/DJ/Stormblast/009/29-December 2005
Much to our absolute and utter astonishment, Stormblast was as busy as it has been for the past weeks last night – despite town appearing to not be all that busy (and of course, it being really fucking cold).
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I started DJing in 2004. In 2020, I’m still doing it, just not as often, and in these COVID-ravaged times, mostly as Livestreams. All sets will be re-added here in time.
/DJ/Stormblast/008/22-December 2005
Stormblast last night was yet another blast of the usual – i.e. total lunacy. Highlights including various groups of locals (i.e. non-metallers) happily dealing with black metal, but being scared by Meshuggah, and as Andy noted, their reaction to Opeth (the opening to the utterly sublime Ghost of Perdition is a little sudden, shall we […]
/DJ/Stormblast/007/15-December 2005
I was in Berlin this week, so I left Stormblast in the capable hands of my colleagues, and when I find the old setlist, I’ll add it…
/DJ/Stormblast/006/08-December 2005
Stormblast continues to grow and get better – many, many thanks to all that come down for it, despite my initial reservations it has done really well. I just wish we had more time to play all the stuff that is requested!
/DJ/Stormblast/005/01-December 2005
An interesting night, last night. Stormblast was fantastic fun with a great turnout and many amusingly pissed metallers. (I am kinda glad the viking drinking horns were forgotten, though)
/DJ/Stormblast/004/24-November 2005
The fourth night of Stormblast wasn’t too bad, though, considering we lost a number of our usual audience to a gig at D’n’R Live.
/DJ/Stormblast/003/17-November 2005
The third night of Stormblast saw back to the core duo, as many nights were. This might have been the night where Viking drinking horns made their first appearance….
/DJ/Stormblast/002/10-November 2005
The second night of Stormblast introduced our first – of many – guest DJs over the few years that the night ran. We always had a policy of suggestions for songs we should play – extreme metal was, and still is, an extraordinarily broad church – and so having other DJs in as we needed, […]
/DJ/Stormblast/001/03-November 2005
For the first eighteen months of tcf, it was a bit of a shotgun marriage between industrial and (ever-extreme) metal.
/DJ/tcf/v3/001/01-Nov 2005
The third and longest phase of tcf began here, as my previous night split into two. tcf very much changed after this point, as we began to explore the outer realms of industrial that bit more.
/DJ/tcf/v2/065/25-Oct 2005
The second phase of tcf ended at this point, as I was unexpectedly offered the chance to take over Thursdays at The Nelson, too – which resulted in the metal that I was playing shifting to Stormblast.
DJ: Guest: 008: Darkside – 22-September 2005
The turnout was way higher than I had expected, to be totally honest, which was great. The bands went down well, despite a somewhat ropey sound – especially for 3ulogy, whose set seemed an experimental one and also somewhat subdued. Although their power live still far outstrips anything they have recorded thus far. Neon Zoo […]
/DJ/tcf/v1/027/01-Aug 2005
Bringing down the curtain on the first run of tcf, and ending my ties with Huddersfield – particularly as the West Riding closed not that much longer after I left.
DJ: Guest: 007: Black Sheep – 17-July 2005
Black Sheep last night was loads of fun. A busy night, and it was really warm in that small club.
DJ: Guest: 006: Necroscope – 07-July 2005
The latter was a bit crap, really – the usual disorganisation etc (my setlist below, I’m going to keep the rest of my views away from here).
DJ: Guest: 005: Black Sheep – 27-February 2005
Last night was good fun. Not too bad a turnout.
DJ: Guest: 004: Gloominati – 13-February 2005
Attendance was small, but good to see those that did make the effort, thanks for coming down. For what it’s worth I was not entirely keen on it being on a Sunday evening either. Some fascinating rumour/conjecture at the end of the night, ears to the ground on that one.
/DJ/tcf/v1/014/28-June 2004
It was a short run, but the weekly nights in Huddersfield came to an end the week I moved to Sheffield. They would continue monthly for a little while longer.
/DJ/tcf/v2/001/22-June 2004
The second generation of tcf, if you will, began at The Nelson in June 2004, and began a near-weekly run for quite some time.
DJ: Guest: 003: Black Sheep – 20-June 2004
This was my first guest DJ appearance in Leeds, and was at the now long-gone Phono, as a guest of Phono Paul at the Sunday night institution in Leeds that was Black Sheep. Only my set is listed.