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On the eve of their biggest headline show to date (at Alexandra Palace in London) Bristolian post punk quintet IDLES released their first live album, A Beautiful Thing, recorded in Paris at Le Bataclan in December 2018. Before we even get to the record Le Bataclan is, of course, famous for less positive reasons than... Continue Reading →
Every now and again a gig comes around that seems to catch everyone's imagination more than the usual and, a few months ago, when St James Concert Hall announced they'd booked the awkwardly but brilliantly named Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (aka PigsX7), this was certainly the case — then when it was... Continue Reading →
Despite this being my fifth time seeing Tiger Army this was my first time seeing them in my usual gig going location of London - on their last UK tour I caught them in Manchester and otherwise attended Octoberflame in 2015 and 2017 at The Observatory in Santa Ana as well as seeing them at... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show On my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show for November 2019 we had a live session, a preview a new album and a listen to some of the acts I caught at BBC Music Introducing Live earlier in the month. Hot off their latest tour and... Continue Reading →
Another mix of things from doom to jazz to 'Madchester' this month. In brand new things there's music from The Other World's debut EP The Silver Tree, the debut single from the brilliantly named Those Fucking Snowflakes, the title track from the new Byzanthian Neckbeard album, a preview of the new record from Mura Masa... Continue Reading →
After watching the film Lord Of Chaos over the summer I thought I'd finally give the book it was based on a read. Going in I knew the film only focussed on one part of the book and that this goes into more depth around both the Norwegian Black Metal scene and it's associated political... Continue Reading →
By their own admission, and fitting of much of their music, instrumental psychedelic doom three-piece Brunt aren't a band to rush things, being (in a positive way) something of the musical version of JRR Tolkien's Ents. Now, three years on from the release of three track EP Blackbeard comes their latest offering, the enigmatically titled... Continue Reading →
Having first heard of Those Fucking Snowflakes (aka Those Snowflakes for the more sensitive and Twitter) thanks to Tom Robinson at BBC Music Introducing Live earlier in the month I instantly vowed to look up their debut single, Stop Being Dickheads To Each Other, and I was not disappointed. From the off it's an energising... Continue Reading →
After a run of bigger gigs both in Guernsey and further afield there was something refreshing about heading back into a smaller venue on a cold November night to catch what was billed the next chapter in the supposed ongoing conflict between the mods and the rockers (albeit tonight in the form of grungers) as... Continue Reading →
