http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ en kev@thebeatsurrender.co.uk Copyright 2008 2008-05-06T17:43:00+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ Every now and again a band comes along that are amazingly upbeat, fun and write cracking indie pop tunes that thankfully don’t sound anything like The Feeling. One such band are Brighton outfit My Federation who have just released their debut album Don’t Wanna Die,… 2008-05-06T17:43:00+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ With any band that you feature it’s nice to see how they develop over a period of time, this is even truer of local bands as you also have a local pride element as well. We’ve featured Jon Jones And The Beatniks Movement a couple of times on this site previously and were keen to… 2008-04-07T13:52:00+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ The Hair are a band that we never tire of telling you about, sooner or later you’ll sit up and take notice of these boys trust me. They’ve already supported The Sunshine Underground, released their album in Japan and are causing a huge stir whenever they play live in Leeds.… 2008-04-07T13:20:00+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ We don’t know what the old ones are like, but we love The New Delamores here at Beat Surrender Towers, Sascha reviewed one of their tracks recently on the Murderous Traffic Compilation and following on from that I took the opportunity to catch up with the trio from Leeds / Castleford… 2008-04-07T12:55:00+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ The Courteeners were tipped well before the end of 2007 to be one of the big breakthrough acts of this year and the lairy Mancs are showing all the right signs of living up to that hype. They’ve hit the top twenty with What Took You So Long, sold out their tour dates and are set… 2008-03-24T18:52:01+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ After my recent review of Primitai’s album “Through The Gates Of Hell”, I was approached to do an online interview with the band. I knocked together a few questions for the guys to try and find a little more about what makes them tick as a band. I hear Brucie… 2008-03-24T15:49:01+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ In January of this year an album sneaked out from a band called Club 8. The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming is a hazy, lush and dreamy pop album, with a modern twist on some of the old Sarah Records and Heavenly bands from yesteryear, I was also amazed to find that… 2008-03-10T16:41:00+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ A few weeks ago I got a single called Amazing sent to me for review, it was by a group called Reel People who i’d never heard of at the time. I loved the nu-jazz/soul feel of the single and am looking forward to reveiwing the group’s second album Seven Ways To Wonder, which… 2008-02-24T19:34:00+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ A month or so ago i’d never heard of a guy called Leon Jean Marie. Then a five track sampler dropped through my door to give me a taster of his forthcoming album. I was hooked immediately on his soul, jazz, funk infusions and i’m pretty sure you will be when you’ve heard his… 2008-02-11T13:14:00+00:00 http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/weekly/interviews/ At the end of December we produced our first ever Top 50 Singles list and in amongst some of the more obvious tracks from last year we also had some little gems. One of those glittering nuggets came in the shape of Norwich band The Brownies and their brilliant Means To An… 2008-01-29T15:49:00+00:00