LIVE: WILD NOTHING – 19/03/2013
- SOUND CONTROL, MANCHESTER - Nocturne was one of my favourite albums of last year, and is certainly my favourite jangly-American-indie album of 2013. I only heard it in about October, so for such a summer-y album the climate at the time felt a bit at odds with the tunes within, but I fell hard for it, and rinsed it to near death, clinging on to memories of that one sunny day we had in July. ‘Paradise’ has quickly become one of my all... Read More
LIVE: THE WALKMEN / WILD NOTHING – 30/10/2012
- THE RITZ, MANCHESTER - Drinking my first beer of the night, I thought of my chumbuttlies with whom I would soon be road-tripping to the gig, singing nursery rhymes and drinking from stolen pint glasses as we went. On the road, we joyfully reminisce about the Ritz of our whipper-snapper days and had a rather scintillating debate about the relative merits of the old versus the new incarnations of what is now officially known as the ‘Dog Dog... Read More
ALBUM: WILD NOTHING – NOCTURNE
To me, Jack Tatum’s music has always seemed contradictory. On his 2010 album, Gemini, Tatum used the stylistic devices of pop music as a stencil to aid his vision. Verses sunk into choruses perfectly, bridges obligingly followed and earworms were unearthed in their masses. As if Tatum’s song writing was akin to slotting together pieces of a jigsaw, the finished articles, when looked upon from afar, just made perfect sense. With indelible hooks... Read More
NEWS: WILD NOTHING – VIDEO FOR NEW SONG ‘SHADOW’ + 2ND ALBUM DETAILS
Bella Union records are thrilled to announce the signing of Wild Nothing who returns this summer with second album ‘Nocturne’, the follow-up release to his acclaimed debut ‘Gemini’. Ask Jack Tatum what ‘Wild Nothing’ means and he’ll answer: ‘a contradiction’. In 2010, 21 year old Tatum released one of the finest cult pop records of the summer whilst ensconced in his senior year of college in Blacksburg, VA, a small mid-atlantic... Read More
LIVE: WILD NOTHING – 21/08/2011
- THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER - Now Wave have built a great reputation in Manchester, their events always appear to provide large crowds and great support acts to supplement their exciting, current and fresh headliners. Tonight is no exception, I’ve regrettably been unable to leave the house earlier due to too much Sunday roast and only catch the last two tunes from ∆. If you type Alt-J on an Apple keyboard you get a ∆. I heard the band... Read More
LIVE: Wild Nothing / Milk Maid / The ABC Club – 08/10/2010
- THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER - The ABC Club come on stage in a haze of pyrotechnics, clad in leopard skin leotards and beckon to the crowd ‘Are you ready to motherfucking rock Manchester?’ Well, actually they don’t at all, but its Monday night in cold, wet and windy Manchester and I need a wakeup call. I probably shouldn’t have come out at all, still shattered from the weekend’s revelry. My mind’s eye has already begun to ponder the... Read More
