Album Review: Computerclub

[Album: Before The Walls Came Down]
[Label: Split Records]

Birmingham’s Computerclub are the latest in a long line of new bands who sound like they’ve come straight from the 80s. Originally conceived as a way for vocalist Paul Hampton and guitarist Jonathan Baker to escape the “tedious” and “cliché-ridden” bands they were in previously, support slots with […]

Album Review: I Set My Friends on Fire

[Album: You Can’t Spell Slaughter Without Laughter]
[Label: Epitaph]

It’s hard to know what to expect the first time you put I Set My Friends on Fire’s debut album in the CD player. After all, this is a band made who are best known for their reworking of YouTube phenomenon ‘Soulja Boy’, and looking at the album […]

Gig Review: Bossk + Humanfly + Latitudes

[Venue: Underworld, London]
[Date: 11 October 2008]

Over the last few years, Bossk have built up a cult following off the back of their relentless touring and memorable live show. This makes it all the more surprising that tonight’s gig at the Underworld –- their last ever gig together –- hasn’t sold out in advance, but despite […]

Interview: You Me At Six

You Me At Six’s latest album ‘Take Off Your Colours’ has hit the mainstream media by storm and is scheduled to hit to the UK Top 30 this weekend. They have also just announced a number of tour dates supporting Fall Out Boy. Sonic Dice took the opportunity to take a brief word with the […]

Album Review: You Me At Six

[Album: Take Off Your Colours]
[Label: Slam Dunk Records]

If you’ve taken even a cursory glance at the cover of any big name, “alternative” music magazines over the last year or so, the chances are you’ll have heard of You Me At Six. Tours with some of the biggest bands in the ever-overcrowded pop-punk genre (Elliot Minor […]