Wonderland.
Friendly Fires
Aged 14, St Albans school friends Ed Macfarlane, Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge formed First Day Break. “It was all guitars, no vocals… far too serious,” says Gibson. University changed all that. Thanks to a student diet of German techno and Prince, in came romantic melodies, propulsive drumming and rib-rattling bass. In 2006, three months […]
Lykke Li
Hyperactive pop sprite Lykke Li talks to Wonderland about unrequited love, sounding like a little girl and wishing she was Tom Waits.
Black Mountain
Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Josh Wells are five longhaired Canadian stoners on a crusade. When they’re not unleashing epic psychedelic rock on bleary-eyed revellers as Black Mountain, they’re busy helping out at Insite – a Vancouver-based charity for the chronically poor, drug addicted and mentally ill. Not many bands can […]