You can now support /amodelofcontrol.com on Patreon. I’m certainly not asking for a lot – I’ve never taken advertising for this site, and nor do I ever intend to. This is purely to assist in covering the ever-increasing costs of my site. If you choose to support, thank you. Otherwise, this site will always be […]
My /Tuesday Ten series began in March 2007, initially as an attempt to round up the best tracks of each month for my friends, but swiftly gained a life of its own. This post is to provide a list of all of the /Tuesday Ten entries so far, with links to each. A database of […]
It’s Hallowe’en this weekend, so obviously, there’s a spooky tone to this week’s /Tuesday Ten.
I left London – for the second time, of which more anon – over five years ago, having now made my home on the Kent Coast with my wife. We didn’t leave because we hated the city particularly, it was more a case of realism around what we would be able to afford in the […]
The latest roundup of new releases as we move headlong into autumn. 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 […]
Back in the heat of summer, in early August, I asked about this subject. And while I plan upcoming /Tuesday Tens some months ahead nowadays, even I couldn’t have expected summer to effectively last into October.
I neglected to mention it last week, but the sudden death of Bruno Kramm of Das Ich after a gig in Spain was really quite shocking. Das Ich weren’t by any stretch a gateway band for me, although I did own a few records and had seen them live once, and they were a fascinating, […]
For what will likely be one of my last in-person DJ sets, it was a pleasure to return to Bruise Violet for another set.
By chance, today marks thirty years to the day since I started my side-line (it was never a career!) in writing about music. On 29-Sep 1996, I was on the guestlist for downset. at the LA2 in London, my first assignment on the music section of ROAR, the King’s College London student newspaper. I’d signed […]
Another pair of related posts coming up to finish off September. Do, or don’t? Become a member! /amodelofcontrol.com now has a Patreon page, at this stage purely as a potential way of helping to cover the running costs of the site. There is absolutely no compulsion to do so: if you feel you can chuck […]
The latest roundup of new releases as we move headlong into autumn. 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 […]
I’ve often found further inspiration for posts in this series by looking at the flipside of a subject that I ask about, and this week is one of those. After all, if I ask about blame, why not ask about responsibility too?
These days, it seems impossible to read a story in the news where there isn’t blame placed somewhere else – and it happens when people get caught out online, too.
Back to regular programming, then, now that this year’s Infest coverage is done and dusted.
According to my records, including this year, I’ve seen 372 live sets at Infest since 2000 (not including the two online Infests in 2020 and 2021), with 342 of those unique artists. That’s a lot to cover as a writer and regular reviewer of the festival: I’ve reviewed every in-person festival from 2005 onwards (2005-2008, […]
The latest roundup of new releases as summer winds down. 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 […]
This weekend, I will attend Infest for the twenty-sixth time (the twenty-fourth time in person, as well as two virtually). I’ve not missed an Infest since I began attending in 2000, and after writing about nineteen of them, the twentieth Infest that I’ll cover on /amodelofcontrol.com will be my last. I’ll still be attending Infest […]
I got that bit closer to fifty over the weekend, as I turned forty-eight. It was a relatively low-key birthday this year, which rather suited me fine: but in past years, there have been some pretty epic parties to celebrate.
High summer is always a bit of a weird one for new releases: it’s the silly season while bands are playing festivals and travelling vast distances to do so, so new songs take the back burner a bit. But maybe it’s just me, but it seems the quietest it has been for new music in […]
The latest roundup of new releases in this everlasting summer. 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 […]
I conclude this run of posts on three colours with, of course, blue.
Following on from Red last week, we now move onto White.
