Mon 20 Feb 2006
LIVE AT WHAT'S COOKIN', 1st february 2006
Source: artrocker magazine

Ever wondered if it's worth travelling out to Leytonstone on a freezing wednesday night in February, with the roads gridlocked with raging football fans? Believe it or not, it was last night, ten times over and then some.

Upstairs in a standard london redneck pub, and bizarrely it's like walking into a debauched corner of '50's Vegas - kitsch glamour, gold lame and more plastic flowers than the combined restaurants of Brick Lane. The perfect setting for tonight's show, then - another Morning Bride show, and another luscious trip through a spectrum of emotions that only a handful of contemporary bands can even allude to.

How a country-tinged, angel-voiced quartet can be quite so powerful and dynamic is anyone's guess, but it's living proof that the core ingredients of slide/lead guitar, bass, drums and vocals is sometimes all you ever need to communicate with a packed house full of disperate souls. Sprinkle on a little melodica, fairground organ and three very different vocals, and you have an audience in your very palm.

Morning Bride - only a year or so old, and hailing (somewhat appropriately) from Stoke Newington - are presently recieving the kind of hyperbolic reviews usually reserved for two-dimensional garage rock clones, and yet its not hard to see why - there is a magic pulsing through their world, where each song stings with poignancy and empathy, and each chorus sounds like it's been your favourite break-up anthem for years.

And with a lead singer like Amity - almost too beautiful for these times, and with a voice that reduces grown men and women to love-struck teenagers - it's almost an indulgence for their songs to be so impacting and gorgeous. But it's not all dreamy, bar-room chic; underpinned by a trademark melancholia, there are surges of warm blues, alluring lo-fi and and even southern rock - hence their growing reputation of being a nightmare to lazily pigeonhole.

Such audience enthusiasm and passion for a band resolutely free from gimmicks and rock histrionics is a rare treat these days, but then to remain unmoved by Morning Bride's spell this evening is to be clinically dead from the neck down.

As their reputation spreads through our fair city on the back of a beautiful debut single 'Isabelline'/'Replica', a second single is apparently expected next month.
If it's anything like as classic as their first, expect it to be the soundtrack to those hungover sunday mornings as the spring finally kicks in again. Go see them as soon as you can, before everybody else claims they were there first, and we lose them to Jools Holland and Mojo.....

Tue 3 Jun 2008
live preview - Bonanza
Source: Bonanza

Fri 9 May 2008
LIVE REVIEW
Source: THE INDEPENDENT

Wed 5 Mar 2008
GREETINGS FROM ABNEY PARK, N16
Source: PLAN B MAGAZINE

Tue 4 Mar 2008
PLAN B LIVE REVIEW, FEB 2008 ISSUE
Source: PLAN B MAGAZINE

Fri 1 Feb 2008
Live
Source: ALTER STATES

Tue 11 Dec 2007
Live at Hot Burrito, Newport, Wales
Source: soundsnew.com

Wed 7 Nov 2007
live review

Mon 15 Oct 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: HERE COMES THE FLOOD webzine

Mon 8 Oct 2007
LIVE AT THE FAVERSHAM, LEEDS 2007
Source: RAWKSTAR.NET

Tue 2 Oct 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: 17 SECONDS webzine

Mon 1 Oct 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES - ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Source: soundsnew.com

Sat 18 Aug 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: NOIZE MAKES ENEMIES webzine

Fri 17 Aug 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: NET RHYTHMS webzine

Sat 14 Jul 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: THE WORD MAGAZINE

Wed 6 Jun 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: Song, by Toad webzine

Wed 23 May 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: SOUNDSXP.COM

Mon 21 May 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: PICCADILLY RECORDS

Mon 7 May 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: AMERICANA UK

Thu 19 Apr 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: ROCK N REEL MAGAZINE

Sun 1 Apr 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: N16 MAGAZINE

Mon 5 Mar 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: PLAN B MAGAZINE

Sun 4 Mar 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: FREQUENCY ONLINE

Thu 1 Mar 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: ORGAN MAGAZINE

Fri 2 Feb 2007
LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES
Source: SUBTER.COM

Mon 29 Jan 2007
'TIME DELAY'
Source: Partly Porpoise ezine

Sun 28 Jan 2007
'TIME DELAY'
Source: indie-mp3.co.uk

Thu 11 Jan 2007
LIVE AT ALTER STATES, December 2006
Source: americana UK

Wed 15 Nov 2006
interview with mark
Source: antivirus review

Wed 15 Mar 2006
interview with mark
Source: essex chronicle

Mon 20 Feb 2006
LIVE AT WHAT'S COOKIN', 1st february 2006
Source: artrocker magazine

Fri 13 Jan 2006
live preview
Source: the gilded palace of sin

Tue 10 Jan 2006
'ISABELLINE' / 'REPLICA' by rob barnett
Source: music-news.com

Wed 14 Dec 2005
DEBUT SINGLE LAUNCH PARTY, 12th november 2005
Source: frequency

Mon 5 Dec 2005
LIVE AT RYAN'S BAR, 25th november 2005
Source: music-news.com

Thu 10 Nov 2005
'ISABELLINE' / 'REPLICA' by Richard Fontenoy
Source: N16 magazine

Wed 10 Aug 2005
LIVE AT THE SPITZ 18th july 2005
Source: spitz website

Mon 25 Jul 2005
LIVE AT THE SPITZ, 18th july 2005 by Lilly Novak
Source: Frequency