The Big Pink

Bombay Bicycle Club, The Maccabees, The Big Pink and The Drums set for Shockwaves NME Awards Tour Glasgow date

3 Feb 2010

The latest NME tour brings another collection of bands – Bombay Bicycle Club, The Maccabees, The Big Pink and The Drums – looking to put a modern twist on familiar sounds. With sharp, noisy guitars and quivering vocals all round, the tour harks back to…

The Big Pink - Future This

Second electro-pop offering let down by over-egged desire to be anthemic

6 Jan 2012

(4AD) It’s easy to assume that London duo Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell’s oft-scrutinised industry connections have earned them their breaks while ignoring the fact that the dark, feedback and effects-swathed element of their music honours 4AD’s goth…

Single of the month: Trailer Trash Tracys ‘Candy Girl / Strangling Good Guys’

Florence and the Machine, Arctic Monkeys and more also reviewed

5 Jan 2012

Music snobs love to flame Florence and the Machine these days. But as ‘No Light No Light’ (Island) ●●●● proves, Welch does epic, pagan pop pretty much perfectly. Her only crime is that lots of people now like it. They’d no doubt sneer at the recent…

T in the Park 2010: Arriving

T in the Park blog

11 Jul 2010

Well, after some late night decisions on the travel decisions we came up with the most far fetched way to get here. Picking my comrades up from List HQ in the big 1984 Merc (risky business from the start, I tell you) we flew along the motorway like some…

Singles and downloads - February 2010

17 Feb 2010

Let’s start this time with the newie from Sugababes version (counts on fingers) 4.0, because a new Sugababes single, ace or execrable, will always be worthy of discussion. And ‘Wear My Kiss’ (Island) ●●● is certainly blessed with a memorable chorus…

Fangs, French Wives, The Big Pink and Bombay Bicycle Club set for Pinup Nights

1 Feb 2010

Indie heaven at Pin Up Nights this fortnight as they host the NME Awards tour afterparty, with DJ sets from two of the stars of the show: The Big Pink and Bombay Bicycle Club. Plus there are live sets from new wave electro rockers Fangs (pictured) and…

Comanechi - Akiko Matsuura interview

6 Jan 2010

Dalston boy/girl duo Comanechi have been slogging away at the national indie circuit for four years, with only obscurity to reward them. That is, until vocalist and drummer Akiko Matsuura’s other group The Big Pink (she’s their drummer) took off in…

Hitlist: Music

Your fortnightly feast for the ears

2 Oct 2009

Noah and the Whale, Mudhoney and The Vaselines, Invasion, Scarce, The Big Pink, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Music Like a Vitamin, The Dead Weather

The Big Pink interview

Getting dreamy with the indie fuzz debutantes

1 Oct 2009

We’re told The Big Pink’s Robbie Furze is something of a charmer. Quite apt, then, that his band’s debut is all about love, as we imagine, the singer has had a hell of a lot of experience. Furze is on rare downtime and in the middle of dog walking on a…

Upcoming gigs in Scotland: Autumn 2009

10 Sep 2009

Scotland, as we all know, is a hub of great music, great venues and great live audiences. Which is why so many of the world’s great acts forget about the poor weather and poor diet and play here. Add to that list alt-country sorts, and favourites of…

The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love

3 Sep 2009

It’s a shame that John Hughes isn’t around to make movies anymore and that The OC is finished because The Big Pink could have hit pay dirt as the official soundtrackers to both. The London duo may have underground credentials – Sunn 0)))), Merok Records…

The Big Pink

2 Apr 2009

PREVIEW Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze have come a long way since their days of running club nights in a disused horse hospital in Islington. ‘We were both really into industrial noise,’ says Cordell. ‘Just noise. Like kkkssshhh. Kkkrrr. Distorted…