Nite Songs

Regulars on the London alternative circuit for over a decade now (including their Rock 'n' Roll Rendezvous nights at the Unicorn in Camden), Healthy Junkies are one of those bands who've been plugging away on the underground circuit and slowly building a following gig by gig. Forever On The Road  is no less than their fifth album and is the first part of a soundtrack to their documentary On The Road In The USA . From the opener Last Day In LA , it seems it's pretty much business as usual here with the group taking their usual twisted pop-punk approach with Nina's sweetly venomous vocals and Phil's good guitar work backed up with an almost ska-style backing at times. However, as the album goes on, you quickly realise that in keeping with its soundtrack setting, this is actually maybe a lot more varied with atmospheric instrumentals like  Halloween In LA , the epic piano-led Walking Away  and the Danny Elfman style poison waltz of The Sunlight Has Gone  rubbing sh...

  Ahh welcome back to the Nite Songs Singles Bar dear reader. Take a chair, pull up a glass and let's see what we've got on the menu here for October... Well, it looks like the big hitters are out in force this month as  The Damned of all people have a new EP out in the form of The Rockfield Files (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑). Having been a bit disappointed by their Evil Spirits album a couple of years back, I was a little bit apprehensive going into this one but it's actually decent enough with opening track Keep 'Em Alive  sounding like a punked up Pink Floyd of all things (or like an out-take from the excellent Strawberries  album which was also recorded at the titular studio back in the early '80s). Manipulator  meanwhile is a faster number with an agreeable woah-oh-oh  hook line and some strong vocals from Dave Vanian while Spider & The Fly  starts off with a sinister piano-led intro harking back to the band's mid-'80s goth phase before going into a driving g...