Story Books
Story Books should have made their way onto this page months ago. Fortunately, they’re here now. It’s a interesting, if ridiculous notion that we feel as though we’re late to post on Story… Read More
Author Archive
Sir Sly
Sir Sly remind me of The Neighbourhood. Whoa, what? Starting an introductory feature with a comparison? Well, yes. It’s not a bad thing as much as it is a great example of the way in which sounds and perhaps more importantly, sounds in vogue get picked up by the indie radar. Both bands share the same melancholy, and also the same contrasting pop sensibilities. Oh yeah, and both are great.
The 1975 Interview
On an unreasonably cold evening in mid February, we had the opportunity to meet up and have a chat with indie quartet The 1975 ahead of their Cambridge show. These guys are one… Read More
Holy Esque
Pain and music have always had an inspiring relationship. It’s an emotion, and its provocative. It’s something we struggle to come to terms with, and that’s probably why music draws so much power… Read More
HMCMB’s Songs Of 2012
The end of the year is nigh, and 2012 can be chalked down as a good one. The Olympics weren’t a total flop, an Austrian jumped out of a really high hot air… Read More
Casablanca
We could start talking about Casablanca by describing how they are all really young, or that they are full of promise, but we shan’t for two reasons. Firstly, as a ‘young blog’ ourselves… Read More
Cave Painting – Votive Life
Cave Painting are a Brighton band. What’s more, they’re one of the most promising acts out of our fair seaside town in some while. They’re really, really good – and it’s about time… Read More
We’re off to Bestival!
So as you may know, today is the first day of Bestival! A day upon which thousands of costume wearing, music loving boys and girls descend upon the Isle Of Wight for a… Read More
Cast Of Cheers – Family
As some of you may know, The Cast Of Cheers – Ireland’s balls-to-the-wall answer to the Foals – have released their just released their ‘debut’ signed outing Family. As some of you may… Read More
The Wolfnotes
You may, or just as easily may not have, realised that it’s been some while since HMCMB has been at full strength. Writer’s have been dipping in and out over the summer but… Read More
Exam season
A Spectre is haunting HMCMB – the spectre of Summer exams. As this Cold War tinged intro might suggest, we have exams coming up. As of late the resultant academic commitments have been… Read More
