The music industry is littered with mercurial characters. If nothing else it’s a way of creating a mystique and intrigue around your music and often makes for an entertaining read. Just look at the way NME have been living off soundbites from the Gallagher brothers for the last couple of years. They are journalistic gold. […]
Omelettes, Girl Bands & Sneezing: an Interview with The Big Moon
Indie rock bands that are worth listening to are somewhat few and far between at the moment. The Big Moon have ideas however, with the refreshing all-female four-piece set to drop their debut album, Love in the 4th Dimension, this Friday – a record that has already spawned a number of ear-worming singles that have climbed the BBC playlists. […]
Preview: NME Awards Tour
The current British indie scene resembles something close to a barren musical wasteland of copycats, wannabe’s and has-beens. Only last week Leicester-based rockers Kasabian declared guitar music as ‘dead’. With the red-haired, corporate people pleaser Ed Sheeran standing aloft the charts and breaking records left, right and centre there has been little to no reaction […]
An Afternoon with Laura Marling
Some artists are worth the 254 kilometre journey from Exeter to London. Laura Marling is one of those, as Exeposé Music hop aboard the Megabus to catch the British folk songstress perform at an exclusive student press conference at Goldsmiths University in South-East London. With the guiding hand of BBC Radio 1’s Jen Long and […]
Live Review: Frightened Rabbit @ Bristol Trinity
Playing in a repurposed old gothic church couldn’t be any more suiting for Frightened Rabbit’s melancholic brand of alternative rock. Having grafted their way from relative obscurity with the release of Sing the Greys back in 2006, Frightened Rabbit’s latest release Painting of a Panic Attack has seen them rubbing shoulders with some of indie […]
Live Review: Billy Bragg & Joe Henry @ Exeter Corn Exchange
In my two and a half years as an Exeter student, I like to pride myself on having been to most of the various venues and makeshift music spaces the city has to offer. From the sizeable Great Hall, to the currently under reconstruction Cavern, I’ve witnessed musicians from a number of genres perform, but […]
Live Review: Whitney & Julia Jacklin @ Thekla, Bristol
US indie band Whitney have really been bubbling under the surface in 2016, only to sneak onto some of the most prestigious Album of the Year lists this month, something that will surely find them a far wider audience as they continue to tour their debut album Light Upon the Lake into 2017. Channeling a […]
Feature: Class of 2017 – Up and Coming Artists
With 2016 swiftly coming to a close, it is time to set our gaze to the upcoming year and the many different musical talents it will provide us with. Here at Exeposé Music we like to think we have our finger on the pulse, as Rory Marcham, Music Editor, attempts to predict who will be […]
Preview: Frank Turner @ Exeter Great Hall
Very few artists are as dedicated to their craft as the Hampshire troubadour. Having already conquered the likes of Wembley Arena, The O2 and Royal Albert Hall, you’d be inclined to question Frank Turner’s need to play venues in smaller cities like Exeter. After all, playing to a few hundred people in a University hall […]
Live Review: Michael Kiwanuka @ Exeter Phoenix
I t’s a fairly safe statement to say that Exeter doesn’t always attract the biggest or best names in music. However, every now and then in amongst the early 00s pop punk acts and dad rock bands of yesteryear you’ll find a gem. On this occasion it happened to be double Mercury prized award nominated […]