Fret-Buzz Music Magazine : V2.2 September 2016

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temples of youth charts the only isle of wight music chart

who’s who James Gilby | Silas Gregory

reviews tim arnold | victorious festival | last chance city | temples of youth | faux

music reviews | photos gig guide

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in This issue 2 uhub 4 IOW CHARTS who’s who 6 Silas Gregory 16 James Gilby 10 introducing Temples of Youth 24 reviews

Editor: Jake Priddle editor@fret-buzz.net

Live Reviews 28 Tim Arnold 30 Spoken Word 32 Temples of Youth 34 Last chance city 36 Faux EP Launch 38 Victorious 40 Listings 1

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iow music chart This month sees far fewer music releases than during the beginning of the summer - perhaps everyone is out enjoying the last of the sunshine! As a result the bottom of the charts has been seeing fewer plays, meaning chart debuts for acts such as Chloe North and Jazzy Heath. Notable new releases include Greg Barnes’ track ‘Early Summer’ and Dayita’s ‘Called For Help’. Perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly is also Lucas Hardy at this month’s number one spot! It seems Grade 2 have finally been pushed back, but will it last? email: charts@fret-buzz.net

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Who’s Who

y r o g e r G s a l Si S @Chalkpitrecords

ilas Gregory is the man behind Chalkpit Records - a new indie label from the Isle of Wight working to promote and release new music.

Oh, and he puts on some pretty awesome gig nights. We fired over some sweet Q’s to find out a little more about Silas. Here’s his A’s.

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Tell us about yourself

WHAT UP FRET BUZZ!!! I’m Silas, and I’m here to shake the music industry up. I started Chalkpit Records back in May 2015, probably the best decision I have ever made. Every since that day, I haven’t looked back only forward. I know its only going to get bigger & better so I hope I can win you over to join the party with us.

What is Chalkpit Records and what does it do

Chalkpit Records is a Independent Label which thrives to flourish the Music scene on the Isle of Wight & hopefully the south coast. Its our home & where I first fell in love with music when i was just a small pup going to festivals & seeing my drum teacher play with his indie band at local venues, it just inspired me to be apart of it all.

I have so much time for the Island but unfortunately the music scene has dwindled over the last 3/4 years. But not for long I can assure you.

We are working with artists from the ground up supporting the whole creative process. In the present industry you can’t just be great musicians you have to be a lot more than that. Which is why I am so passionate about making sure bands are nurtured & can develop into the type of artist they want to be one step at a time.

Along side nurturing artists the label is developing the live scene which is the life & soul of any artist. Cutting your teeth live is vital if your an artists that wants to tour outside the Isle of Wight. This is why I am creating more opportunities for artists to play live with our Chalkpit Records Promotional live music nights. We have already hosted 3 successful live music events on the island this year. Each one has been amazing & the local support has been incredible exceeding my exceptions. Without you we wouldn’t be able to create these night for artists. So the biggest thank you goes out to anyone that has already been to one of our events.

How many people are involved?

Wow, I can’t put a number on it. Everyone that has ever supported the label whether that’s liking or sharing a posts on our social media,

attending one of our live music events or even wearing one of our Chalkpit Records T-shirts. You might not think it but you are the people that have been involved from day one & your support has kept the label going & is constantly inspiring me to develop the label even further. I have met some incredibly talented people on the island through starting this label & i hope it continues, so thank you.

What juicy stuff have you got coming up?

The Label has had a busy summer working on new releases expected to drop in the autumn/ winter months, which we are incredibly excited about. We are also deep in planning our next run of live music events which we are lucky enough to be working with the Quay Art Centre on. I don’t want to give to much away but there going to be awesome.

Favourite food

I love cooking for my friends so it would have to be a Big Old Mexican Feast Guilty pleasure - Emmerdale, One Direction & WKD… but i would stay there guilty pleasures, embrace what you love? aha

Best advice you’ve been given

“Exceed Expectation” Don’t just do what everyone else is doing, aim higher & you might actually shock people.

Style icon

I am my own Style aha, I wear what i want. Alway be yourself, not someone your not!!!

Favourite Band at the Minute

Its got to be YAK. I don’t think i have heard something so outrageous, dangerous & incredible satisfying to listen too. I have been lucky enough to witness them twice live & both times they have “Exceeded my Expectation”. If you haven’t seen them live you need to before they hit the big time & it so happens that they’re playing The Wedgwood Rooms this October. Anyone want to go with me?

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LUKE’S ONES TO WATCH

Jerry Williams WORDS: LUKE JOYNES PHOTO: GARETH GATRELL

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ride of Pompey Jerry Williams has been attracting rave reviews following performances on some of the UK’s biggest festival stages over the summer. She’s supported Take That at Hyde Park, performed on the Castle Stage at Victorious Festival, supported MAGIC! In London and her track Mother has been streamed over 1 million times on Spotify - pretty impressive indeed. After heading over to perform at a festival in Germany later this month, she will be going on her first headline tour of the UK. Make sure you catch her at one of the following dates to say “I saw her first”.

UK TOUR: SUN 2ND OCT - THE LOFT KINGS PUB, PORTSMOUTH MON 3RD OCT - SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS, LONDON TUE 4TH OCT - FALLOW CAFÉ, MANCHESTER WED 5TH OCT - START THE BUS, BRISTOL THU 6TH OCT - SUNFLOWER LOUNGE, BIRMINGHAM DOWNLOAD: ‘MOTHER’ FIND: @JERRYWILLIAMSMUSIC

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Temples Of Youth

Temples of Youth are a two piece electronic duo from Winchester, UK. Often compared to Daughter, Beach House and London Grammar, their sound consists of powerful female vocals, against a soundscape of ambient synth and shimmering guitar. Paul Gumma and Jo Carson where are you guys from? tackle some heavy themes, but they’re buried in Jo: We say were from Winchester, I’m not, but I’m from Eastleigh so we just say we’re subtlety. The band began working on their live from Winchester. It sounds nicer. Paul’s from set in December 2015, with the desire to bring Winchester and we practice here, and we play in Winchester a lot. their music to the stage with a limited number Paul: I’ve been in Winchester forever of hands; Jo on percussion and Paul on guitar, J: I was born here, but I haven’t spent much here until recently. So yeah, were from utilising samplers and effects to recreate their time Winchester, its just the two of us sound.

P: That’s where we kind of base ourselves really, we rehearse in Winchester, we play a Their ever growing emotive body of work has lot of gigs at The Railway - that’s kind of our attracted the attention of BBC Introducing, and little base in a way. the pair were invited in to record a live session what’s your local scene like?

J: it’s quite difficult because I don’t think in Brighton in March 2016. Their first track there’s much of a scene here for our type of Enso, was selected by Steve Lamacq for airplay music. If we were in Brighton or Bristol or London I think wed have a lot more interest. on his BBC6 Radio Show and their third track, P: Yeah I think in Winchester its more Dunes, was recently played by Huw Stephens on focussed towards Blues, Folk music and BBC Radio 1. The band are releasing their fourth things like that which is understandable because its semi rural, so it fits with the vibe track, Churches in June. ‘Temples of Youth’ were of Winchester. So yeah, we don’t really fit into that crowd that easily. named ‘Ones to Watch in 2016’ by the Selector J: Its quite difficult. I think that Southampton Radio Show - part of the British Music Council. is also the same - it was nice to play the

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showcase [page 32] because we could see that there are other electronic musicians out there - Southampton is very much a place for tribute bands, punk, pop-punk.

P: There’s a lot of metal and punk I think in Southampton which is quite surprising - I don’t know where that’s come from P: It would be interesting to see how the demographics of a city affects the popularity of certain musical genres. I mean somewhere like London - there’s so much going on there that there’d be so much music which would represent everyone.

J: I can’t imagine there’d be much folk in

Bristol - I might be wrong P: Well in Southampton I can’t imagine you’d get a lot of jazz or blues or anything like that.

J: I don’t know, i think you would but you’d have to seek it out. But we’ve tried to seek out our music where we are… I’ve seeked, but there isn’t that much about, although there is in a lot of other places.

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bands - all guitar based music - but the music I’ve listened to over the last few years is a little more diverse. I think you can do a lot more with samplers and synths.

“Someone said I sounded like Heather Small and..

Well that’s great but, I just don’t”

J: Even though we wanted to go down the electronic route, we didn’t want to be onstage not really doing a lot with a laptop playing a load of sounds, so we tried to keep it a mix of real instruments and electronic equipment which is why we wanted to go along with the indie electronic theme P: I’ve seen a lot of electronic bands who aren’t as organic as they could be, its literally just someone pressing buttons which sometimes works if you’ve got something visual to go with it. But if you haven’t its nice to add a few instruments in there to make it more organic. With the guitar and the drums in there we make it more human.

J: I don’t want people to look at us and think ‘Oh they’re just playing off a backing track’ because its not that setup at all.

There’s sounds that we’ve built that guide us through the songs but all the drums are live, the guitars live, all the vocals are live and a lot of the samples are as well where I trigger them.

P: I think to some degree were limited because there’s only two of us, so that’s why the sampling is great because we can fill in the gaps with the sampler but we’ll always be trying to do as much as we can as well. Its not like we just sit back and let the sampler do all the work, we do as much as we can and the sampler fills in.

J: We could have other members like a bassist or someone on synths but the dynamic of the two of us has worked well for the last six months. I think its also harder to manage a band with four or five

P: In Southsea we’ve had a really good reception there - we got offered some really cool gigs there with the dials festival and a gig at the Wedgwood Rooms, and Pie & Vinyl - we played a gig there. They had the record store day festival and we played that.

Its a nice vibe in Southsea - its the hipster central isn’t it.

How would you describe your sound?

J: its a difficult one. I think the biggest comparisons we get are Daughter, London Grammar, a little bit like The XX - I think that’s just because were a boy and a girl.

P: Ah yeah sometimes its like that. ‘Oh you’re a boy and a girl - you sound like this other female vocalist’ J: Someone said I sounded like Heather Small and.. Well that’s great but, I just don’t.

Yeah we get compared to London Grammar and Daughter a lot. We were doing a lot more indie band stuff and then Paul wanted to go down the more electronic route because he was listening to a lot of bands like Purity Ring.

P: Over the years I’ve been in a few indie

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members in.

P: Our tastes do vary but were into the same things and when we throw ideas at each other, we might have little tweaks but were never on a completely different page usually. I think when you add other people in the more complicated it can be J: But yeah, we’re indie electronic. A cross between indie and pop music.

P: That’s what we’ve come up with after all this time is indie electronic. If anyone asks we just say indie electronic and then mention a load of bands you might have heard of.

J: A man at the train station asked me who we sound like and I listed off a load of band who he didn’t know so i just thought ‘I’m just going to have to lie’ and go with a band that he does know. So I said Fleetwood Mac and he was like ‘Oh my god, I love them!’

festival type experience, so that was really nice P: Yeah and I think we played really well J: I really enjoyed supporting Sundara Karma at the Wedgwood rooms. I really enjoyed that gig because we wanted to play the Wedgwood rooms for a while, and the venues really good, and because it was Sundara Karma they brought a really cool big crowd so it was really nice to kind of crowd steal, and they responded really well.

It was our first time that people had come up to us to ask for pictures with us and stuff like that. It was kind of weird for us, but people really liked us so it was nice.

P: being on that stage was just amazing as well, I just love that venue.

Favourite band at the moment

J: Blaenavon. I just love them! I saw them live at Blissfields and I didn’t know that much of their music but their energy while they’re on stage is just insane. and then I listened to their music at home and I kind of missed them. I wanted their visual while listening to them - I think they’ve got something really special at the moment P: There’s a band that I’ve discovered

Best gig you’ve played so far

P: For me the best gig we’ve played was the pie and vinyl festival just because it was really really sunny and we were playing outside, it was a nice vibe, it was a good crowd there J: It was our first gig outside, so our first

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recently, I think they’ve been going for quite a while, a band called GEMS. They’re from Washington and it’s like a two piece. I really like their sound, they’re songs are really interesting and there’s a song that I’ve had on repeat for like a week, that’s by a singer called PYN, and that’s really good as well.

J: I’ve recently discovered Marika Hackman.

She supported Laura Marling I think for the recent meltdown festival, and she’s kind of like Laura Marling but a little bit more electronic, and it’s kind of… it’s really sad actually. Like really depressing but in a therapeutic way. I’ve only listened to a few of her tracks but she has a really beautiful voice, so I’m going to get more into that I think.

P: I knew it!

J: I don’t want to ruin it. I think I played one side of it and I just thought ‘Ah this is so awesome, I’m going to put this somewhere where it’s safe’. The artwork is so beautiful, if you got it on MP3 or just streaming, you don’t have any of that stuff. I really like vinyl but I really like CD for up and coming bands.

We would love to make some vinyl but it’s just so much money.

What’s next for the band

P: We’ve got four more tracks for the band.

So we’re going to put them into the set.

J: We have enough material to do an album, but I don’t think we want to do that right now. We’d prefer to build up interest, and build up our live set and things. I’d personally rather do an album with a label behind us - there’s a lot of bands who put out an album and then no one buys it. If you’re happy to do that, and you’re just doing it as a hobby and you love it, that’s fine. But were in the mindset that we really want to succeed at this and we really want it to have an impact as opposed to doing it just for fun. So we want to wait until we get someone behind us with the support and funding to really make an album happen.

Vinyl, CD or MP3

P: I was going to say vinyl then because I bought a record the other day - that was Foals, Holy Fire - I love that album. That album for me is something that you can really dive into, or you can just have on in the background - it works both ways. I went on a road trip across the states a few years ago, and that was playing when I saw some incredible storms and desert scenes, that was like the soundtrack to that, so I just had to get that on vinyl.

”We’ve known each other for about a year, but we’ve only really done this project since January and in that time I think We’ve achieved a lot by ourselves. It is hard work and you have to keep going at it”

“MP3 is really good for the convenience but I love having the artwork with vinyl”

J: I love vinyl, and I love collecting vinyl, but I think for logicists like that you have to listen to it on CD right or MP3? MP3 is really good for the convenience but I love having the artwork with vinyl. Sometimes I don’t even listen to my vinyl, I just look at it like something I don’t want to destroy. I’ve got Florence’s new album on vinyl.

P: Have you played it?

J: No…

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full time. I think for the rest of the year its just going to be us trying to generate some interest from the gigs we’ve got coming up, we’ve applied to play at SXSW next year which is something we really want to do, but I think, for now, the next thing for the band is to try and generate an interest and a fan base - which is really hard.

P: Yeah so at the moment we’re all about building a fanbase, getting interest and attention, whilst in the background it’s all about developing what we’re doing, getting the new songs in and there’s a new setup as well where I’m going to be doing some vocals, and standing up as opposed to sitting down. That was a bit of constructive feedback - up to this point I was just sitting down until someone from a touring company came down and said it’d be a lot better if the guitarist was stood up.

It’s something quite simple, but people were coming to our shows and couldn’t actually see me over the crowd. There’s lots of little tweaks and changes to make.

J: Hopefully next year with Festivals and stuff people will take us more seriously because we’ve grown so much over time.

P: I think we just want more of an audience, so if we’ve got something that we’ve sweated over and worked really hard on for so long together, we want significant attention so we can say to people ‘here it is’ and they can decide whether they like it or not, whereas at the moment because we’ve only just really started out, if we realised an album it would just go out and it will just disappear into the sea of other bands.

J: I think we’ve done pretty we so far.

We’ve known each other for about a year, but we’ve only really done this project since January and in that time I think ever achieved a lot by ourselves. It is hard work and you have to keep going at it. There’s not a lot of bands who can say they’ve had airplay on Radio 1, supported people and all this kind of stuff in the first 7 or 8 months of being together. So we’re really pleased with what we’ve done, and it’s hard work keeping things going, especially as we both work

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Who’s Who

y b l i G s e m a J @UhubOfficial

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How did UHub start?

I set up UHub with the intention for bigger breaking and unknown artists and to be shared at the same level as each other. We’ve shared the likes of Royal Blood, George Ezra, Nothing But Thieves, Jack Garratt, James Bay, Pretty Vicious, Catfish and the Bottlemen etc. I started it in 2014, because I was in a band and I always found it difficult to get the music out there - I wasn’t in a massive band but I realised how hard it was. Some of my friends had gone off with their bands and did fairly well but they found it hard too; going to gigs and trying to get the word out - there was no go-to place to get your music heard outside of the mainstream. It wasn’t like I was going to take it upon myself and do a massive publication, I couldn’t do that. I wanted a website where people could come and just share their music freely and quickly. I was trying to save for ages to make a proper website but I couldn’t actually afford to do it so eventually, I thought I could just use twitter. It had all the tools I wanted right there and then, so I just started using that hashtag UHubOfficial - and that was the system by which people could share their music straight away - and if I just wrote that hashtag, I could get people’s music out that way.

a lot of people what that platform to share their music. There’s a huge demand for it and I’m just trying to fit into that gap - I’m really excited to see where it goes.

The end goal, if you like, is to try and end up with my own label. So if I can get to the point where I have the platform to distribute the music id do it.

There’s some bands who I would sign right now if I could. If I had the money to do so and to put them through an album id do it now in a heartbeat.

“The first band I ever shared was Royal Blood” What makes UHub unique?

There’s a lot of people out there who do similar things to me but don’t put a lot of effort into it and the way it’s presented. If people are going to those sort of sites, I don’t think you have a lot of faith in what they can do - so the whole thing that I’m trying to do is to not keep it commercial but crisp, professional and credible. I’m very much in it for the bands, I get the reward from seeing them come from unknowns to playing a stage a Glastonbury.

“There was no go-to place to get your music Favourite bands at the moment heard outside of the mainstream”

Jack Garratt - I saw him at his album launch and he was great, but then several months later when I caught him at Glasto, he’d come SO FAR AND ABSOLUTELY SMASHED IT.

The first band I ever shared was Royal Blood, they followed me back so they’re like my big showboat.

It’s all about sharing bands, who get shared by their friends, and it gets the word out. I can promote it for free doing the whole follow for a follow thing. It’s nice and simple and easy, I’m not hiding anything, and it’s just grown over the years. I think

Anavae - an up and coming electro/rock-Y duo with who have a MASSIVE sound.

In Dynamics - they’re the ones that id sign straight away if I could. They’re kind of like Biffy Clyro in a way with big riffs and silky smooth guitar playing.

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They bring a different vibe to every show they play.

action - I guess it’s because of the bands that I see in small venues. It’s much more personable when you get up close and personal with the bands, where you get to meet them after and they almost become like your football team and start rooting for them, and knowing them on a more personal level. Maybe that’s something I could get into - like Hands down it has to be the Boiler Room in a ’Support your local band’ kind of thing. I’ll always Guildford, I love it there. It has its own vibe, it’s buy their merchandise if I can - I appreciate that got it’s history, it’s got it’s character and I’ve seen it’s difficult. so many bands there. It’s one of those places that the band’s respect and it’s a great place to catch up and coming bands as well. I think it’s a 300 capacity and the crowds you get there are on another level. Black Peaks played there and they tore the place down, people were just jumping everywhere and crowd surfing like on the ceiling - very, very sweaty.

Make your music as best as it can be, I know it costs money but the production value is key. Unfortunately, we live in a world where presentation is key - if you produce something of low quality, the majority of people are just going to turn it off.

Tour with as many bands as you can. It doesn’t have to be big bands, just your friends, but get out there, get around the country and don’t be shy to play to a small crowd. I’ve been at gigs where there’s like 4 people but you have to play to small crowds before you get to the bigger ones. You can’t go straight in and be huge - so try not to get that warped hope. It’s going to be hard.

And yeah, be friendly, make as many friends as I’ve always liked the spectacle of music. They’re you can. Be on good terms with people and they two levels of live music, you’ve got intimate up to a point, then once you get to more of a crowd will remember you. I’ve seen a few bands on tour who don’t do that - if you don’t, people will reit becomes way more of a spectacle. You see bands trying to create intimacy on a large stage member you for the wrong reasons. and it just doesn’t work, I much prefer more

Favourite Venue

Advice For New Bands Coming Through

“People were just jumping everywhere and crowd surfing like on the ceiling”

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Music Reviews Temples of Youth churches

submariner

faux

colour

Submariner are a 4 piece indie ambient rock band from the South Coast. Their latest single Colour blends the standard setup indie sound with all sorts of ambient sounds and influences offering an almost ethereal vibe.

I’ve heard that these guys pack out venues and have played alongside a few other localish bands who are starting to make it big. With sounds like this, it shouldn’t be long until Submariner start making their way up.

inhale

Temples of Youth are another band who sound like they could be on their way to greater success. They’ve only been around since the end of last year but this track sounds huge. Trying not to draw lazy comparisons here, but if you take London Grammar and mix them in a bucket with the likes of Daughter and you’ve nailed it - Temples of Youth borrow these influences and make something unique and fresh.

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Indie and Emo have a fumble together and as if by magic, dirtypop is born. The last time we heard from Faux was when they supported Tigers Jaw and Foxing at the Joiners - now they’re headlining their own EP Launch a the very same venue. This EP is a testament to their ongoing success as a band offering huge sing-along choruses, tonnes of almost math rocky guitar work and melodies - just an overall mammoth sound. Title track Inhale is definitely a highlight of recent music to come out of Southampton.

echo raptors

frankie knight

turn into one

white lies EP

Oscar

Breaking my phone

Echo Raptors are a 4 piece Rock n Roll band from Belfast and listening to this EP is pretty much like switching the radio on during the 90’s. Think Ocean Colour Scene, Verve, Cast.... bands like that, and you’re on the right track. Three tracks of nostalgic song-writing and good old guitar music, the stand-out track is definitely Wake Up. It sounds so familiar and fresh at the sametime compared to most music about at the moment. A reminder that decent British Guitar bands are still about.

Found during one of our weekly Soundcloud Adventures, this track stood out as something to write home about. Quirky pop, something to get stuck in your head and one of those songs you have to show to someone immediately ‘Hey listen to this!’

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I first came across this EP on the bus home from work following a press release email and was immediately hooked. From the South Coast, Frankie Knight will make you smile with her journey through Tropical Hip-Hop and supper sunny vibes. If you’re in Southampton on the 30th September, make sure to get down to Notes Cafe to see her perform live!

orchards

Jamie t

Peggy

Trick

K.Flay

Crush Me

Math-Rock from Brighton!

Beautifully intricate making you want to dance about instantly search for more material by this four piece. I can’t remember how we came across this track (did someone mention the other hugely popular female-fronted math rock band also from the South - Signals?) but I’m so glad our ears have been opened to the ever more popular math rock movement. Super catchy, energetic and insanely slick.

I love the upbeat interpretations of dark themes that K.Flay provides. Crush Me is another offering of hard hitting song writing, slick rap/singing vocals and driving beats, however I’m not sure if it’s on par with her previous release of Life As A Dog. Maybe it’ll grow on me but straight off the bat there’s nothing that really stands out as a potential new favourite track. Having said that, the more I listen to Blood In The Cut the more it grows on me...

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It’s been a while since I’ve had a whole album on repeat, and an even longer time since having songs stuck in my head keeping me awake. This album doesn’t mark a return to form, it marks a new direction with a nod to the past. It’s got the rappy bits from his first two albums, the melancholy feeling from Carry On The Grudge all combined into this new era of Jamie T. The thing I love the most is that this album is accessible to fans old and new alike. Favourite track has to be Dragon Bones, no, Joan of Arc, no, Solomon Eagle....

rat boy

cash in hand

kate nash

oasis

good summer

I don’t know how to feel about this. The old stuff was obviously great, then there was the couple of nothing albums, then the mental shouty one, and now this single. What does it mean?

It’s catchy and it feels like being slapped in the ears by the 00’s, but I just don’t know. I like it.

What could possibly be next for Kate Nash?

d’you know what i mean [ng remix]

Really not sure about Rat Boy...

2/5 might recommend to a friend just to ask what they think.

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This WAS my all time favourite Oasis track & nostalgic link to one particular night out in Lennons ‘back in the day’. But no, thanks Noel, you’ve ruined it for me. Why take the ultimate lad track and take away the rawness, soul and heart? Yes, the aeroplane noises at the start are gone - that’s a tick. And pronouncing the strings parts - good one. But take away the ‘wakka wakka’ right near the start before the verse kicks in that’s the best bit. Re-mastering a near perfect track is a dangerous act in itself, but for a band member [ex band member? too soon?] to remaster their own track just seems like a money making exercise. The single artwork on the other hand... yes, much better.

On the 11th August Luke Joynes Presents (see August’s issue to find out more about Luke Joynes) and Fret-Buzz Music Magazine teamed up to bring you our first ever joint promoted live event.

As part of the huge lineup of events taking place over the Ventnor Fringe Festival, we took over St Catherine’s Church in Ventnor on the IOW to bring you Tim Arnold, prolific singer songwriter and Save Soho campaigner from London, as well as a couple of excellent support acts from the Island - acoustic looper Anna Rice and The Orders frontman Kyle Chapman.

As well as putting the gig on just for the hell of it, we held a raffle in order to raise money for the ever so deserving charity WellChild who provide essential practical and emotional support for seriously ill children, young people and those who care for them across the UK. Oh and the raffle prize was only a couple of tickets for this years Bestival.

Raising in excess of £150 the night was a huge success and massive fun to put on. Thank you to everyone involved and all those loverly people who came along and spent money on the raffle! Keep an eye out for more gigs and events from us.

More pics can be found via our Facebook page and www.fret-buzz.net

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hree years ago, a bunch of incredible people on the Isle of Wight decided they’d do a crazy thing and start a collective of spoken word artists who’d travel around different venues on the Isle of Wight and perform their poetry to audiences. This group, known as the Reading Between the Lines Collective, now consisting of Tim Callaghan-Martin, Adam Gaterell, Doris Doolally, Ivana Popov, Cooly Haste, Richard Heaven, and some newer members from the Wordshop 2016 program, began as a small collective who tried to get their voices heard mostly in loud pub scenes. Despite it being sometimes understandably difficult to perform poetic pieces with often quite noisy crowds, the group pushed through with great determination, and kept the amazing art of spoken word alive for a long time. The Reading Between the Lines Collective were successful and became well-known for their talent in spoken word performance. Not only were they one of the only brave collectives on the Isle of Wight trying to push spoken word to the forefront of the art scene, but they were also a passionate group of people who really believed in spoken word performance, and the great uniqueness of individual acts.

This resulted in a fantastic diversity of performance in the main collective itself; with King Stammers (Tim) poetry being soulful, pure, and emotive the most eloquent Stoke accent I have ever heard (seriously, this man can make you think and sway your soul with his work).

Adam Gaterell’s often comedic character performances inspired by true stories from his own life, making his more serious pieces even more poignant when he adds them to the mix.

Wonderfully funny and sometimes awkward stories from Doris Doolally - often focusing on the kind of tales that are amusing when reflected upon, but pretty... Interesting to deal with at the time!

Ivana Popov uses her soft and captivating voice to entice the audience into thinking her poetry will be safe and sweet, so that when she talks of crude things and invites the audience to be her beatbox, you’re quite surprised... (Definitely positively though!)

Cooly Haste, the undeniably unique and brilliant man who brings the sometimes separated communities of rap lovers and spoken word enthusiasts together to witness his incredible talent as he lays down some of the ‘sickest’ (That’s the word those much cooler than me use today, right...?) rhymes you’ll ever hear!

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e h t n e e tw ! y a d h t r i B And Richard Heaven - that great relatable guy who pens down the things we all think, and want to say, but can’t, because we’ll be fired by our bosses or looked down upon by people who ‘don’t understand’... when actually the majority of people understand but just don’t want to say it because they’d rather be the judger than the judged.

And then there’s us - The poetry enthusiasts who have seen these people perform and are really inspired by what they do and how they string words together to create fantastic stories, entertaining characters, and heartfelt pieces that sway your soul. We - the lucky people who were inspired by these artists at exactly the right time! For it isn’t everyday that a humble Stoke man living on the little Isle of Wight trying his hardest to push poetry to as many audiences as he can, has contact from the BBC themselves, asking: ‘If there happened to be a large pot of money available to get more young people involved in poetry and spoken word on the Isle of Wight, what would you do with it?’ And so, after biting the BBC’s teasing, waggling finger, and sending them his (so he thought) crazy idea and figures, this humble Stoke man was granted what he’d asked for, and began running workshops for us - the incredibly lucky people who loved poetry and had the amazing opportunity to learn from the experienced members of the Reading Between the Lines Collective, and gather together to create a new generation of performers, all with our own unique words and styles.

So, three years from the beginning of this brilliant collective of passionate people, the Wight Rock bar in Ryde was being embellished with balloons, party poppers, and bunting draped all over the ceiling, in preparation for a celebration of all that the Reading Between the Lines Collective has managed to achieve since its creation. With a wonderful mix of Reading Between the Lines members, us - the Wordshop Workshop Graduates, and some ‘sick’ (I know, I should stop saying that... It only suits those who can pull it off. But I won’t, because I’m cool like that... Or something) guests filling out the eclectic line-up, our audience were in for an awesome 3rd birthday party! The great King Stammers trundled his way through his usual wonderful, very kind and hard to live up to words about each of us, Adam Gaterell drew some brilliant live art on a screen behind the stage to showcase even more awesome talent!

(We were totally on fire man, it was sick!) and we all performed our work to the kind and attentive audience who’d showed up to see what we were all about. There were drunken character poems, there was camaraderie, soulful swaying, honest messages, observational messages, and even some pieces about the Gods thrown in there to adhere to our initial theme of Mythology. Reading Between the Lines may three years old, but we’ve only just begun.

Andrew Butcher

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Temples of youth

joiners | southampton | 10.08.16

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he thing I love about showcase events is that more often than not, you walk away with a new band to obsess over. This evening I hopped on a bus to go and see Fret-Buzz classics Last Chance City, but it was Temples of Youth playing just before LCC who stole the show for me.

Walking through from the bar with a Red Stripe in hand into a green and orange lit smokey room with a duo on stage effortlessly making the amount of noise and performance as you’d expect from a full band just - for lack of a better phrase - blew me away.

Churches - their latest single - was probably the highlight of the set for me. It’s potentially a fairly simple track, but the two of them make it sound so huge and passionate. Keep an eye on the guys because I can imagine them filling out a big top tent at any given festival soon.

Words & Photos - Jake Priddle

temples of youth Who: Paul // Jo WHat: indie-electric Where: winchester When: formed 2015 Find: @templesofyouth

Last chance city Who: max // stafford // jack // edan WHat: electro // alternative rock Where: Isle of Wight When: formed 2012 Find: @lastchancecityofficial

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eadlining this episode of The Joiners Summer Showcase events were IOW favourites Last Chance City. Once again, the foursome bang out plenty of electro/alternative tunes with thier trademark hyperactive showmanship from frontman Max Cowely. Since last seeing them - probably well over a year ago now - they’ve changed their drummer and really tightened up their set and performance which is a welcome advancement. The dynamic of the band appears to be alot slicker now and a few of the more over the top electric additives ahve been toned down to make a more rounded band. Great fun to watch always offering something to dance about to. Just a shame the venue emptied before the start of their set... I guess that’s the nature of a showcase event hey?

Words & Photos - Jake Priddle

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future love

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Faux EP launch @ joiners

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Press to meco

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Victorious Festival 2016

t’s strange to think that Victorious Festival was a tiny music festival held at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard just three years ago- it’s fair to say it's come a long way since then. This year, the festival, now held on the mega Southsea Common, boasted its biggest line-up to-date, with over 10 stages of music to choose from and lots of different activities and entertainment in between.

Headlining the event was Manic Street Preachers and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, both providing memorable singalong moments during their sets. Gallagher, perhaps sometimes known for what he says rather than what he sings, delighted fans by playing some classic Oasis numbers, including Wonderwall and closing with Don’t Look Back In Anger.

This year, the afternoon special guest slots were given to The Boomtown Rats and Will Young, who both attracted huge crowds despite the early slots they were given. Boomtown Rats’ Bob Geldof is always an interesting character to watch because you just don’t know what he is going to do or say next, but it was his energetic performance that had the crowd on his side throughout. Will Young performed a fantastic set, gripping the hearts of all the women that watched him, ahead of his TV appearance on Strictly later this year.

Also performing across the weekend were Annie Mac, Travis, Editors, Mark Ronson (DJ Set), The Levellers, The Coral, Milky Chance, Public Service Broadcasting, Wretch 32, Pretty Vicious and many more across more than ten stages of live music.

There was also a host of local acts performing multiple sets throughout the weekend,including Jerry Williams, Marley Blandford, Rhythm Of The 90s, Kassassin Street and Novellas, who did Pompey proud on some of the festival’s big stages.

It has been confirmed that Victorious will return once again next year, this time as a three-day affair to celebrate its 5th anniversary. There will also be off-site camping for those wishing to party right through the weekend. Early-bird tickets have already gone on sale and are just £25 per day.

Words & Photos: Luke Joynes

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jerry williams

milky chance

Mark ronson

will young

pretty vicious

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listings 13TH SEP

The Fairweather Band Wedgewood Rooms

14TH SEP The Tuts - Joiners

15TH SEP

The Jukebox Romeos - Joiners Submariner - Talking Heads Rich Mayor - Wedgewood Rooms

16TH SEP

Cassava - Joiners Beer Music & Poetry Festival Waverley Park IOW Brink Theory - The Railway Inn

22ND SEP

28TH SEP

Feed The Rhino - Joiners

Healer - Joiners

23RD SEP

29TH SEP

Reb3llion - Coburgs

The Amorettes - Joiners

26TH SEP

30TH SEP

Homeplanetearth - Joiners Rat Boy - Wedgewood Rooms

27TH SEP

Local Showcase - Joiners The Hunna - Wedgewood Rooms

17TH SEP

Donovan Wolfington - Joiners Beer Music & Poetry Festival Waverley Park IOW Fold - The Railway Inn

18TH SEP

The Barratts - Joiners Beer Music & Poetry Festival Waverley Park IOW

19TH SEP Milburn - Wedgewood Rooms

20TH SEP

Colleen Green + Cassie Ramone - Joiners Every Brilliant Thing - Ventnor Exchange

21ST SEP The Bay Rays - Joiners

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Hercules Morse - Joiners Temples of Youth - Notes Cafe Neville Staple - 1865

3RD OCT Jamie T - Portsmouth Guildhall

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