Musicians – Will Garnett

Album Reviews: My Top 5 Albums Released in May

November 9, 2020April 22, 2021Posted in Album Reviews, JournalismTagged Album, Album of the Month, Album Review, Alternative, America, Art, Blackpool, Boston Manor, Britpop, Cloud Rap, COVID-19, Discover, Emo, Emo Rap, Feature, Freddie Gibbs, Glam, GLUE, Goth, Hayley Williams, hip-hop, Indie-Rock, London, May, Music, Music Feature, Music Journalism, Music Review, Musicians, Netflix, Paramore, Perfume Genius, Petals for Armor, Pop-Punk, Punk, Rap, Review, Rock, Sad Boys, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, Soul, SoundCloud, Starz, Sweden, Synth-Pop, The Alchemist, USA, Yung Lean1 Comment

By the time May came around, each month had started to blur into one, and a feeling of doom and gloom lay rife in the air, as everything that we had looked forward to slowly withered away and was being cancelled, or rescheduled for what would be either the first or second time of many more. Completing a Netflix series had become the norm and no longer an accomplishment, and having walked the 5 mile radius surrounding my London flat a good ten times over, it all started to feel like a Deja Vu. New lockdown hobbies and interests started to fade, and the constant battle to stay motivated was a fortnightly crisis. Even new music wasn’t quite hitting the mark, and some of the albums in this post were listened to retrospectively.

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Feature: Top 10 Music-Related Things to Watch During Lockdown, pt. 2

October 23, 2020April 22, 2021Posted in Features, JournalismTagged (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, A Thousand Suns, Alicia Keys, Alternative, Behemoth, Big Night Out, Britpop, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Discover, Disney+, Dutch Hardcore, DVD, Experimental Rock, Extreme Metal, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Grime, GRM Daily, Hamilton, hip-hop, IDLES, KEXP, Linkin Park, Live At Home, Live In The K! Pit, Live Music, Lockdown, Los Cogelones, Maida Vale, Metal, Mexico, Music, Music Documentary, Music Feature, Music Journalism, Musical, Musicians, New Music, Noisey, NPR, NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Nu-Metal, Oasis, Poland, Polish Metal, Punk, Punk Rock, Quarantine Watches, R&B, Return To Rockfield, Rock, Theatre, Together We Rise, Ultra Mono1 Comment

Back in May when I wrote the first part to this I wouldn’t have believed that I would be writing a second part several months later. Time is a weird thing, and amiss of any live music, festivals and any significant trips away, apart from visiting the Motherland for a few weeks, the months have rolled into one and gone by in a blur. I’ve learnt to accept the situation and know that I cannot control what will happen, counting my blessings each day that the people close to me are safe, and that I’ve not lost anyone during this time. Having worked in music and live events since University, their absence has been hard to come to terms with, and with the Goverment response to this, asking people like myself to retrain, has been somewhat anger-inducing, to say the least. Finally we are now seeing some socially distanced shows happening, and being able to mark them into the diary. It’s great to see a venue that I’ve worked at for the past few years, The O2 Arena, having their first show back on the 5th of December.

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Feature: My Top 5 Musicians Speaking Out on Racism

June 3, 2020August 18, 2020Posted in Features, JournalismTagged Ahmaud Arbery, Akala, Alternative, America, Audioslave, BlackLivesMatters, BlackoutTuesday, Blues, Crime, Emo, England, Fever 333, George Floyd, Hip Hop, History, J Cole, Jason Aalon Butler, Joey Bada$$, Journalism, Letlive, Live Music, London, Metal, Minneapolis, Music, Musicians, Police, Pressure Cracks, Prophets of Rage, Protest Music, Punk, Racism, Rage Against The Machine, Revolution, Rock, Tom Morello, USA, Video1 Comment

Like many, I’ve been following the news of the shocking and appaling murder of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by police in Minneapolis, USA. The consequential outrage of his killing has not only sparked protests there, but spread to other cities in the United States too and across the world, with demostrations in Auckland, Berlin, London, and more. George Floyd’s death, and the circumstances surrounding it, is one of many examples of police brutality and racism towards the black community in America. As things began to boil up over the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, and Breanna Taylor in Louisevill, and the consequent investigation (or the lack of), things have now boiled over to the point where enough is enough, and things need to change. The worldwide response shows that this sort of racist behaviour isn’t just succluded to America, the insututional day-to-day injustices and the things we don’t see, are happening all over.

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