Archive for May, 2010

Posted on May 31, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Cought in a Tender Trap

Tender Trap doesn’t need any presentation for real lover of the indie scene. A true band icon of the scene, this little band from London is the epythome of a pure indie gist at the apex of its perfection, quite a brit response to other “tiger-band” from beyond the sea. Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research are only part of a natural evolution that brought Miss Amelia Fletcher to cheer up our days with brand new refined perfect pop gems. No wonder I wasted my only chance to ask her about the most hidden secrets of indie pop for… cheap-chats!! Here we go…

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Posted on May 30, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Indie O’Clock: Tiny Tide and Nothing Meets All

The first show by a young indie-prog band called Nothing Meets All (though their acronym is often taken for the mysterious L.B.D.B.D.C.) was the sweetest excuse to team up from another band from the same town called… Tiny Tide! (more…)

Posted on May 30, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

It’s cool to be skulls

I must admit that I knew so few about “Band of skulls”. I just listened to a couple of tracks on a random social network and decided that if it took so much for them coming to Italy from Southampton (I heard them chat at dinner and I thought their fat asses were from NY) a visit to the show would have been a cool way to spend a Friday night. (more…)

Posted on May 30, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Dum Dum Girls Vs Dumb Dumb Fan

There was quite an expectation for Dum Dum Girls concert, and once in a lifetime all this fuckload of hype was faithful to itself, and we all came together on the summer strand of Hana Bi beach in Ravenna to enjoy possibly the most glamorous concert of summer 2010. (more…)

Posted on May 25, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Getting Ready For Indietracks 2010

There’s absolutely no doubt: IndieTracks will be the main summer festival being able to attract worldwide indie fanboys from all over globe’s bedrooms feelin’ in their bones the desperate need to get back to The island just like Jack used to bark about on the American tv serie LOST. (more…)

Posted on May 24, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Quasi Fan

Thanks to Bronson and Covo Club and two gigs not so far from each others also in matter of  temporal coordinates,  I accidental managed to crown the unconscious dream of seeing two of my favourite niche bands from the past. Both short named, both underground heroes from the grunge era, both listened to a cult program called RAI Stereonotte (the Italian bro of John Peel sessions), both in the perfect mixtape I made on 1993 that the bass player of my fist band never gave me back. We already told you about Polvo, it was now time for a band called Quasi. (more…)

Posted on May 19, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

The Barry Bianco Interview

Once in lifetime I was the one being interview.

Barry Bianco is a star in the Neo Italo Movement scene. Tracks like “Body in the night” and “Draeming Alive” has became some sort of a cult between Italomaniacs, and his video quite a legend after YouTube closed his account after discovering they were made after secret director’s cut of Belene Thomas feathurings on a Switz Show. Barry today is our special guest, interviewing Mark Zonda, the man behind the Neo Italo Movement and founder of Kingem Records along with Marie-Agnès Hallé.

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Posted on May 18, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Ant Matters

The last marvellous Eardrums Music seasonal collection of free new indie talents was the sweetest excuse to go back to some artists I used to listen when I was just a little indie boy. Ant (Antony Harding) was no exception at all, and I was so surprised and happy (let’s say it: jealous too!) to hear him singing for the italian post-pop orchestra Loud Off! Since we recently interviewed them I couldn’t find no better excuse to catch up with Ant as well.

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Posted on May 14, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Messer Chups invasion

It’s really hard to tell what life will bring to your night outs. As for me this week I deserved a vampire russian band doin’ garage surf with a lot of old b-movies references. The funny thing was that when I tried to explain what happened to me the night before at Lego Club in Cesena, I was the one looked up to just like it was ME being the alien! (more…)

Posted on May 10, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

A Place to bury audience

Since I didn’t want to take the risk of being left outside the venue like recently happened for Turing Brakes, I got to Bronson really early, so my destiny was to being left outside anyway, since it was too soon to enter. The Brothers Movement just arrived from Amsterdam. Jumped on the stage for a 10 minute sound check that was jet leg-proof and absolutely faultless. Sound was überloud even from outside the walls of Bronson. (more…)