ALBUM REVIEW: PETER GABRIEL: I/O

Over a couple of decades since his last original project, Peter Gabriel finally releases his most recent and highly anticipated album. i/o (or input/output) features intense subject matter on areas such as humanity’s position in society, the complicated ethics behind the justice system, the connection between astrology and people, and many other introspective topics. Since […]
As a website with a continual thirst for new music, each year brings us the anticipation of new artists that will establish themselves as favourites. Hopefully, our end of year Best of 2024 lists will consist of many names that are currently unfamiliar to us but, in the meantime, there are plenty of more familiar […]

2024 PREVIEWS

ALBUM REVIEW – VARIOUS: MOPING IN STYLE: A TRIBUTE TO ADAM GREEN

Dedicating an album to covering the work of one artist can often mean striking a difficult balance. Maintaining the heart of what makes the originals so persistent whilst not coming forward with a carbon copy is extremely difficult. What Moping in Style has going for it is a pretty stellar cast of musicians ready to […]
In many respects, 2023 was a diabolical year. Fortunately, music provided considerable solace and we were spoilt for choice in nominating our favourite albums of the year. We are pleased to announce that BC Camplight’s ‘The Last Rotation of Earth’ is our album of the year. He has been a long-standing favourite at Silent Radio […]

SILENT RADIO’S TOP FORTY ALBUMS OF THE YEAR – 2023

EP REVIEW – GET WRONG: GET WRONG

Get Wrong’s self-titled debut EP seems somewhat like a mission statement from the band. Made up of Naomi Griffin and Adam Todd of Martha and The Spook School respectively, they have departed from the guitar music of their previous work for a full-blown pop project, but one that is as earnest and direct as their […]
Advice After Tooth Extractions: 1. Take painkillers as soon as possible and before local anaesthetic wears off, and thereafter as necessary for the pain. Check… 2. Avoid rinsing out your mouth or disturbing the extraction socket for the first 24 hours, so as not to upset the natural blood clot forming, which initiates healing. OK… […]

LIVE REVIEW: DJANGO DJANGO – NEW CENTURY HALLS 13/12/23

LIVE REVIEW: PORRIDGE RADIO – 11/12/23

Dana Margolin, singer and guitarist of Porridge Radio, makes my blood run cold with one phrase uttered at the very start of their Yes show this evening. ‘We’re going to play mainly new stuff’. That’s it. That’s enough to dampen my enthusiasm for this show on a mild Monday evening in December, the promise that […]
It’s still hard to believe that it’s only ten years ago since Johnny Marr decided to go solo. Since the demise of The Smiths in 1987, his collaborations took centre stage, notably with Bernard Sumner in Electronic, The Cribs, and Modest Mouse amongst others, so tonight is a celebration of Marr’s decade going solo, lent […]

LIVE REVIEW: JOHNNY MARR ORCHESTRA 07/12/23

ALBUM REVIEW – FULL OF HELL AND NOTHING: WHEN NO BIRDS SANG

2023 has been a year of collaboration for Full of Hell. The band’s joint effort with Primitive Man, Suffocating Hallucination, a split EP with Gasp in August and now, to close the year off, When No Birds Sang. The record is a melding of minds with Philadelphia’s sullen, grungey shoegaze outfit Nothing. Full of Hell […]
This is perhaps the fourth or fifth time I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Gilla Band (former Girl Band), the Irish noise rockers who tear off the roof of any venue they play with their ferocious sound, and I’m pleased to say that the power they possess as a live unit has not diminished having […]

LIVE REVIEW: GILLA BAND – YES 05/12/23