Basement


Reviews


Illicit Hugs And Playground Thugs (2006)
Basement - Illicit Hugs And Playground Thugs

Largely uninspiring debut album from Byrds-fixated Liverpudlian rockers, the Basement


I Just Caught A Face (2006)
Basement - I Just Caught A Face

Country-influenced latest single from much hyped new Liverpool band, the Basement


Related


Interviews

Ruby Suns
Interview Wos Vs Pussyfoot - Interview

The Ruby Suns were started in a basement studio in Auckland and make indie pop with a big sound and involving strings and brass. Sarah Johnson speaks to frontman Ryan McPhun about the group's fluctuating line-up and 'Sea Lion', its just released second album


Live

Dubiosza Kolektiv
Academy 3, Manchester, 7/11/2018 Dubiosza Kolektiv - Academy 3, Manchester, 7/11/2018

Denzil Watson has fallen in deep, deep like with Balkan ska-rap-punk-Balkan folk act Dubioza Kolektiv. They deliver a barnstorming set in the basement of Manchester Academy.


Craig Finn
Slaughtered Lamb, London, 15/9/2015 Craig Finn - Slaughtered Lamb, London, 15/9/2015

Ben Howarth watches Craig Finn, more used to playing with a booming rock band behind him, perform an intimate solo set in front of an enthralled crowd in the basement room of London’s Slaughtered Lamb pub


Big Feastival
Kingham, Oxfordshire, 31/8/2013...1/9/2013 Blur - Kingham, Oxfordshire, 31/8/2013...1/9/2013

Nick Dent-Robinson is impressed by the Big Feastival, the annual food and music event staged by Jamie Oliver and Blur bassist Alex James at James's farm in Oxfordshire and which this year saw sets by Basement Jaxx, the Feeling, Rizzle Kicks, Dodgy and KT Tunstall


Japandroids
CAMP Basement, London, 22/5/2012 Monkey Island/The Dublo - CAMP Basement, London,  22/5/2012

Vacouver-based garage rock duo Japandroids put on a fast and furious show at the CAMP Basement in London


XBXRX and Elephantoms
End Hits, Ottawa, 21/4/2007 XBXRX - End Hits, Ottawa, 21/4/2007

In the basement of Ottawa record store End Hits, Andrew Carver enjoys vigorous shows from both hyperactive Californians XBXRX and equally energetic local act, Elephantoms


Regulations and the Sweet Janes
End Hits, Ottawa, 30/10/2006 Regulations - End Hits, Ottawa, 30/10/2006

In the basement of Ottawa record store End Hits Andrew Carver watches Scandinavian punks the Regulations and local band the Sweet Janes play exuberant sets


Clientele
Uffe's Kallare, Växjö, Sweden, 16/10/2002 Clientele - Uffe's Kallare, Växjö, Sweden, 16/10/2002

The Clientele recently played a four date tour of Sweden. Tommy Gunnarsson catches them on fine form and at their intimate best in a tiny basement club


Albums

Bob Dylan and The Band
The Basement Tapes Bob Dylan and The Band - The Basement Tapes

In our 'Re : View' section, in which our writers look back at albums on the past, new Pennyblackmusic writer Jeff Thiessen examines Bob Dylan and The Band's sprawling 1975 album, 'The Basement Tapes', and finds, underneath all its seeming looseness, a surprising sense of structure and deliberateness


Features

Photoscapes
Basement Jaxx Basement Jaxx - Basement Jaxx

Popular UK house music duo Basement Jaxx recently played an arena tour of Britain. Anna Gudaniec photographs them exclusively for Pennyblackmusic at the London Wembley Arena