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Jake Bugg Album Review
If you mentioned Bob Dylan to a class of 16 year olds a minority may perhaps recognise the name and associate it as being boring or old music. Young folk singer Jake Bugg isn't any ordinary teenager. Brought up passionately inspired by the likes of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, it’s refreshing to hear a mellow country tone in is singing. Growing up surrounded by a generation obsessed with senseless, overrated pop music, who would have thought he is a 17 year old boy from Clifton estate in Nottingham?
Take a moment to buckle up for his debut album Lightning Bolt that takes you on a trip down memory lane. Initially it’s like listening to a wise man effortlessly expressing his heartbreak, loneliness and troubled past with nothing but a pipe and a rusty guitar. Nevertheless Bugg is quite the opposite, tales of his experiences coming of age pulse through his song writing.
Despite his country, swinging sixties tone, Bugg still manages to stay relevant to the rest of his generation. His song ‘Two Fingers’ is a maturing, troubled teenager putting two fingers up to yesterday when he reminisces on his experiences hanging around the Clifton council estate with his mates, a bottle of white lightening, popping pills and smoking a joint. Pushing his Clifton experiences aside, he obtains more romantic tracks on the album including ‘Some Place’. You can hear the agony in Bugg’s lyrics and practically hear the sound of his heart being ripped to shreds whilst he sings “I’ll be down on my knees begging you.”
It is just the beginning of Bugg’s career and already he has performed on stage with The Stone Roses and Noel Gallagher two of his favourite artists. It is a challenge to match similar modern artists with Bugg especially artist’s still only 18 years of age. His music is a gift wrapped in nostalgia, discovered from Glastonbury festival in the 1960’s. Although screaming teenage girls have taken a high interest in acoustic acts, such as Ed Sheeran, there is undoubtedly a gap in the market for Bugg’s intriguing story telling.
If you mentioned Bob Dylan to a class of 16 year olds a minority may perhaps recognise the name and associate it as being boring or old music. Young folk singer Jake Bugg isn't any ordinary teenager. Brought up passionately inspired by the likes of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, it’s refreshing to hear a mellow country tone in is singing. Growing up surrounded by a generation obsessed with senseless, overrated pop music, who would have thought he is a 17 year old boy from Clifton estate in Nottingham?
Take a moment to buckle up for his debut album Lightning Bolt that takes you on a trip down memory lane. Initially it’s like listening to a wise man effortlessly expressing his heartbreak, loneliness and troubled past with nothing but a pipe and a rusty guitar. Nevertheless Bugg is quite the opposite, tales of his experiences coming of age pulse through his song writing.
Despite his country, swinging sixties tone, Bugg still manages to stay relevant to the rest of his generation. His song ‘Two Fingers’ is a maturing, troubled teenager putting two fingers up to yesterday when he reminisces on his experiences hanging around the Clifton council estate with his mates, a bottle of white lightening, popping pills and smoking a joint. Pushing his Clifton experiences aside, he obtains more romantic tracks on the album including ‘Some Place’. You can hear the agony in Bugg’s lyrics and practically hear the sound of his heart being ripped to shreds whilst he sings “I’ll be down on my knees begging you.”
It is just the beginning of Bugg’s career and already he has performed on stage with The Stone Roses and Noel Gallagher two of his favourite artists. It is a challenge to match similar modern artists with Bugg especially artist’s still only 18 years of age. His music is a gift wrapped in nostalgia, discovered from Glastonbury festival in the 1960’s. Although screaming teenage girls have taken a high interest in acoustic acts, such as Ed Sheeran, there is undoubtedly a gap in the market for Bugg’s intriguing story telling.
Biffy Clyro Review
The tattooed, hairy trio, from the Scottish town of
Kilmarnock celebrate their sixth studio album Opposites in style with once
again an impressive sold out tour, if you haven't guessed yet it's of course
the Biffy Clyro the captains of alternative rock.
Behind Simon Neil's bare chest, the symbolic, mystical tree from their latest album cover vigorously flashes to the heavy riffs of Stinging Belle, the first single from Opposites. It's the opening song at Bournemouth International Centre, being the smallest venue on their stadium tour, it resembles a tin which is full of sweaty sardine-like Biffy fans.
You only have to glance around the overflowing venue to notice how the Biffy rash has spread over the last few years. They may not be capable of keeping their shirts on for over five minutes, but they are definitely capable of performing an unforgettable show.
Tranquility forms in the atmosphere as the venue dramatically switches to calm, the mood change is an effortless ability Biffy have always had when playing live. A choir of a thousand audiences voices take over from Biffy as they sing from their hearts as you would when nobody’s watching, to the chorus of Machines and God and Satan. Biffy effortlessly takes the gig down a pace by reaching out to the audience with these ballads.
After an eventful 2 hours on stage with a mixture of songs from not only Opposites but classic Biffy, Living is Problem Because Everyone Dies and Glitter Trauma, the crowd chants for an encore and they are of course treated with 3 more songs, the perfect choices to close with. The tree grows a spine in the background as Simon rises on a podium meaning only one thing, it's time for the last song and with no surprise Simon takes a bite out of a mountain range and the lyrics "I am the mountains, I am the sea, you can't take that away from me." echo's amongst fans.
Now rounding off their sold out tour at the London O2, Biffy Clyro successfully maintain their title of Best Live Act. Don't miss out on Biffy live this summer on the headline stage at Reading and Leeds Festival.
Behind Simon Neil's bare chest, the symbolic, mystical tree from their latest album cover vigorously flashes to the heavy riffs of Stinging Belle, the first single from Opposites. It's the opening song at Bournemouth International Centre, being the smallest venue on their stadium tour, it resembles a tin which is full of sweaty sardine-like Biffy fans.
You only have to glance around the overflowing venue to notice how the Biffy rash has spread over the last few years. They may not be capable of keeping their shirts on for over five minutes, but they are definitely capable of performing an unforgettable show.
Tranquility forms in the atmosphere as the venue dramatically switches to calm, the mood change is an effortless ability Biffy have always had when playing live. A choir of a thousand audiences voices take over from Biffy as they sing from their hearts as you would when nobody’s watching, to the chorus of Machines and God and Satan. Biffy effortlessly takes the gig down a pace by reaching out to the audience with these ballads.
After an eventful 2 hours on stage with a mixture of songs from not only Opposites but classic Biffy, Living is Problem Because Everyone Dies and Glitter Trauma, the crowd chants for an encore and they are of course treated with 3 more songs, the perfect choices to close with. The tree grows a spine in the background as Simon rises on a podium meaning only one thing, it's time for the last song and with no surprise Simon takes a bite out of a mountain range and the lyrics "I am the mountains, I am the sea, you can't take that away from me." echo's amongst fans.
Now rounding off their sold out tour at the London O2, Biffy Clyro successfully maintain their title of Best Live Act. Don't miss out on Biffy live this summer on the headline stage at Reading and Leeds Festival.
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