• Festival Review: Secret Garden Party (Part 2)

    The final day of music rounded off the weekend in excellent fashion, with acts during the day including Beardyman, Hot 8 Brass Band, David Rodigan and a dub reggae set from Craig Richards. The legendary French electronica duo Air pulled off a personal highlight of the festival for the...
  • Festival Review: Secret Garden Party (Part 1)

    Last month was Secret Garden Party, set in the idyllic Cambridgeshire countryside with 20-odd thousand people frothing to get loose as Beetlejuice. The line up was stacked, Mr Sun was smiling, the sweat patches were growing. It was bloody marvellous. Now here’s why… Each year a theme is set...
  • Album Review: Leftfield – Alternative Light Source

    In the sixteen years since the release of their last album ‘Rhythm and Stealth’ in 1999, the departure of co- founder Paul Daley and a 2005 ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation seemed to seal Leftfield’s fate as a relic of the often mythologised 90’s rave scene; a powerful weapon with which...