Sunshine


Live

Spitz, London, 8/4/2005

Sunshine - Spitz, London, 8/4/2005

Dan Cressey watches T Model Ford live up to his reputation as "the boss of the blues" by putting on a sprightly performance at the London Spitz's new Festival of Blues


Barfly, London, 29/4/2005

Sunshine - Barfly, London, 29/4/2005

Czech band Sunshine have drawn comparisions with Primal Scream, the Damned and New Order, but Olga Sladeckova sees little in the way of originality at a recent show at the London Barfly


Reviews


Victimisanothernameforlover (2005)
Sunshine - Victimisanothernameforlover

Derivative, but catchy new single from self-proclaimed 'punk rock/electro/noise terrorists' Sunshine


Related


Interviews

Male Bonding
Interview

Paul Waller talks to London-based noisy sunshine pop act and recent Sub Pop signing Male Bonding about their just released debut, 'Nothing Hurts', at a show in Canterbury


Sunshine Valley Dance Band
Interview Miscellaneous - Interview

Featuring former members of Ultrasound and Spiritualized, London based trio the Sunshine Valley Dance Band's music has a similar energy and charisma. Olga Sladeckova chats to bassist Vanessa Best


Live

Pasadena Daydream
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, 31/8/2019 Pasadena Daydream - Rose Bowl, Pasadena, 31/8/2019

L. Paul Mann watches and photographs goth rock icons the Cure curate a highly impressive support bill capped with a superb headline slot for their all-day festival in the blazing California sunshine.


Happyness
Think Tank, Newcastle, 24/4/2017 Happyness - Think Tank, Newcastle, 24/4/2017

Adrian Huggins sees London-based purveyors of college rock Happyness bring their sunshine to a rainy Newcastle


Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival
Okeechobee, 5/3/2017 Miscellaneous - Okeechobee, 5/3/2017

At the fourth and final day of the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival writer ad photographer L. Paul Mann sees sets by among others Bipolar Sunshine, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Lumineers and the Kings of Leon


Sunshine Music and Blues Festival
Mizner Park Amphitheatre, Boca Raton, Florida 18/1/2015 Miscellaneous - Mizner Park Amphitheatre, Boca Raton, Florida 18/1/2015

Carl Bookstein is impressed by the one-day Sunshine Music and Blues Festival in Boca Raton in Florida which this year saw sets among others from the Doors' Robbie Krieger, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, The Both and Los Lobos


Sunshine Music and Blues Festival
Mizner Park Amphitheatre, Boca Raton, 18/1/2014 Miscellaneous - Mizner Park Amphitheatre, Boca Raton, 18/1/2014

Carl Bookstein enjoys performances from the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Galactic, Leon Russell, Hot Tuna, Tab Benoit and Stanley Clarke at the Sunshine Music and Blues Festival in Florida


Camera Obscura and the Essex Green
Barrymore's, Ottawa, 30/1/2007 Camera Obscura - Barrymore's, Ottawa, 30/1/2007

At a show at Barrymore's in Ottawa, Andrew Carver watches Camera Obscura play an enchanting set of Belle and Sebastian-style pop, but have some of their thunder stolen by the country-influnced sunshine pop of support act the Essex Green


Albums

Re : View-Glove
Blue Sunshine Miscellaneous - Blue Sunshine

In the latest in our Re : View series, in which our writers look back at albums from the past, Anthony Strutt examines 'Blue Sunshine', the 1983 only album of the Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshees' Steve Severin's side project, the Glove