New music: 'Centre Straight Atom' by Kassassin Street

Another local Portsmouth Band that I caught at last weekend's Victorious Festival, and one that looks destined for bigger and better things - they've already secured themselves a slot on the Bestival bill next week. Although they describe themselves as a 'psychedelic' band on their website, live they sounded a lot more like Kasabian fronted by Placebo's Brian Molko (I guess you could spot the Kasabian influence from their name). They seem to have a pretty healthy following locally if the number of Kassassin Street t-shirts I saw last Sunday are anything to go on. As a bonus there's a video below for their only single released so far, although personally I prefer the first track.

New music: 'Be My Ghost (The Green Light)' by Eloise Keating

New music can find you in the most unusual of locations; in this case I was waiting in the queue for the pancake machine at the hotel in Portsmouth where I was staying for the Victorious Festival. Striking up a conversation with the person queueing behind me I discovered that she was Eloise Keating, a singer/songwriter who was playing the festival that afternoon. Here's her track 'Be My Gost (The Green Light)' which I really like. Apparently she's moving more into a more electronic, produced sound than just a girl and a guitar, which as you can imagine is right up my street. Hopefully she'll retain her own voice rather than becoming, say, an Ellie Goulding clone - let's keep our fingers crossed for big things for her.