Into the Pit: 054: VNV Nation – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 15-December 2007
Getting in a little late, I missed the beginning of Kloq, but got to see the majority of a set I had been looking forward to seeing.
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Into the Pit: 053: theSTART – Live at Casbah Sheffield – 12-December 2007
Yet another band that I have been waiting years to see, first we had to endure two local bands that were really not good. The first were very-much Blondie influenced (to the point of playing a cover of Call Me), while the second were scratchy punk-pop where the silence between each song was probably longer […]
Into the Pit: 052: The Young Gods – Live at Roadhouse Manchester – 06-December 2007
First, I should mention the support band. A band from the south-west called Undercut, who were really rather good. Not at all the type of band I would expect to see supporting a band like TYG, but maybe that was half the fun. A five-piece alternative rock band, with passing nods in the music to […]
But Listen: 065: mindFluxFuneral – teatro de Revelación
Let’s get the comparisons out of the way first, shall we? This sounds very much like a Skinny Puppy creation. Not the post-millenium incarnation, but the prime-80s/90s version, where layer upon layer of sound is added to the mix, with unsettling samples, barely coherant vocals and a grimy, darkened feel to proceedings. Add to the […]
But Listen: 064: Enthroned – Tetra Karcist
Anyone who puts a sticker on the front of their album stating "Extreme Black Metal – Posers Beware" is putting themselves in the firing line in a big way. With such lofty – and arrogant – statements it puts the expectations high for some form of groundbreaking black metal that is just too good for […]
Into the Pit: 051: The Birthday Massacre – Live at Satan’s Hollow Manchester – 25-October 2007
Like many other gigs of late, I was left feeling rather old again after this one. Again the attendance was heartening – it was a queue pretty much ’round the block before it opened – with many, many very dedicated fans of the headliners.
Into the Pit: 050: [:SITD:] – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 21-October 2007
[Note: An edited version of this review appeared in Alternative Magazine Issue 08]
Into the Pit: 049: Pitchshifter – Live at Rock City. Nottingham – 13-October 2007
So, Pitchshifter. To say I’m familiar with the band’s output and their live performances would be understating it a little: I’ve been following them since first discovering Triad years ago on a John Peel show (probably sometime around ’94/’95), and then saw them live 13 times between ’96 and ’02 (I never saw the “last” […]
Into the Pit: 048: Angelspit – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 07-October 2007
Last night’s gig was a pretty strange one.
But Listen: 063: The Secret Meeting – Ultrashiver
This album is the second collaborative effort this year to feature Dean Garcia (ex-Curve), following the release of the KGC album right at the start of 2007. In some respects, they share some similarities – at least that they are reportedly full collaborative efforts – but sonically they are very different.
Into the Pit: 047: Seabound – Live at Corporation Sheffield 30-September 2007
Last night was an interesting gig. The first of the long list of upcoming gigs I am intending on attending, and it was a cracking way to start.
Memory of a Festival: 004: Infest 2007
So where exactly to start? This year marks of course ten years of Infest, a festival that has changed in subtle ways over the years. This one was my eighth, and it was fun the other week unearthing all the memories of past events before I forgot them forever. And as always, this year brought […]
But Listen: 062: Cyanotic – Transhuman 2.0
So how exactly do you go about topping an album as good as Transhuman? Well, it appears Cyanotic are side-stepping that question a little for now, as we have to wait a little longer for the follow-up proper to arrive.
But Listen: 061: Coreline – Exact Science Is Not An Exact Science
A year or so on from the well-received and heavily promoted release of debut Please Keep Moving Forward, we come to the latest release from Coreline. Over the course of the past year, something more of a live “show” has become the norm, with moments of great laughs and cardboard robots making for a rather […]
But Listen: 060: 16Volt – FullBlackHabit
Nine years is a long, long time in music. And incredibly, this is the time since the (first) release of the last album from Eric Powell’s now long-running “band”. Supercoolnothing arrived in 1998, and was re-released in 2002 with additional remixes, and other than a “Best-of” (covering just three albums) since, little else had been […]
But Listen: 059: The Young Gods – Super Ready / Fragmenté
Over twenty years of making music, and it appears that TYG have no intentions of getting bored with their form of art yet. There really isn’t any point in trying to pigeonhole this band into a genre – they have crossed so many boundaries, used so many influences over their existence since 1985 (think Kurt […]
Into the Pit: 046: Nitzer Ebb – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 03-August 2007
Going to see a band from your past, that you never got to see the first time around, is always perhaps something of a risk.
But Listen: 058: Dyspraxia – A Pound of Flesh
I’ve spent some time listening to the various odds and ends of Dyspraxia output over the past 18 months or so, and his work continues to fly off in all kinds of directions. Nowadays – on record at least – Dyspraxia is firmly in the realms of electronica, as opposed to live performances where the […]
But Listen: 057: Paradise Lost – In Requiem
The tale of Paradise Lost’s career, in some respects, does not reflect well on their fans. After a few years and albums of steadily evolving their gothic/doom metal sound into the near perfection of Draconian Times, they then moved quickly into a more electronic realm – culminating with what was dubbed the “career suicide” of […]
Into the Pit: 045: Front Line Assembly – Live in Manchester – 07-July 2007
Last night, in the main, rocked. I got to see probably my favourite band of all for a second time within a year, I got to spend some time catching up with a whole load of people I haven’t seen an awful lot of recently, and the weather was even pretty good for the first […]