Body & Soul 2011 Line-Up: Summer’s Comin’, Wahooo!

Teamsters, I’m old. Not actually old, at a sprightly 23 and still with all my own teeth I’ll have you know, but brain-old. I like tea and cardigans and older men, none of them in an ironic or hipster sense. I’m no longer very good at coping with the filth factor of going to Oxegen (literal filth, I’m not particularly bothered by hawt action two tents over or anything like that). I like my Electric Picnic it’s gotta be said, I’ll be havin’ a bit of that. But I want my cheap, laid-back, festival-with-a-difference and damn if those guys over at Body&Soul aren’t going to give it to us (me - whoever, it’s not always about syntax). Sit up and pay attention, there will be an Indie quiz (pop quiz, indie quiz - see what I did there?). Body&Soul is back for a second year after it’s inaugural 2010 festival … There’s more

New Music: Red Brick House

New music for the weekend? Free music for the weekend? Sure why not? Red Brick House are Patrick, Les, Danny and Peter from Sligo, an indie-rock bunch with alt-pop, folk and bluesy leanings. They’ve just released their debut EP and they’re so keen for you to get stuck into it that they’ve made it a free download. They’re very liberal that way. The EP is made up of four rock-bop tracks that had me bouncing about at my desk yesterday, which is no small accomplishment considering I’m elbow deep in recession at the moment. Riff-heavy and catchy as a stagedive; you really can’t go wrong with this one, kids. You can grab a listen from Soundcloud or download the EP in its entirety from Bandcamp, and stick it in your iPod/perfectly acceptable non-Apple alternative for the nice spring sunshine. Oh yes. First track, In My Head, and last track, Broke … There’s more