'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Natasha Lee, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Perisher Snowy Mountains Of Music
The festival mightn’t yet enjoy the same kind of notoriety as say Falls or Splendour, but give this baby some time and it will be locked down in every music lovers’ calendar as a must-do.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Empire Of The Sun - Ice On The Dune
Don’t let the repetitive arc of the first single from the album, Alive, fool you. The Empire are back, in all their grandiose glory.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: KT Tunstall - Invisible Empire//Crescent Moon
As the album proves, heartache, it seems, suits Tunstall to a tee.
Features / Music
Culture Club
"I left school and started my band when I was 14. The first thing I started playing was heavy metal and slash metal, so I learnt how to rock out at an early age."
Features / Music
One Man Band
"I’ve been getting some amazing feedback from the musical community and now I keep thinking to myself, why didn’t I do this sooner?"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay
Steady, simple and beautiful, The Ash And Clay is heartache-soothing material that proves folk is not dead.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Vaudeville Smash - Dancing For The Girl
The cheek and breeze of their earlier material, like 2011’s Roller Disco and 2010’s Hey, are sorely missing, only to have been replaced by an addiction to a samey-samey disco-inspired chord progression, a shtick that just gets plain boring by the end.
Features / Music
Go South
"Folk music is born out of struggle and hard times. The weight of its momentum and the amplitude of its vibration give it everlasting life."
Features / Music
White Here, White Now
"For me, it’s about finding where you fit and finding where your strengths are and then making the most of that. Over the past year, I’ve been in a place where that’s happening more and more."
Features / Music
The Imaginarium
"All the shows were so big, you know? Fifty thousand up, you know, festivals, people banging stuff, girls throwing bikinis on stage."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
The tunes lack the versatility of her earlier releases, giving the album a ‘this song sounds kinda like the last one’ feel.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Junip - Junip
The entire sound of the album is something of an easy listening masterpiece – which is kind of really an oxymoron of sorts.
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