[Album] J.P. Riggall / (Stories From) The Dukes County Motel

It’s unlikely that Hartlepool’s J.P. Riggall has read Robert Burton’s playful seventeenth century treatise, The Anatomy of Melancholy, but there is something in the singer-songwriter’s musical essence that feeds off a shared aesthete and desire to explore the minutiae of humanity. Many locally may know J.P. as the singer of erstwhile Americana bods The Broken …

[Live] Industrial Coast / A Monday Night in Middlesbrough @ Various

When people talk about scenes the lazy assumption is they happen overnight, some kind of spontaneous explosion of kinetic creativity, a big bang of wanton lust or outpouring of free expression where ideas bounce around occasionally colliding like protons in an atom. In reality these things gestate and evolve over time, months (even years) with …