Simon Garner

Film taste: Ad hoc & embarrassing

Music taste: ex-political punk pre-empting the burnt out ex-raver phase

Hangout: Where the beers at?

Most likes (about London): So many places to eat tasty, tasty food!

Least likes: Very expensive beer

Me in 10 words: As I've aged my beard has grown shorter and shorter

Simon's Articles

Outfit have mixed emotions - 21 May

Coming from London by way of Liverpool, Outfit are the UK’s only purveyors of Teary Disco&trade...... read more

DZ DEATHRAYS are Drinking Responsibly - 14 May

Two-piece ‘thrash pop’ band DZ DEATHRAYS (all caps, as Madvillain might say) are the Australian...... read more

Blood Red Shoes are off the Map - 30 April

As hard as it is to believe, before 2004 indie gigs were pretty boring. All you’d get was either...... read more

Three Trapped Tigers are making it up - 25 April

Three Trapped Tigers is a multi-instrumental, six-legged, six-armed and three headed hyperkinetic beast...... read more

The Futureheads are going vocal - 29 March

The Futureheads' brand of angular new wave and post-punk has was always underpinned by a sense of irreverence...... read more

Listen Here: Juk Juk - 7 March

Juk Juk is another one of those prodigiously talented young people that makes me sick with envy. His...... read more

Kylesa at the O2 Academy Islington - 27 February

The fact that the guy I’m stood next to at the bar has the Punisher symbol tattooed on his arm...... read more

NZCA/Lines are from the Future - 16 February

NZCA/Lines is Michael Lovett and three piece, who are pretty much London’s finest purveyors...... read more

Review: patten at CAMP - 20 January

He could be any one of the people in here, but patten is almost certainly in the crowd of people gathered...... read more

The many sides of Radical Face - 18 January

Radical Face is the folk-y solo project of Floridian Ben Cooper, who is also half of glitchy elctro-folk...... read more

Spoonfed's Ones to Watch in 2012: Daughter - 20 December

“Bruised but powerful”: Elena Tonra mulls this over. As the singing half of Daughter it is...... read more

Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler at Bush Hall - 16 December

As you may have noticed from the lights down Oxford Street and the thousands of stressed out shoppers...... read more

The Schizophrenic World of Mariachi El Bronx - 14 December

Three takes, no do-overs; The Bronx are a bunch of guys from LA who embody the hardcore ideals of community...... read more

Going Underground: Meeting London's Buskers - 30 November

As well as being a good place to find work and the only place in England where you can buy bagels at...... read more

Gang Gang Dance explore the Astral Plane - 25 November

Simultaneously maintaining an ear for the killer hook, and threading their albums through with the kind...... read more

Trogons head Back to the Future - 28 October

Like The Wicker Man, Black Widow and Sauron, Trogons sit out in the darker reaches of psyche-rock. If...... read more

Binnacle Festival looks Epic - 10 October

Russ Tannen has to be one of the busiest people in East London at the moment, and to make it worse, it&rsquo...... read more

Plaid are anything but Plain - 3 October

If one band encapsulates Warp Records' stranger tendencies, then it has to Plaid. Starting out in the...... read more

Alpha-Ville 2011 - 3 October

Seeing that all visions of mankind’s technological future seem to paint the society of tomorrow...... read more

Found Sounds: Beaty Heart - 22 September

Sort of like Peckham’s very own Liquid Liquid, Beaty Heart make experimental pop that blends Afro...... read more

Found Sounds: Bastard Sword - 25 August

The name Bastard Sword makes me think of either a) Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay or b) that isometric RPG...... read more

Review: run,WALK! at the Borderline - 22 August

During World War II, renowned polymath Jacob Bronowski worked in secret for Allied Bomber Command. He...... read more

Brontide suck at Table Football - 15 August

Brontide are purveyors of excellent, hook-laden progressive math-rock and right now they’re on...... read more

Who you gonna call? Ghosting Season - 12 August

Ghosting Season are worriedaboutsatan. Well, more accurately Ghosting Season are Gavin Miller and Thomas...... read more

Becoming Real and Nosaj Thing at XOYO - 8 July

Standing outside XOYO the tension is quite literally palpable. The dull thud of bass resounds in the...... read more

Bachelorette at CAMP - 27 June

Fresh off the back of a tour supporting fellow Antipodeans The Phoenix Foundation, Bachelorette, or Annabel...... read more

Wye Oak Love Belgium - 21 June

Baltimore Girl/boy duo Wye Oak play dreamy folk that isn’t afraid to get noisy. Latest album 'Civilian'...... read more

Carnivores at the Shacklewell Arms - 2 June

They are all so young. I am stood in the back room of the Shacklewell Arms, feeling old. A motley crew...... read more