30 Seconds to Mars – ‘This is War’ Review
Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by slicktiger in Music, featured
I’m all for a little on-stage banter at rock concerts, it’s nice when Mr Big Rich Rockstar acknowledges the thousands of screaming fans that have just financed his new holiday house in the Hamptons, but when Jared Leto opened his mouth to speak (read: swear) between songs at Cokefest 2008, the general consensus was that [...]
SlickTiger reviews the Killers gig
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by slicktiger in Blogs, Music, featured
South African audiences suck. We have absolutely no idea how to rock out and you can’t really blame us. Overseas there are hundreds of excellent bands playing every weekend and in cities like London they are totally spoilt for choice when it comes to concerts and artists.
Not so all the way down in darkest Africa. [...]
Slicktiger’s albums of the year ‘09
Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by slicktiger in Music, featured
Ok, here are my top 10 albums of 2009, starting from least favourite to favourite:
10. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone.
A really surprising album for me because a) I had no idea who Neko Case was and b) her lyrics are so powerful, you’d swear an angry man wrote them. The second track hooked me the [...]
Album Review: Pearl Jam – ‘Backspacer’
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by slicktiger in Music, featured, music-reviews
Pearl Jam is undoubtedly one of the Titans of rock music, the band has been playing for the last 19 years, has recorded 9 studio albums, has sold an estimated 60 million records worldwide and is pretty much the only surviving band of the grunge rock explosion that was the early 90s.
You’d be hard pressed to [...]
Arctic Monkeys ‘Humbug’ Review
Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by slicktiger in Music, featured, music-reviews
Just the fact that I’m actually sitting (ok, lying)down to write this at the end of a long and painful day is testament to how impressed I am by what the boys from Sheffield have whipped out with ‘Humbug’.
I guess a couple of disclaimers should be mentioned before I launch into this and the first [...]
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