Messages and Souvenir – the latter sung by co-founder Paul Humphreys, stepping out from behind his keyboard – are electronic symphonies almo

Kwadrat, Krakow, 16/5/10 What is post-rock? In essence, it seems, and this is by no means a definitive explanation, it is music which utilizes guitar, drum, ...

Loch Ness, Krakow, 30/11/09 For a minute tonight, I thought I had entered a zoo. A zoo with a rampant and bloodthirsty (though rotund) wild animal set free f...

Forty Kleparż, Krakow, 10/5/10. There is a new venue in Krakow, and it’s slowly but surely starting to put on some acts which are gaining it a reputation as ...

Tauron Arena, Krakow, 7/2/18 It's a strange fascination that eastern Europeans have with Depeche Mode. Much like The Cure, there is something about their sen...

Park Loników, Krakow, 4-5/6/10 The second Selector Festival in Krakow, an electronic/dance event, took place over the first weekend of this month, following ...

Łażnia Nowa, Krakow, 5/5/10 Trudging through the rain, a particularly grim introduction to summer 2010; an obscure theatre in Nowa Huta, a nameless street so...

Rotunda, Krakow, 8/11/09 Rotunda was not exactly packed to the rafters for this evening’s niche performers, an eclectic and terribly serious bunch based in t...

Studio Club, Krakow, 29/11/09 The Editors, it seems, have no sense of doubt in what they could achieve. On the release of The Back Room in 2005, the Birmingh...

Fabryka Club, Krakow, 9/11/10 The Futureheads were a post-punk band from Sunderland who existed between 2000-2013. They surfed the wave of UK indie guitar ba...

Rotunda, Krakow, 9/12/09 “This moustache kills fascists” proclaimed the T-shirt of a skinny, excited-looking kid waiting in a very long line outside Rotunda ...

Fabryka Club, Krakow, 5/11/10 The musical world has changed radically since Tricky’s stupendously popular, genre-inventing 1995 album Maxinquay; trip-hop has...

Studio Club, Krakow, 22/7/11 Disappointment: a word Morrissey might identify with. Not the kind of disappointment that leaves you feeling short-changed, or w...

Studio Club, Krakow, 22/2/11 Only a handful of bands have the ability to sell out venues with minimal advertising or fuss and yet remain relatively unknown. ...

Forty Kleparż, Krakow, 2/10/11 This is a review I wrote seven years ago, and for several reasons I've decided to put it up on my website; first, the band is ...