adamMay 31, 2016July 31, 2016/Tuesday Ten1 Comment

Tuesday Ten: 260: Tracks of the Month (May 1996)

Part four of my monthly rundown this year of tracks from 1996 that broadly, I still love now.

adamMay 24, 2016March 30, 2022/Tuesday TenLeave a comment

/Tuesday Ten/259/Age of Consent

I have no idea how this one came up. A particular song was mentioned in the pub on the Monday night of Whitby last month, and all of a sudden five or six of us were coming up with a long, long list of songs along the same lines.

adamMay 22, 2016February 4, 2022/ReviewsLeave a comment

/The Rearview Mirror/007 /Velvet Acid Christ/Greatest Hits

Velvet Acid Christ – one of the most divisive acts in industrial? Well, that is what many would have you believe, but I don’t think that they really are. Bryan Erickson’s long-running project, now nearing 25 years of activity, have maybe gone through periods of (comparatively) massive popularity, and indeed the opposite, but that is […]

adamMay 11, 2016June 2, 2017/Talk Show HostLeave a comment

Talk Show Host: 021: Misery Loves Co.

Time for another interview on amodelofcontrol.com, and this time I’m talking to a band who’ve somewhat unexpectedly reformed. There have been an awful lot of reunions of late, particularly of bands from the nineties, and frankly some have not been particularly worthwhile returning.

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Tuesday Ten: 258: That’s why múm has gone to Ísland

For a country with a population of 330,000 – and a total area of 102,000km2 (in comparison, England has a total area of 130,000km2 and a population of 54 million) – Iceland has a remarkable musical heritage. Obviously it goes back a long way, Iceland having a well-recorded history going back into the first millenium […]

adamMay 4, 2016June 16, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Into the Pit: 193: Ruby – Live at Servant Jazz Quarters: London N16

Lesley Rankine’s career in music now spans a few decades, and more than a few styles. She first came to prominence in the vicious, no-wave influenced punkish-rock of Silverfish, a fixture of the Camden scene in the early 90s and unusual in their strident politics and just how confrontational they were. The band toured with […]