Just as Bournemouth is blessed with an absolute top-notch dub reggae band with Dubheart, we are also the proud owners of their equivalent in terms of funk thanks to the almighty Baker Brothers. Having been long established (nearly ten years) not just locally, but worldwide, with an amazing cult following in Japan, the band have ...

Every time I press play on New Volunteer’s new long-player Remote Control Parade I’m reminded of Supertramp’s ‘Dreamer’. That’s purely from the burst of keyboard stabs on opener ‘All Their Peculiar Ways’, after which the similarity disappears completely. After the Supertramp start this is non-stop alt-rock, choc full with melodic, harmonic, rhythmic wonderment – Summerteeth-era ...