Beat:Cancer and Elektrovox are excited to bring your three powerhouses of the industrial scene to 229 London. We give you ESA, Iszoloscope & grabyourface. 100% of all profits to this gig will be going to Rowans Hospice. ESA : Electronic Substance Abuse (UK) Since Inception in 2004, British born ESA (aka Jamie Blacker) has been […]
For the latest in my series of interviews, I turn my attention closer to home to talk to an artist who has been making waves in the industrial scene for some years now.
Barely any time seems to have passed since the last album, but with a change of label to Tympanik maybe moving on quickly was the best way. Either way, with an apparently growing fanbase and lots of positive press, another album as good as the previous two would hardly be a bad thing.
It’s time, perhaps, to address the cliche of the “difficult second album”. Well, here is the perfect chance, really – the debut by ESA was so good that it is difficult not to be having memories of that in the back of one’s mind when reviewing the new one. One similarity becomes immediately obvious – […]
Another week, another noise album – despite it appearing to be a reasonably small “scene” there does seem to be a real vitality across the breadth of the noise spectrum at the moment, with release after release trying something just that little different, although not all are entirely successful in meeting what they are trying […]
Another roundup of the best new music recently released or announced, with another glut of new releases in the past couple of weeks in particular. There have also been a number of notable deaths in music this week alone: first Sly Stone, the legendary funk/soul band pioneer, then Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys… and […]
The natural follow-on to last week is to look at being right, as I hurtle towards /Tuesday Ten /600.
I was last at Resistanz in 2014, ending three straight years of attending the festival, with various other life commitments (and Whitby, more often than not) meaning it hadn’t been possible for us to return for some time. But, when certain bands got announced this year, a plan was quickly hatched, and we found ourselves […]
THE SPELLBOUND EASTER PARTY! in association with SHE SAID Erotic Boutique Brighton! On SATURDAY 19th APRIL – i.e. Easter Saturday – it’s not only the SPELLBOUND EASTER PARTY but it’s Spellbound’s Sixteenth Birthday! Which means our classic playlist of Alternative 80s bangers, with maybe a few extra tunes about resurrections (and birthdays) etc. Easter-themed costumes […]
Join us on this journey to experience music and artistry from doom, dark ambient, avant-garde black metal, acoustic, post-rock, prog., noise, experimental, and darkwave to psychedelic, folk, goth, and more. A rare togetherness and celebration of music, friendship, and artistry. We are a collective of conscious artists and musician friends in lovely Folkestone and beyond […]
This April witness the return of MONSTERS! Sheffield’s only drag monster show and alt queer club night combo returns for its tenth jaw-dropping installment: Cryptid Queers X! 🗓 Saturday, 12th April 📍 FØRGE Warehouse Forget Elon—he’s not invited. And Jigsaw? Not a chance. This is our domain. Join us for a night like no other, […]
Palindrones celebrate the launch their third album, “Chapter Two: The Slender Blade”, the second part of a story started in Chapter One: With Fearful Velocity; a mythical sci-fi tale in the vein of Solaris, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Expanse, Annihilation and Arrival. Chapter Two deals with themes of transcendence, universal consciousness, redemption and connection. […]
Boxhead Promotions welcomes Canterbury Doom legends Famyne to The Star for an epic night of Doom with support on the night coming from High, Okay You Win, Godless Suns, Heavy Mass Driver, Satangelist and Sun Messiah Famyne (Canterbury, Doom) High (Tunbridge Wells, Psychedelic, sludge-infused doom) https://high-uk.bandcamp.com Okay You Win (London, Doom) Godless Suns (London, Stoner […]
Continuing the /amodelofcontrol.com review of 2024 – and the twenty-first year that I’ve done this – which this week turns attention to the best tracks of the year. Next week will be the wrap of the best albums of 2024.
Inspirations for new collections of posts come from disparate places. This one comes from two places: one, a desire to try and record some of the stories of the past in our scene, by way of beloved songs, and two, from The Guardian’s long-running How We Made series.
Another Bandcamp Friday! This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted recently. Thanks to everyone who sends me new music and events, keeps me up to speed, and […]
First of the month, /Tracks of the Month time.
I turned forty-six last month, so I’m likely now in the right place for a midlife crisis.
Just when you thought it was safe to put away the Halloween decorations.. Cryptid Queers returns to FORGE Warehouse this November to deliver our final party of the year! This time we are doing things a little differently as it’s our 3rd birthday and we want to celebrate three years of terror in style! This […]
This week’s wrap of new and upcoming music… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted recently. Thanks to everyone who sends me new music and events, keeps […]
