Sweet Sweet Lies are Dominic Von Trapp (guitar and vocals),  Michael Hayes (guitar and vocals), Ken Box (piano), Deano Harrington (bass), Dan Brown (drums) and Kris Jones (trumpet). The band played a great set at Monto Water Rats on  October 25th, with tracks chosen of their forthcoming album “The Tortoise, The Hare and The Hound” which will be out in [...]

All photos: copyright Bartolomy, all rights reserved. Stateless I saw Stateless when they just had released their debut  and did a gig at 93 Ft East in 2007, I was completely blown away by their multi layered tunes and shot them quite a few times that year only for them to go quiet for a few years. This year [...]

All photos: copyright Bartolomy, all rights reserved. I have only come across Thrush Metal recently while watching a show at Rough Trade East record store, just off Brick Lane. There it was their debut ep in full view not to be missed by anyone. It isn’t just 4 pussies on the front cover that attracted my attention, [...]

All photos copyright:  Bartolomy, all rights reserved. Keelhaul, hail from Cleveland, Ohio. The band has been on and off these past 14 years with  ’Triumphant Return to Obscurity ‘ being their latest offering dating from 2009. They are back on tour in the EU, which brings it to this show which is their first in like months, they had only [...]

Selfish Cunt got middle classed-out, so they returned to the stage. All photos copyright:  Bartolomy, all rights reserved. It  has been roughly two years since the last Selfish Cunt show, I met up with Martin Tomlinson just after they started their hiatus and was always wondering when they were getting back together again, since England  NEEDS a band like Selfish Cunt. [...]

It has been a while since I went to Koko, good to see Joana and the Wolf on a bigger stage instead of just another mingy club. The songs have progressed, more layers, mostly very good. Sound was pretty good although some more volume on the vocals at times would have been a serious improvement. Time for [...]