NEWS – Meet & Jam.
Meet & Jam, the home of musicians, has launched a series of UK-wide Jam Nights, culminating in a grand finale at The 100 Club in London. They are on the hunt for the best jamming
VPME PODCAST – HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
Not a new podcast but one from the crypt…. back when we had a weekly show on the excellent U.S. Station Strangeways Radio. This was our Halloween special from 2013 … We’re not sure what’s
TRACK OF THE DAY – JUNK SON – True
Junk Son started out as the musical alter ego of John Dunk, who gave up the delights of the Lake District, mint cake, and wide open spaces for over priced housing, jellied eels and traffic
IN PICTURES – LAUREN AQUILINA / CHLØË BLACK – LIVE
We caught two singers who look set to take 2016 by storm. Lauren Aquilina’s self-released EP’s have apparently sold over 100,00 copies, she’s headlined the BBC Introducing stage and is set to release her debut
ALBUM REVIEW : JENNIE VEE – Spying
Jennie Vee was one of our tips for 2015 and her debut solo album ‘Spying’ certainly doesn’t disappoint, in fact it plays like a greatest hits album. This is due in no small part to the
IN PICTURES – BLACK HONEY -LIVE – LIVERPOOL PARR STREET -STUDIO 2
We caught Black Honey live again recently, a band we tipped back in 2013 even before they were Black Honey (see if you can spot ’em HERE.) Once again they proved to be one
THE VPME MEETS – THE BIG MOON
It may be an overused journalistic trope to describe a new band as “arriving fully formed”, but that’s exactly the impression given when London quartet the Big Moon appeared on the scene this year. There
TRACK OF THE DAY – CHLØË BLACK – ‘Wild At Heart’
Chløë Black is a bloody marvel, literally and figuratively as her latest David Lynch inspired video demonstrates. Let’s face it anybody who expresses a desire to watch ‘Twin Peaks whilst we make love’ seems to
IN PICTURES : METRIC – LIVE – MANCHESTER RITZ – 09.10.2015
One of our favourite bands of recent years , in one our favourite venues, Toronto’s Metric brought their Pagans In Vegas tour to Manchester’s Ritz Ballroom and demonstrated that after over 15 years they remain at
TRACK OF THE DAY – ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – ‘Evocation’
You may by of the opinion that music from an artist who once wrote a song entitled “Funeral For My Future Children“ performed on a massive big f*ck off pipe organ could be a slightly
Songs To Learn And Sing – The Big Moon, Stealing Sheep, Bruising, Man Made
The Big Moon – Nothing Without You Quite possibly one of the best tracks yet so far from The Big Moon and shockingly it’s apparently being tucked away as a B-side !! It nimbly demonstrates
TRACK OF THE DAY – Wildhoney – Laura
Half Man Half Biscuit memorably bemoaned the fact that certain names have been sadly neglected by songwriters over the years . And they set about addressing the issue by penning ‘Ode To Joyce’ – “Hey