
SILUETT (Sweden) – Blindside (single) + video
Reading time: 2 minutesI’ve often been blindsided by songs and it’s fair to say that this one did too. ‘Blindside’ is the debut single from SILUETT, a post-punk

Reading time: 2 minutesI’ve often been blindsided by songs and it’s fair to say that this one did too. ‘Blindside’ is the debut single from SILUETT, a post-punk

Reading time: 2 minutesI’ve never seen or heard a ‘sign’ – a warning by way of sight or hearing, a sense of something ‘in the air’ that has

Reading time: < 1 minuteWe don’t get much from Iceland these days. The Sweet Parade (the one man band that is Snorri Gunnarsson, a photographer with a history of

Reading time: 5 minutesWith Scandinavia going on its summer holidays for the next six weeks I reckoned it was time to take in a non-Nordic gig or two.

Reading time: 2 minutesI took a shine to Emil Kárlsen in May when he was last here. He’s from the Northern Sámi community, the area which straddles the

Reading time: 2 minutesWe haven’t had a Weekend Intermission for a while and this is an unusual one in several ways. Ben Fusch is English and does not

Reading time: 2 minutesThat’s the most pertinent question I’ve heard get asked all week, including during our endless UK election debates and then during Biden vs. Trump 2.0.