As my colleagues here salivate and twitch over the new Wolfmother album, I absorb the latest offering by Echo & The Bunnymen and reflect fondly on the past. 2009 has thrown up an overdose of eighties regenerations and listening to the richness of McCulloch & Co makes me realise how much of the rest of [...]

LUPEN CROOK & THE MURDERBIRDS SUPPORT YOUNGMINDS CHARITY
On Monday November 16th 2009, Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds will release a six-track EP entitled CURSE OF THE MIRROR WICKED, in support of the UK’s YoungMinds charity. This EP will be free to download from the band’s website, but anyone downloading will be encouraged to make a [...]

THE SPARROW AND THE CROW ALBUM RELEASE - NOVEMBER 9, 2009 ON NAIM EDGE
Illinois-based singing psychotherapist releases iTunes’ ‘No. 1 folk album’ and announces gig at London’s Bush Hall on November 12, 2009.
The divorce of William Fitzsimmons’ blind parents was so traumatic he wrote an album about it. The recording of that album, GOODNIGHT, in [...]

TREK DETAILS
Day 1-2: September 27-29 / Arrival and Transfer to Mount Meru National Park
Our team will be departing from 5 countries and ascending throughout the day of the 27th upon Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania . We will spend our first 2 nights in a private tented camp at 6,000 ft, helping us acclimatize in preparation [...]

TREK DETAILS
Day 1-2: September 27-29 / Arrival and Transfer to Mount Meru National Park
Our team will be departing from 5 countries and ascending throughout the day of the 27th upon Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania . We will spend our first 2 nights in a private tented camp at 6,000 ft, helping us acclimatize in preparation [...]

However, as Miller reveals, The Low Anthem clearly likes to over-think and to obsess, in the process creating work that, conversely, seems natural and effortless in its execution. Miller admits, “We fussed and scraped for every sound on the record. We didn’t just throw up some mikes and get lucky. Everything was fought for. We [...]