Arch Garrison'The Bitter Lay'Believers Roast Records If you didn't know much about a band or their music, you might decide that their name and album titleheld clues as to what a release sounded like. I've done this for years, and I'd estimate with around 40%accuracy,...
It was early 2003, I was 21, and I was working, in the loosest sense of the word, for a small online music magazine. We covered the more extreme and esoteric end of the electronic, industrial and metal scenes. You probably know what I mean, an unlistenable mix of...
In the 14 tracks comprising Spiritual Data composer and pianist Jimmy Galvin evokes a sense of a mindful journey with no obvious beginning or end; that is to say the listener finds his or her self almost awakening in a timeless place where there is a sense...
Pauline Murray'Elemental'Polestar Records By anyone's reckoning two decades is a bit of a long time, and it has taken an actual 20years for Pauline Murray to bring us us her first released music since 2000's 'Halloween'ep. Sessions for 'Elemental' began in France in...
I don't know when or where I first met Martin Stephenson but I do know that I had the good fortune to be in the band that gave him his first gig. Martins musical career took off with a series of fine albums released on The Kitchenware label. There were nationwide...
There’s something going on, I’m not sure it’s what people have paid their hard earned for, but the rising tension is impossible to ignore. The singer in the support act had been playing on the crowd’s impatience. Taunting and winding them up mercilessly. Now all of a...
Musician, recording artist, author ,poet and film maker are all terms that are applicable to Jude Rawlins. He was also the founder of the brit -altrock/shoegaze outfit Subterraneans who put out a series of albums through out the 2000's with the 2007 Soul Mass Transit...
A Life In Indie. Back in 2018 we spoke with Nightingales frontman Rob Lloyd about writing, recording in Europe, Pulp, the Fall, and their ongoing association with comedian Stewart Lee. We thought that it was too good to keep in the archives and we also...
For over a decade Japanese trio The Molice have been perfecting their own take on garage punk and other associated musical styles. Yuzuru, Rinko and Paro took a few minutes from their schedule to share some thoughts and ideas with Deviation Street. You formed the band...
One of the beautiful things in life is discovering bands & albums which has been going on outside of your own bubble . One such band for Deviation Street has been the Berlin based CAMERA. Fortunately Jon Gordon caught up with keyboard player Timm Brockmann to...
It wasn’t that long ago that Sarah Harrington reviewed the release of Jimmy Galvins’s solo piano CD A Million Seconds Makes 11 Days . A beautiful album of warmth and tranquillity that flows seamlessly and leaves you wanting more at...
Formed in 2010 Camera were regarded as the “Krautrock Guerrilla” starting out as a three piece, playing to friends and commuters the down in the labyrinths of the U Bahn with two guitars, a tom tom, snare and a set of amps before progressing on to the streets and...