animals And Men
At first glance, Ashby-De-La-Zouch’s Young Knives are so sensitive and angular they look like talking heads from I Love Mid-2004. They’re arch to the point of falling over backwards, have been produced by Andy Gill from Gang Of Four, and are...
The Young Knives: Barfly, Cardiff: Monday,...
Oxford’s The Young Knives are not your typical indie heartthrobs. Trussed up in suits, bassist The House Of Lords securing glasses on his head with an elastic band, from the front row it looks more like the Two Ronnies stumbled in drunk and...
