Jonathan’s noughties music reviews

Around the time I was in performing arts school, I dabbled in music journalism.

Some of it was written “before I found my voice”, so I took it down from my old Blogspot account long ago. I’m oddly proud of it generally; I just wanted to avoid my juvenilia being the first thing people see when Googling me before a job interview 😉

It’s a nostalgic reminder of a fun period of my life, so it’s satisfying to put it back out in the world in a slightly less conspicuous way on Gemini.

Email: jonathan@tilde.team

Live reviews 🎫

2009-03-08 The Twang at Liverpool Guild of Students
2008-07-17 Death Cab for Cutie at Manchester Apollo
2008-07-06 Sugababes at Echo Arena, Liverpool
2008-06-30 Westlife at Echo Arena, Liverpool
2008-05-04 Pendulum at Liverpool Guild of Students
2008-02-06 Ziroki at Korova, Liverpool
2008-02-01 Glasvegas at Korova, Liverpool
2008-01-19 The Lionheart Brothers at Korova, Liverpool
2006-09-06 The Scare at Camden Barfly
2006-02-28 The Cribs / Giant Drag / The Jeffrey Lewis Band at Carling Academy, Liverpool
2005-12-09 Former Miss America at Korova, Liverpool
2005-10-05 Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster at Dry Bar, Manchester
2005-08-12 Magdala at Camberley FC
2005-04-22 Septembre / Death Sex Symbol / The Chrevrolets at West End Centre, Aldershot
2005-02-25 The Black Velvets / The Blackwater Jacks / The Pause at West End Centre, Aldershot
2005-01-16 Loki / Magdala / Enter Shikari at Cellar Bar, Bracknell
2004-11-05 Hell Is For Heroes / Aereogramme / Iodine at West End Centre, Aldershot
2004-07-24 Brian Wilson at Royal Festival Hall, London

Album reviews 💿

2008-07-28 Scars on Broadway - “Scars on Broadway”
2008-06-24 Feeder - “Silent Cry”
2007-12-13 iLiKETRAiNS – “Elegies to Lessons Learnt”
2007-03-03 !!! – “Myth Takes”
2007-02-05 Wojtek Godzisz – “Burning Ideals”
2007-01-29 Kristin Hersh – “Learn To Sing Like A Star”
2006-09-18 Get Cape Wear Cape Fly – “The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager”
2006-07-21 Viva Voce - “Get Yr Blood Sucked Out”
2006-07-11 The Victorian English Gentleman’s Club - “The Victorian English Gentleman’s Club”
2006-07-08 TV On The Radio – “Return To Cookie Mountain”
2006-06-19 iLiKETRAiNS - “Progress Reform”
2006-06-11 “Extended Seventies: The Dawning of the 12 inch Era” (various artists)
2006-04-13 Anti-Flag - “For Blood and Empire”
2006-04-13 Alamos
2006-03-22 Howling Bells - “Howling Bells”
2006-02-21 Mclusky - “Mcluskyism”
2006-02-20 Sway - “This Is My Demo”
2006-02-10 Bell X1 - “Flock”
2006-01-23 Leon – “Uppers and Downers”
2006-01-15 Panic! At The Disco - “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”
2006-01-13 Prefuse 73 - “Security Screenings”
2006-01-06 Saint Jude’s Infirmary – “Happy Healthy Lucky Month”
2005-12-01 Rolling Stones - “Rarities 1971-2003”
2005-11-20 Public Enemy - “New Whirl Odor”
2005-11-12 Jackie-O Motherfucker - “Flags of the Sacred Harp”
2005-11-06 Slipknot - “9.0: Live”
2005-10-26 Nightwish - “Highest Hopes - The Best Of Nightwish”
2005-10-25 Shooting At Unarmed Men - “Soon There Will Be…”
2005-10-24 Beastie Boys - “Solid Gold Hits”
2005-10-19 Chris T-T - “9 Red Songs”
2005-08-09 Pure Reason Revolution - “Cautionary Tales for the Brave”
2005-04-24 Function Records sampler
2004-12-16 Farnborough Groove 10 compilation

Single reviews 💿

2007-02-26 The Pigeon Detectives - “Romantic Type”
2006-09-17 Say Anything - “Alive With The Glory Of Love”
2006-09-14 Tunng - “Jenny Again”
2006-09-06 The Bronx – “History’s Stranglers”
2006-07-03 This Is Seb Clarke - “Spring Morning Sunshine”
2006-07-01 The Gossip - “Listen Up”
2006-06-08 Korn – “Coming Undone”
2006-06-06 Battle - “Children”
2006-02-18 The Modern – “Industry”
2006-02-15 dios (malos) - “I Want It All”
2006-02-03 Little Man Tate – “The Agent”
2006-02-02 The Freelance Hellraiser – “Want You To Know” / “Pound For Pound”
2006-01-20 Pure Reason Revolution - “In Aurélia”
2006-01-18 Starsailor - “This Time”
2006-01-10 Son of Dork – “Eddie’s Song”
2005-12-05 The Rolling Stones – “Rain Fall Down”
2005-12-05 Computerman - “No More Broken Hearts”
2005-11-28 Weapons of Mass Belief - “Death of a Nation”
2005-11-15 Goldie Lookin’ Chain - “R ‘n’ B”
2005-08-26 Paul McCartney - “Fine Line”
2005-04-11 Reuben - “Blamethrower”

Demo reviews 💿

2006-03-22 The Playing Fields
2006-02-06 Laymar - “Live at the Tiger Lounge, Manchester”
2005-12-19 Malakai
2005-09-28 Greenwich Resident
2005-09-25 Guns Or Knives
2005-09-16 Suki’s Wish - “7 Ghosts, 7 Angels, 7 Shamen”
2005-04-26 Sucka - “Goodbye’s the Hardest Part”
2004-12-12 Southpaw - “Southpaw EP”
2004-08-10 Schumacher Levy - “Untitled”