/But Listen/165/Empathy Test – Monsters
It is remarkable to think that I first heard Empathy Test for myself just five years ago. That first time was back at S.O.S. #2 at Electrowerkz, the second instance […]
Category: /Reviews
I’ve written a lot of reviews over the years. This is the home of pretty much all of them since about 2003.
/But Listen/164/the return of Brainclaw
I have to admit that it has been a while since I had last thought about Brainclaw before 2020. They have jolted back into my view thanks to the sad […]
/But Listen/163/Doom in the Springtime
For me at least, there are a number of links between Katatonia and Paradise Lost.
/But Listen/162/Promenade Cinema/Exit Guides
Promenade Cinema rather burst out of their native Sheffield a couple of years ago, with a handful of striking, elegant singles and a sensational debut album LIVING GHOSTS, that this […]
/Memory of a Festival/034/10 Years of Chaos
As I noted recently in my chat with the promoter on /Talk Show Host/058, Chaos Theory Music have reached their tenth anniversary by being a fearlessly uncompromising promoter, doing things […]
/Into the Pit/210/3TEETH + <PIG>
My gigging in 2020 has perhaps started slower than usual – I didn’t see a single show in January – but this might be down to the fact that by […]
/Click Click/007/BEAT:CANCER/London/09-Nov 2019
For the last couple of years, one Saturday around this time of year has seen me head to Electrowerkz for the latest London edition of the BEAT:CANCER shows – and […]
/Into the Pit/209/Red Box live in London/24-Sep 2019
The seemingly inexhaustible jukebox that is my brain has a regular supply of new music added to it, by account of my voracious appetite for new songs and new artists […]
/Into the Pit/208/Drab Majesty + SRSQ
We are very much in the time of new bands, new styles, and a distinct dearth of live venues in London. This has resulted in a few things: gigs that […]
/Memory of a Festival/033/Infest 2019
Somehow, despite the feeling I was just getting started, I’m already home, (mostly) unpacked and finishing this write-up of another great edition of Infest. It has long since become far […]
/Into the Pit/207/New Blood Tour
A word of warning: in the future, if you see that I’m attending a show in June next year, just know that for the past three or four years now, […]
/Click Click/006/Statiqbloom/Spit Mask/11-Jun 2019
Nearly halfway through 2019, and the gigs keep on coming. After a week off (I was away in Greece), there were three shows back-to-back as we entered the second week […]
/But Listen/161/Syd.31 roar back
Syd.31 are not your average punks. For a start they are punks by way of electronic music and industrial. But also they are punks by way of a political-based higher […]
/Into the Pit/206/Katatonia
I’ve long felt Katatonia to belong to the lineage of underappreciated bands in metal. They are a band that have been around for a remarkably long time – they initially […]
But Listen: 160: Manifesto for a Modern World
The career of Randolph & Mortimer has been a strange one thus far. While Sheffield-based, his earliest work slipped out unnoticed over here in the UK, and was picked up […]
But Listen: 159: Vancouver Industrial
In one of those weird quirks that seem to happen more often than they should, two industrial bands from Vancouver (one featuring a previous member of the other) are releasing […]
Memory of a Festival: 032: Black Celebration
Back in the mists of time, there used to be a steady stream of all-day “festival” events in the London goth/industrial scene. There was Gotham, there was Black Celebration, and […]
Memory of a Festival: 031: Goth City 3: Season of the Witch
I don’t often go to Goth Festivals for music. There, I said it. Whitby, for me, long since became a social holiday, where I catch up with old friends and […]
Click Click: 005: BEAT:CANCER Winter Tour 2018: 13-October 2018
About this time last year, I attended my first BEAT:CANCER show, which was something of a voyage of discovery in what felt like a parallel scene, with a good number […]
/Memory of a Festival/030/Infest 2018
Twenty years of a festival existing is nothing to be sniffed at. Sure, bigger festivals have existed much longer (Reading dates back into the sixties, while Glastonbury is a few […]