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The Good Ship band - Demo www.thegoodshipband.co.uk Tunbridge Wells based foursome The Good Ship Band have a professional looking CD and a very slick and well organised website whose ‘feedback’ section does a great job of self-promotion. The enthusiastic audience quotes alone might possibly be completely contrived but to the outsider it looks very impressive nevertheless. The music similarly displays a mature and focused approach, with touches of Springsteen and Coldplay’s Chris Martin infusing the writing and the tone of lead vocalist Jez Harley’s fl exible voice. Whether or not this style of commercial AOR fl oats your boat there is no denying that it is superbly recorded and immaculately played. It’s also unashamedly


middle of the road but the band obviously has an eye on mainstream success, as demonstrated by the anthemic ‘Boomerang Girl’s sweeping alt-country sound which suggests that greater things are yet to come.


Lovehead - Vanity Project www.lovehead.co.uk


Anglo Scottish band Lovehead delivered a pokey-sounding demo stuffed with big guitars and a fi stful of tunes that apparently aspire to weave together a sleazy glam vibe with strands of post Britpop edginess and on the whole it succeeds. The infl uences are fairly clear to spot - there is no denying that the spirit of David Bowie at his late 1970s peak stalks, spectre-like through the LP’s core – but unlike most bands that wear their infl uences so boldly on their sleeves Lovehead still have their own distinctive sound and style. This is a fun project that doesn’t confuse light heartedness


with a lack of depth or sense of purpose, the band clearly know their favoured music inside out and deliver with panache and the necessary rock and roll swagger.


Luke Scott Dumper - Different Perspective www.myspace.com/lukedumper


Enigmatic foghorn-voiced acoustic troubadour Luke Dumper hasn’t thought to include any details about himself apart from a MySpace address scribbled on the face of his CD demo. The lack of any real info, plus a home produced CD cover with barely legible sleeve notes also illustrates a self indulgence and a distinct lack of marketing nous that doesn’t do Luke any favours. But what about the music? Sadly, this is also a disappointment, a horrible acoustic/indie folk thrash delivered with a shrieking vocal that Luke probably reckons sounds ‘impassioned’. However, if he pitched up next to you at Glastonbury, whipped out his guitar and tried to regale you with this tosh at 3AM,


we guarantee that you be pulling out his tent pegs within minutes. Drivel.


Velvet Razor - Rainbow Warriers www.velvetrazor.com


Velvet Razor evidently have a strong social conscience. Their sprawling website features a self-produced video accompanying their original tune ‘Victims of Love’, which highlights the harrowing plight of the homeless and abused. The video is quite effective but the song itself isn’t that much to write home about, there is no discernable chorus and the drummer sounds like he is falling off the back of the kit! To be fair, when the band begin to gel it’s doubtful that even Guns N’ Roses could match Velvet Razor in terms of sheer self-belief. The boundless enthusiasm ploughed into every note proves beyond all doubt that they are lost in rock and roll and loving every minute! Whilst Velvet Razor might not be quite as good as they probably think they are; there is still something engaging about their


adventurous approach that is very diffi cult to dislike. Bonkers, perhaps, but no less entertaining for it. 8 pickup


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