December 2012
Beautiful shimmering melodies with a cheeky understated sense of humour. Legend has it that Free Swim was born out of missed opportunity. The band's Facebook bio explains thus...
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November 2012
Theatrical and at times cinematic, God is in the TV described her latest album Don’t Sleep as “more of a musical novel to be explored and savoured”. After fronting two very successful bands, and touring Italy, Spain (she’s multi-lingual) and the US, Rebekah went solo. Her material solo material is a departure from her previous bands’ foundations, being influenced more by her Spanish roots and Arabic leanings as well as artists such as Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, and Sonic Youth.
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October 2012
Like a phoenix from the flames Let’s Meet Jesus arose from the ashes of old Kooba favourites, Elephant vs. Leopard, with a renewed sense of purpose & inspiration. Their live shows, in my humble opinion, are second to none & have to be seen to be believed.
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September 2012
It was the inspired band name that first drew me to Dingus Khan. It sums up the music so well – a blend of namesake Genghis' ferocity and the silliness you would expect from something called Dingus.
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August 2012
Serioulsy heavy, serioulsy intricate, seriously Progressive. Nice
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July 2012
This band first blew me and the audience away at a packed ‘Playhard’ event in Camden; stood in the crowd, mouth agape in sheer awe! This band had me captivated with every strum of their instrument, hook, lyric and drum line!
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June 2012
Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward & Fisher, or AMWWF for short (we are pronouncing it Amwoof) are a Dundee's premier folk super group. The quintet formed following the demise of much loved Dundonian indie bands such as Luva Anna, The Law and Magdalen Green, with refugees from each group pooling their talents as AMWWF.
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May 2012
Qunk, is how they describe their sound. Sort of quirky pop punk. They write love songs to their mobile phones (QT 1000) and about IVF (Breeding Lady). These songs will stay in your head for days.
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April 2012
Nominatied as a band of the month for their jaunty jingly jittery tunes and cheeky wordplay
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March 2012
Vintage Crow are an exciting up-and-coming four-piece Progressive Hard Rock/Metal Group that reside from Reading/Maidenhead.
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February 2012
Intelligent electronic indie pop. Oxo Foxo is a female solo artist from Sheffield.
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January 2012
Phillious Williams is maybe a real person or maybe my grandfather was just a good story teller. This Grandfathers Grandfather sailed on a clipper ship…’The Cutty Sark’ many years ago, His name can be found on the logbook, so I know this part is true.
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December 2011
The Amateur Transplants are Dr Adam Kay and Dr Suman Biswas, two sweary boozy musicians who gave up their prosperous medical careers as qualified doctors to sing puerile parody songs.
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November 2011
Sooooo Wonk Unit, their debut album was Flying the Japanese Flag, it had front man Alex Johnson naked on the cover, his cock covered in menstrual blood. Nice!
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October 2011
Pigshackle were formed in 2003 but didn’t actually release their EP Epig until 2007. After that, shit got real. They played a tonne of shows & learnt how do to things with instruments that hadn’t been previously thought possible.
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September 2011
Dignan Porch is a London based band which was instigated by Joe Walsh (ex Artefacts For Space Travel) in 2009. The band was snapped up by the hip US independent label Captured Tracks immediately after Joe posted the first Dignan tracks online.
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August 2011
No one in Bill Davro is actually called Bill Davro. From the town of Warrington, jostled between Liverpool and Manchester, the pop trio of Bill Davro avoid the obvious musical cultures of those two larger cities to plot a musical course of their own; creating rich voiced modern skiffle pop, but of a timeless/other time from a golden, other worldly, parallel 'the North'.
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July 2011
This is one of those ideas that has you face-palming in shock that you didn't think of it first. But we didn't – Jim Burke late of Collapsed Lung did. The minute I heard the first track from his original long-player, Flattery Not Included, I knew he had Kooba written all over him.
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June 2011
Chief Black Kettle was a leader of the Southern Cheyenne who was killed by General Custer in 1868. Quite what he has to do wth Koobas Band of the Month for June, I have no idea. What I can tell you is that Boston indy rockers are receiving a fair amount of play on Kooba right now.
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May 2011
Dormant Figure from Dundee - Band of the month for May 2011. Sounds like: The best brooding and passionate elements of Joy Division and The Editors but with enough of their own subtle joie de vivre to make them unique and distinctive.
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April 2011
TradeMark G founded The Evolution Control Committee (ECC for short) in 1987 and they have been pioneers in the world of bootleg mash-ups ever since. The are best known for their underground hit “Rocked By Rape” which sees CBS’s Dan Rather fused to Back In Black by AC/DC.
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March 2011
Jenny Lockyer is our band of the month for March 2011. We first encountered Jenny when she and Jonny Yeah both contributed their voices to MJ Hibbett's rock Opera Dinosaur Planet. You've probably heard tracks from her 9 track album “Fluff” on our early 2011 shows.
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February 2011
This band who are well loved in Hong Kong for their harmonious pop are also possibly on the verge of taking on the world; with a recent feature in world famous TIME magazine hailing them as one of the top 5 bands of Asia to check out in 2011.
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January 2011
Sounds like: Feline rockabilly blues punk. History: Formed in Basingstoke in 2008/2009, the band began life as simply “The Johnsons” and quickly gained notoriety for their blistering live sets and the on-stage antics of cat-headed lead singer Pussycat.
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December 2010
The Guilty Hands formed from the ashes of a former project featuring band mates Gareth, Paul and Martin. Soon after uploading their first few demos in 2009 they won £15,000 from user-vote based website Slice The Pie.
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November 2010
Cockney punk skiffle hip hop. Milk Kan started out as due Scrappy Hood and Jimmy Blade who busked together in London before temporarily relocating to New York where they honed their live act in bars and clubs across the Lower East Side.
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October 2010
Elliot Mason - Band of the Month October 2010. A singer songwriter with a uniquely surreal style. Marrying the mundane and the unexpected to hilarious effect. ter escaping the Isle of Wight, Eliott had a short stint writing and producing musical comedy sketches for channel 4's Eleven O Clock show before embarking on a glittering career of unnerving punters and promoters in pubs across the UK.
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September 2010
All the best of Pearl Jam, sprinkled with Alice in Chains & a generous lashing of Audioslave. Simmer gently, but don’t over heat. Eeerrrm don’t really know what to say about these guys, I met them when they played a show at the New Cross Inn. I was drunk & thoroughly enjoyed their set & so begged them for a free CD after the show to play on Kooba.
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August 2010
Left With Pictures – Band of the Month August 2010. Beautifully innocent avant garde psychedelic orchestral chamber pop. LWP consists of a bunch of classically trained musicians from London. Formed in 2005, the year in which we first played them on Kooba...
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July 2010
Everything and nothing you’ve ever heard before! Instantly loveable, fun, pop-rock tunes completely unique vocals. The fantastic five, Austin, Jamie, Nick, Ian & Dan formed in 2007, through a network of siblings, ex- girlfriends, and the rest, as they say, is on their MySpace!
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June 2010
Lashings of old-school groove with a newer, bigger sound, magical bluesey solo’s laid over funk laden bass-lines, pounding drums power FAT riffs and soaring vocal lines that make your feet tap and your drinking arm move.
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May 2010
The Lucky Face - Band of the Month May 2010. Sounds like: The greatest and glossiest sounds of 1963 – 1969 filtered through a modern mindset. Like Donovan backed by The Band and produced by Phil Spector. The Lucky Face, aka Tim Mullineaux, is a prolific solo artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, 60s music aficionado, erstwhile guitarist on 8 Year Old Mum (a band he shares with Kooba favourite Blabbermouth), and a thoroughly great bloke to have a drink with.
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April 2010
If HP Lovecraft had started an electro band, that specialised in psychedelia by way of Japanese pop - it would sound something like this. It also explains the unhealthy obsession with jellyfish.
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March 2010
If the Manics, rather than coming from “the Valleys”, had instead come from the Chelmer Valley. And instead of pseudo-Anarcho-Marxist rants (Which I have always found hard to figure if you're signed a corporate major label), The Library Suits' anthems don't attempt to be achingly cryptic; therefore making them instantly more heartfelt, and infinitely more honest.
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February 2010
Well, depending on which album you listen to, you'll hear heavy rock, metal, punk, pop and even prog rock. The constant with everything however, is a world class production ethic, quirky lyrics, a fine sense of song construction and a very tight hard rockin band.
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January 2010
Discovered by John Peel in 2001, Bearsuit quickly became a highly regarded act on the indie circuit. They have built their sizable reputation upon several UK tours, a handful of well received 7” singles and several LPs, the most recent of which, “oh:io” in 2009, was the first to catch our attention here at Kooba Radio.
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