MONDAY 1ST FEBRUARY

FLOOD THESE WALLS- Ascending triumphant from the hot ashes of Burn Before You, a Pantera shaped juggernaut of grizzled rock.

VELOCETTE- AC/DC meets Kiss and the marriage is good.

TUESDAY 2ND FEBRUARY

BITTER RUIN- Alluring female fronted outfit reminiscent of Florence and The Machine... Melodic, dark and full of ideas... This one's a definite winner.

MR LOVE AND JUSTICE- A fine meshing of Floyd, Dylan and The Beatles- especially George Harrison. Fantastic musicianship and luverly guitars. You’d have to mention the latter period of XTC too- and this lot likewise hail from Swindonia, the Magical Twin Kingdom of Disneyville…

THURSDAY 4TH FEBRUARY

THE BLACK SAND- The Kills via The Dead Weather.

8 BALL SHIMBASI- Japanese rock n roll along the lines of The Walking Seeds.

FEVERDOGG- Foo Fighters shaped phatness...

CHATTERBOX- Assured indie pop that has some nice touches with filmic bits of dialogue wafting in and stuff...a kind of rockier/rootsier Bloc Party vibe via more groove based stuff.

FRIDAY 5TH FEBRUARY

THE CELLAR FAMILY- Raw garagey punk pop with twists and turns aplenty. Sometimes coming on like the clash then suddenly veering into acid punk and finally landing on an XTC type tip. Good stuff.

I LOVE ZAGREB- Akin to General Fiasco in the surging melodic loveliness stakes.

MORIARTI- Frantic paced indie rock with clean guitars and tumbling riddims. The Only Ones meets early Cure via Kings of Leon??? Some stomping stuff in here, difficult to pigeon hole but good for sure.

DEAD COWBOY CULTURE- Iggy Pop and early Roxy Music with a bit of Tuxido Moon! Robust and effusive jazz-punk style. Original songs and a solid delivery... don't miss them!

SATURDAY 6TH FEBRUARY

I SAW-DINOSOR- The Strokes meets The Rifles.

RASE- Indie rock a la Pigeon Detectives.

FREUDIAN SLIP- Red Hot Chilli Peppered delights.

SENCE- The Kinks' 60s folk with a hip drum beat. We dig. Catchy as fook.

MONDAY 8TH FEBRUARY

TRES RETROS- Garage punk trio with an authentic Stooges meets Standells via The Saints aprroach.

BY DEFINITION- "Beer chug-core". Deftones and Smashing Pumpkins. Certainly a lager swigging grungerama tour de force.

PSYCHOPATH-Sarcastic rock.

TUESDAY 9TH FEBRUARY

PUPPET TEARS- Indie rock.

9 LIVES- A big chunk of funk rock... Think Maroon 5 with a soul singer upfront somewhat in the grip of Stevie Wonder’s tonsils….

FINGERMEN- Metal/ punk band in an Enter Shakari mode mixed meatily with sublime.

MASH ATTACK- Ska punk, with the emphasis on punk and that cool "agitated Robert Smith" vocal style that is prevalent nowadays. Meanwhile his cohorts are yelping out backing vox in the same stylee, and the scratchy punky reggae party keeps a bouncing..

THURSDAY 11TH FEBRUARY

THIS IS NOT A DEAD TRANSMISSION-Mogwai/God save type instro textures meets Joy Divisonout takes with no vox.

HAYABUSA- Sludgey alt rock referencing Radiohead, Elbow and Oceansize. So, proggy bits, expressive bits, angsty vox [with a not unattractive folky lilt]. Then the metally bits hit and they become a very proficient groove rock machine. Well played. Jane's Addiction meets Muse also...and here are some proggy keys worthy of ELP! A decent proposition. Promoting their debut EP titled, "You'll Need Something on Your Feet”

LONDON COMMANDS YOU- A Routemaster being  driven by Billy Corgan drives over Boris Johnson’s head whilst Placebo queue interminably for Madame Tussauds…

THE SAFFRONS- Punky indie... like a chugging Jam meets Arctic Monkeys!

FRIDAY 12TH FEBRUARY

POLLY POISON AND HER ELECTRIC ANTIDOTE-

THE ELECTRIC RED DRIVE- Effervescent energetic garage rock a la 60s, replete with quirky edgy guitar riffs. Real gone party rock'n'roll post punk, smells sweetly of Iggy And The Stooges and The Mooney Suzuki.

AND THE BEAR- Ennio Morricone, Link Wray, the soundtrack to a Tarantino film. Some Mumford & Sons/Fleet Foxes vocal, with a bit of Beirut thrown in. Plus it's only one guy, which is totally boss.

JAMES ROSE- Filthy funk rock.

SATURDAY 13TH FEBRUARY

SMOKEY BASTARD- Think The Pogues played at 100mph... Celtic punk? You could certainly label em thataways…whatever it is, it's fucking brilliant.

THE HEROES- Funky artpop measures are taken down an Arctic Monkeying kinda alley to extremely groovy effect.

AUTUMN STONE- Killers like emotively strung out big pop numbers via Small Faces, Kinks And Beatles influences.

ANDY KYTE- Andy K pitches his groove somewhere between Jamie T and Pete Doherty in solo acoustic mode..... clever lyricism and a generally uplifting oeuvre for sure.. very bloody good actually.

MONDAY 15TH FEBRUARY

THE WORKING GIRLS- Babyshambles style indie rock.

MAMMOTH! MAMMOTH!- Unearthing punky indie like The Libertines meets The Wombats... goodly shouty choruses and also some sparse semi spoken passages pointing to a Velvet Underground vibe  at times....

BIG NUM!- The assured grit and gripping tight rocknroll grooviness of prime AC/DC or ZZ Top via a little Stooges.

TUESDAY 16TH FEBRUARY

2000FASTWOMEN - Snappy indie hip-hop collective with an eclectic array of samples/beats ranging from ambient to what could be Billy Cobham. Hard to pigeon-hole, which is always good. Early Massive Attack perhaps?

A WORD LIKE ATTACK - Post hardcore / progressive sound with explosive drumming. Good energy levels n all.

THE GAS- Stereophonics gravely voiced bluesiness, though better than that. Elements of Oasis and Ocean Colour Scene. Great delivery too.

THURSDAY 18TH FEBRUARY

THE QUALITIES- White Stripes tinged bluesy rock n roll.

WHIM OF GOD- Seductive pop rock from the beautiful Mid pyrenees En France.

JUN AND THE PARADOX MIND- Janglesome yet forceful shugaze gone psychedelia from La Belle France.

FRIDAY 19TH FEBRUARY

GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE- Instrumental post rock... we're thinking Explosions in the Sky... great stuff!

COUGARWOLF SEXHAWK- Groove merchants on an instrumental wigout tip… a soft focus bliss out rocknroll type affair, lots of slinky chords and skipping beats.

RYCO SAINTS - Muse, My Vitriol …all played loud and proud with a lot of fizzing energy... plus the singer's got a wicked vox.

FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY- Drum machine generated plucky african pop via raw punky rythm guitar, kind of like an electro Babyshambles with forays into happy hardcore!

SATURDAY 20TH FEBRUARY

PORCELAIN COINS- Buckley-isms of both a Tim and a Jeff persuasion thru some Idlewildean alt pop.

RAISING SAND- Singer sounds just like Rob Plant but it's a girl, which is nice, and the band are on a tight but loose Led Zep tip with some measure of groove. I'm thinking Grand Funk Railroad via Blue Cheer, an old school heavy blues rock tour de force.

SONNER- Impassioned indie pop sounding a bit like PD Heaton fronting Embrace with a little input from R.E.M. By turn janglesome and surging, and always easy on the ear.

TURNBULL FURY- Motorhead style rockings from Scotland... Heaps of Iggy and the Stooges and an overall punky approach...

MONDAY 22ND FEBRUARY

SHIV LIZZY- 80s female fronted electro pop: Think Goldfrapp, LaRoux, The Ting Tings.

BABYTWIN- nicely pitched folk/alt pop textures. An impassioned vocal performance and some feel for sure- lots of 60s reverberations -The Turtles, Love, Fairport Convention- also more recent stuff like Belle and Sebastian, I Am Kloot and The Clientele and a smidge of Radiohead. ARMACHAIR ORACLES- Hipsters outta Norway- Beatle like choruses, some early David Bowie nuances , Cream , Stones, all sorts of grooviness. 

BENJAMIN SHAW - Kicks off with electronic atmospherics which makes you believe you're heading towards Thom Yorke/Moby territory but suddenly u -turns into fab acoustic folk,  something like a bleaker Frank Turner... Smog is most definitely another touchstone...

TUESDAY 23RD FEBRUARY

SCREAMING SHADOWS- 80's metal sounds are laid down with gusto –from Iron Maiden to Diamondhead, all very well done at that.

KINN- Deep Purple thru Guns N Roses and super duper rawking to boot.

THE LOST SOUL CRUSADE- Kings Of Leon riffs via Nirvana lyrics, with a somewhat Sonic Youth artrock element amidst the kerrangerama…

COLT 442- Bruce Dikinson loves this lot and compares them to Kervdod... A truly amazing grunge metal outfit.

THURSDAY 25TH FEBRUARY

DRAWINGS- Sweetly mixing elements of Indie and Punk. Quality vocals over well thought out subtly progressive music. Awesome.

GROK- Sporting synth x 3 + a bassist doing a slowburning atmospheric widescreen thang that recalls Spiritualized via Can….

BRIGHT LIGHT CITY- Blimey they sound like Big Country, though with the bagpipe guitars replaced by a Futureheads-ish twang- singer does sound like Stuart Adamson though- all pop veined boisterous angst...they have those FHeads like oh oh oh type bvs and do it all more than delightfully. Decent tunes with unexpected hooks, hooks, hooks.

DANE CERTIFICATE- Aussie solo bod who seems to be operating in the sub comical area you might find Ween and early Beck. Pretty interesting blend of garagey blues rock and angsty punker singing. Elsewhere he takes on a little wistful, lyrical Andy Partridge meets Blur style songwriting, sub Nirvana thru Sabs grungings and all sorts really. An alt pop groove overlord….

FRIDAY 26TH FEBRUARY

NO LOVERS- Synth pop punk techno, like Joy Division meets Kraftwerk...

BACKYARD FLAMES- Urgency to go alongside frantic guitar riffing and rumbling bass and punk singing style. Yes! it's a punk rock concoction of the post Green Day American type, though there is an agreeably Rotten-esque leer and sneer to the singer and short sharp soloing that cuts plenty mustard too. Pretty good then. Some more considered rawk appears elsewhere and some neo Zep blues gone badass too.

DAMIEN*- Sort of Pete And The Pirates type razzle dazzle indie rock, a bit more Grrr factor than them though. Buzzsaw guitars, raucous vibes, another bloody good band. Bits of Sonic Youth in the guitars but always with the high pop factor. Play it like they mean it.

SWIFT MANOUVRE- Indie reggae

SATURDAY 27TH FEBRUARY

MENACE- Punk!!!!

THE LEGENDARY TOO DRUNK - The punk rock sound as exemplified by everything from The Undertones to Sham 69 and The Damned- there’s some choice covers accordingly, natch..

SWEINZ- Grunge rock punkisms.

SPIDER REDUNDANT- Punk!!!