MOJO Bar - Music for the people

Some months ago I wrote on this very website about those albums you buy, that you listen to once or twice

through, don’t really get, and then discard telling everyone who’ll listen that they are terrible. Later though, you are forced to eat your words over a massive six course banquet that you can barely consume, [...]

Now that the dust has settled on another Christmas, enough time has elapsed for us to discuss the accusation made by many, that the X-Factor has ruined or in some way devalued the haloed battle for the United Kingdoms Christmas number 1. 
The argument runs thus, that by having the Television show reach its end in [...]

Saxophones. That’s the thing I’ll take from my couple of weeks with Day and age. Saxophones. And not just any saxophones. These are ABC, Wham style brass orgies.
With 2004 debut hot fuss, The Killers had worn their 80’s anglophile influences clearly enough on the tops of their sleeves but this is more like the eighties [...]

Josh Rouse is one of those talented souls destined to forever play the fringes. He’s been a constant on Mojo playlists since the early part of this decade but our constant championing  has made little difference.
He has a similar work ethic to Ryan Adams, writing and recording seemingly constantly and throwing out smooth sounding California [...]

Just how selfish are music fans? I was flicking through the pages of one of the more sensible music mag’s that adorn the walls of the newsagents of this land when I alighted upon a readers letter. Within this letter were the complaints of an ‘Avid Elbow fan’. I paraphrase his argument thus ‘I’ve liked [...]

After finally getting annoyed enough by Stephen Patrick Morrissey to terminate The Smiths at the height of their powers in 1987, Johnny Marr has roamed the planet looking for a suitable berth for both he and his jangling axe to call home.
He became guitarist for hire, lending his talents to Talking Heads, The The, Billy Bragg, [...]

So yesterday was a bit special in OSA world.
Firstly we found out that we had won Steve Lamacq’s rebel playlist with a whooping 81% of the vote against The Holloways and The Futureheads, which was an amazing moment. This means we get played on 6 Music everyday. We felt very proud of our song!
Then if that [...]

Bonjour Bonjour,
Just a quick note to say that we’ve been nominated for The Rebel Jukebox on the rather lovely gent Steve Lamacq’s Six Music show. Be rather lovely if you could go ove and give us a vote….PICTURE THE SCENE
Election night.
The eyes of the entire planet are firmly focussed on the battle for the american presidency. [...]

Hello One and All,
It’s Lawrence Diamond here. I worked at Mojo Leeds for 3 years back in my heady student days before leaving a couple of years ago to go to the big bad smoke with my band Official Secrets Act. After a summer living above Mojo Manchester writing songs and drinking to much mount [...]

TV on the Radio’s previous output was perhaps easier to admire than to like or love. With genre labels like experimental rock, post rock or even art rock thrown at them, they were unlikely ever to find a mainstream audience with their at times almost aloof sound.
While hardly making a leap for the Kaiser Chief, David Siteks Brooklyn based [...]