As I sit down to scribe my look back at my first trip to Brighton for The Great Escape, I’m travelling on a bus from London to Liverpool, about to hit the ground running for the third music festival of this trip. Heading overseas to a music festival is nothing new for me, but it’s certainly nothing I take for granted. It’s an incredible opportunity to see some of the best talent in the world – new, upcoming and established – alongside our own Australian artists trying to make it in unique settings and locations.  Before I get onto ...

Here's a pair of Poles whose music cuts like the Knife You get the impression that Polish siblings Radioblue , aka Sylwia van der Wonderland and Rob Kubicki, spend a long time perfecting their slowburn electronica. Sylwia lists her influences as soft electronica, new disco and space disco, while Rob calls himself a "sound designer" influenced by Tibetan Buddhist chants. This attention to detail is evident on their debut release, Take Me Home, which certainly has the otherworldly feel you'd expect from something that proclaims itself to be space disco. There's an intricacy to how the soft beats ...

The 405 team was out in force for The Great Escape this year, so rather than bringing you a band-by-band account of our time in Brighton, our editors/writers have chosen their five favourite bands from the event. Who came out on top? Read on to find out... Photos by Tim Boddy James Canham Swords">Forest Swords - Tim and myself arrived partway through Swords">Forest Swords set (they started at the same time AlunaGeorge finished) to a stunned and mostly silent crowd. The two of them on stage (one at the mic, laptop and electronics and another on the bass ...

Sacrilegious or sardonic as it may be on behalf of the bookers of Brighton or elsewhere (re: the latter tonight's spotlights are of exclusively satanic hue), whether ardent believer, agnostic or outright atheist there's incontestably no better venue than your local House of the Lord. Yet a four pack ring strewn before the altar and a bar at the back demonstrate a slight disregard for location and indeed this divine setting ensures the unshakably uncomfortable sensations of any given Sunday are immediately imitated upon entrance. That hideous gut-wrench signalling an imminent return to the institutionalised authority education provides ...

Two free albums that sound good played at the same time: Dr. SETI (aka Dr. H. Paul Shuch) sings songs about his namesake and day job, the Search For Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.  Book him for your next party!  He considers himself a singing ambassador for the hunt for little green men, and his acoustic folk tunes, some parodies of oldies like Patsy Cline's "Crazy" or John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads," are brimming over with not only his deep faith in the existence of aliens, but with endearing enthusiasm, and an endless parade of hopelessly obscure inside references ...

Jack Savoretti has been on our radar for a good long while now. Having interviewed him around the release of his second album back in 2009, we’ve watched him go from strength to strength as he played a series of sold out London shows and landed songs on prime-time American TV shows like One Tree [...] Jack Savoretti – Take Me Home was originally published on The Blue Walrus

“be my little baby, baby my darling… ” This one’s obvious, just like Ronnie sang. Take me home tonight 2:14 – 2:38 From Can’t Hold Back, released through Columbia Records, 1986

Nach rund dreijähriger Schaffenspause melden sich die britischen Vorzeige-Indie-Rocker Maximo Park am 8. Juni mit einem neuen Studioalbum zurück. Der vierte Langspieler der Band wird den Titel "The National Health" tragen und das erste des Quintetts sein, welches bei Universal und nicht wie bisher bei Warp Records erscheinen wird. Die Gruppe um den passionierten Hutträger Paul Smith will dem Hörer gewohnt schwungvollen, melodieverliebten Indie-Rock präsentieren, der mit elektronischen Einsprengseln und intelligenten Texten daher kommen will. Nachdem die Band vor einigen Wochen bereits das Titellied präsentierte, gibt es mit "Hips And Lips" nun die erste offizielle Single. Diese könnt ihr an ...

"Oh look now you're the guest of the government, all lined up like a pale faced president." *Lanterns On The Lake* - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home (http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2721012) (Broden Terry) *Arkells* - Michigan Left (http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2722322) (Gregory...

– Jessica Says cameos in the clip for ‘Tonight’, the candid opening track from Emma Russack’s debut solo album Sounds Of Our City (“Tonight I’m gonna go out/Get drunk/And find someone to take me home”). For fans of red lippie and slo-mo. Album out now through Spunk. – Melbourne beatmaker Crumbs (aka Agents of Abhorrence drummer and Brain Children member Max Kohane) will release his full-length debut, Maidenhair , through Sensory Projects this Friday (April 20). In advance, here’s a psychedelic NSFW clip for ‘Love Snack’, a collaboration with //This Thing// Collective co-founder Dylan Michel aka Wooshie. – A ...

Hard rocker Sal Piamonte released his newest self-recorded and self-produced album Lives In Devil City in October of 2011. The disc's first official single is the song "Take Me Home" and the radio-edited version thereof recently got its own music video. The clip above was directed and edited by Justin Aresta in association with Kambites Productions and Grand Family Entertainment Inc.

It's still a little sweltering come seven and the dulcet tones of a slapdash ukulele ensemble interpreting Neil Diamond's perennial schmaltz fest Sweet Caroline glide out the door of the Queen of Hoxton , out into the humid airs of east London. To recur to that oft-rebuked British tendency to explicate the meteorologically obvious it's irrevocably glorious for late March. However hailing from the rugged, precipitous lands of North Wales few luminescent rays may conceivably have struck members of this particularly exclusive  Deaf Club  (it numbers just five) and perhaps resultantly, their all too infinitesimal slot supporting previously ...

North Eastern rockers Maximo Park are set to return with their fourth album this summer, entitled The National Health (released June 11th). The band are hoping this new LP reflects the mood of a country (hopefully) exiting a recession. Frontman Paul Smith had this to say about the new record: "We’re in a global recession and everyone is being bombarded with bouncy, happy music” he explained, “The nation is out of control and the record is about taking back control, and being a force for change in your own life. It can’t speak for everybody but it has ...

Maximo Park are set to return this summer, releasing new album 'The National Health' on June 11th. An enduring indie success story, Maximo Park have managed to outlast most of their contemporaries from the Class of 2005. Shifting with the times, the band are to return this summer with an album which aims to reflect the mood of the country. Presciently titled 'The National Health', Maximo Park will release their new album on June 11th. The band's fourth full length to date, the material is seemingly informed by a post-recession environment. “We’re in a global recession and everyone ...

The Poolside boys have been in touch from their sunny kingdom in LA to do something pretty awesome for the fans… They are going to give away their Take Me Home track that was part of the Aeroplane – In Flight Entertainment compilation for absolutely free as a thank you for all the continued support. [...]