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Mutineers: Music Review

I could very easily have created a post by purely adding a list of links to all the reviews that are out there about this band - but this is my take on what they have to offer. I know, I know, its all me me me!

So...let's start at the beginning!
I was alerted to their existence via twitter and I am so glad I was. This is a band that, as soon as I heard their music, I was instantly hooked on. There are four members in the band;

1. Nicholas James Mallins on Vocals
2. Iwan Gronow on Bass
3. Michael Reed on Guitar &
4. Jack Mitchell on Drums - at least for the debut album/ Charles Salt & joining them live Thomas Twemlow.

All have been in other bands before coming together to form the Mutineers (If you check out this link it gives you the bands official bio) and they have been working hard to make it in a notoriously difficult industry. Having formed in 2008, their debut album 'Lovers, Friends, Rivals' was released in 2010 - why am I only hearing of them now?- an…

If music be the food of love, play on.

About two years ago, I decided that I would start going to see more live music. When I say more, I mean some.
My experience up to that point had been limited to
·1 x smash hit poll winners party (1990/91)
I went with my sister who was far too cool to even be there and spent the whole time going out for a cigarette! And she wouldn’t let me stand up! She made me feel quite paranoid when I did. Oh, the teenage years…
·2 x Take That (1992 & 1998)
When I went to see them in 1992, it was all last minute because someone had dropped out, I persuaded my mother to lie to the school about my absence, queued outside the venue (the very small Cambridge corn exchange) all day,  was at the front, endured watching Cicero!, then in the second song I was nearly strangled with a T-shirt that they threw into the crowd, missed the second half through fear of hyperventilating and death, was permanently scarred with the sent of Tribe perfume (the sponsors – does anyone remember that?) and when I got h…