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I have posted reviews on bands from Manchester and London so far and I thought I should write one about a local band from Milton Keynes - but my (unwritten) rules are that they must follow me on Twitter to get my attention and sadly none from MK have.

But...
...there is a band called Catching Rockets from a town about 30 minutes away from here (Nothampton) So I decided to check out what they have to offer. **EDIT: ust discovered that they rehears in MK, so I am gonna claim them as my local band :P - hope they don't mine!**


Firstly, what I found out about them...
Originally a 2 piece, they are now a 3 piece stomp acoustic band made up of Steve Marshall, Jack Frankland and Sam Richardson. Their debut EP was released in April 2012 and its called 'for then, now and future reference'. If like me, you just read 'stomp acoustic' and thought, huh?! Well, there is no simple definition but I am interpreting it as acoustic music with a constant heavy beat throughout, as if you…

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…

I was going to throw caution to the wind and just skip an intro - but then I thought, that's SO not my style!


For the last couple of weeks I have been intending to post a review of an EP I recently received, the first I had hoped of many, but who knew it would be so difficult! Oh?! You did? Well, I (as usual) expected it to be pretty darn easy. It hasn't been. Hence for the last two weeks it has been mainly me thinking about it. Admittedly, last week I began writing it.

Step one, was to have a look at existing album/EP reviews and see if any of those styles had attributes that I wanted to include in mine. They all seemed a bit brief and I am anything but brief.Step two, involved googling the band in question and reading everything that I could find out about them. That went well, until I started to feel like some kind of stalker and decided I probably had enough information for this review. Step three, was listening to the bands that the band I was reviewing supposedly sounded …