Mew – Jonas Bjerre (singer) – Obelisk Arena – Demark
1. Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this year’s Latitude festival across the Arenas (Obelisk, Uncut, Comedy, Theatre, Literary and Poetry, Film & Music) and why?
I hope to get to see Bat For Lashes among others. There’s a bunch of bands playing that I am not familiar with, so I hope there’s time to walk around and take the music in.
2. What aspect of Latitude Festival interests you the most and why?
I like the fact that it offers …

June has proven to be an extremely fruitful month for finding new artists here at The Blue Walrus. Among the many demos that have landed on my desk, a few have stood out as pioneers of the music of our 2009 British summertime. Here’s a quick introduction to my three favourites…

Gold Teeth can only be described as naughty-good fun. I first saw them supporting Athlete at the Norwich Waterfront a couple of weeks ago, and was thoroughly impressed by their down-to-earth and audience-involving antics. The music is energetic pop rock …

One of the leaders in the resurgence of folk that has occured over the past 18 months or so are Noah and the Whale, and I was delighted to find this title track off their new album entitled entitled “The First Days of Spring” pop up in my inbox this morning.
This new track seems to mark a bit of a change in direction for the band, moving a little away from their happy clappy folk roots of their debut, to a more reflective and grand sound which reminds me in …

The Blue Walrus favourites Mumford & Sons have just announced a nationwide tour this autumn, in addition to their numerous festival appearances this summer. The dates of the autumn tour are as follows:
12th September @ Glasgow, King Tuts
13th September @ Nottingham, Bodega
14th September @ Manchester, Ruby Lounge
15th September @ Bristol, Thekla
16th September @ London, Scala
18th September @ Aberdeen, Café Drummonds
19th September @ Inverness, Loopalu
21st September @ Newcastle, The Clunt
22nd September @ Hull, Adelphi
23rd September @ Leeds, Cockpit
24th September @ Sheffield, The Plug
29th September @ Birmingham, Glee Club
30th September @ Oxford, …

More photos from the night can be viewed here.
The evening began with two incredible but very different support acts – a solo singer-songwriter affair with an electro-acoustic guitar and an unwashed look about him, and an astounding and electrifying indie-rock band called Gold Teeth that fall somewhere between Hard-Fi and The Maccabees. The latter band were charismatic and friendly, and made the time to talk to fans, sign CDs and generally make a nuisance of themselves  (in a good way) after their set; watch this space to find out more …

Whilst mindlessly procrastinating over some work this morning, I stumbled across an utterly amazing band called Animal Kingdom. They make alternative rock-infused ballads reminiscient of Coldplay and Travis, and are playing Latitude Festival (Suffolk) and Monmouth Festival (Wales) among their other tour dates this summer. You can check them out here.
Let me know what you reckon!
-Lauren Razavi