Spiral Stairs – HYP-NO-TIZED Lady Lamb – Even In The Tremor Keston Cobblers’ Club – Esta Mercury Rev featuring Lucinda Williams – Ode To Billie Joe  (Bobbie Gentry cover) John Vanderslice – I’ll Wait For You Rat Boy – Don’t Hesitate Frankie & The Witch Fingers – Pleasure BAILEN – I WAs Wrong Ohmme – Give Me back My Man  (B52’s cover) Marry Waterson & … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Neil Young – Campaigner (Live, acoustic) Ty Segall – Class War (The Dils cover) Beach House – Alien Public Service Broadcasting – White Star Liner The Growlers – Problems III Matthew E. White – No Future In Our Frontman Tiny Ruins – Olympic Girls Drug Church – Unlicensed Hall Monitor J Mascis – Web So Dense Keston Cobblers’ Club – Siren … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Once again some cracking tuneage for you today in Part 1 of our regular weekly round-up of some of the best new releases. We are ultra excited by the return of Justin Townes Earle and Champagne Corolla, which comes from forthcoming album Kids In The Street,  T. Hardy Morris who has shared a new track NY and Sharon Van Etten who reimagines the Skeeter Davis track End … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
A much loved discovery of Mrs M’s, five piece pop folkies The Keston Cobblers Club are set to release their new album Wildfire on Tricolour Records /Absolute via Universal in June. Triggered by teenage obsessions with British power pop and Glaswegian indie dreamers, the twelve track collection is a sonic journey of sounds. Building on the band’s bedrock of urgent anthems, thumped drums, sweet strums and … Continue reading New Video: Keston Cobblers Club – Won’t Look Back
And so it was Wilderness again (or Wildness if you were the somewhat disconnected and over-excited John Newman) – this year even bigger (an increase in capacity to 15,000) and still sold out. It is surely the premier boutique festival on the circuit in the undeniably stunning setting of Cornbury Park, which happily lies within a short walk of Mackerel Towers. By its nature it … Continue reading Live Review: Wilderness Festival 2013
A new week, some new tunes to soften the blow. We have a taste (if that’s the right word) from Diarrhea Planet’s new album I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams in the shape of the sleazy, roiling Babyhead. By way of contrast we have Frankie Rose’s new track Sorrow from her scheduled new long player Herein Wild, a deceptively simple and sweetly melancholic pop track … Continue reading New Tunes On Monday
Based on the folklore of the old, penniless Cobbler of Keston who threw barn dances for the villagers, wearing their soles thin and thus creating business…The modern Keston Cobblers’ Club have brought this ethos back with contemporary, catchy music fused with the grittiness of traditional British folk. Already much beloved of Mrs M and the High Priestess, have yourself a listen to Beam – the new … Continue reading MM Shorts 378: Keston Cobblers’ Club
So the waiting is over, and here are the first twenty entries in our Top 100 of 2012, part of MM’s much expanded Best of the Year review. Over the next five days we will reveal our favourite songs and those of our contributors: Mrs Mackerel, Christy Popper, Barry-Sean, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Middle Sprat, Starbie, and Toy Steve. These are not the most “popular” … Continue reading 2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 1: 100 – 81
A whirlwind week began with the Wilderness Festival (thanks Ronan) and ended with my liver feeling like it needs to be squeezed out and dried on the radiator. We have returned from Devon today in the pouring rain from five days with 38 big and small people in an Agatha Christie style house, where the sun shone and at times the rain poured down. There … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (17th August)
Day three and more sun, surely one the only sequences of three whole days without rain that we’ve had all summer. Despite 14,000 pairs of feet, the estate still looked rather fine and the spirit of village-green good naturedness was still at the forefront of everything. On the bandstand the Keston Cobblers’ Club provided the perfect soundtrack for the setting with a gorgeous set of … Continue reading Live Review: The Wilderness Festival (Day 3)
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