/Tuesday Ten /601 /Desire Is A Mess
Back from what felt like a blink-and-you-miss-it Infest, and coverage of that will follow later this week. In the meantime, I prepared this mostly in the week before Infest to ensure it would be posted today.
/Tuesday Ten /600 /This Is The Day
/Tuesday Ten /600 arrives 6,714 days (or 18 years, 4 months and 17 days) since I posted /Tuesday Ten /001. In that time, I’ve lived in Sheffield, North London and now South East Kent, and I’ve attended 688 days of gigs and/or festivals and seen 1,961 live sets.
/Welcome to the Future /293 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 08-Aug 2025
A quieter release period this time around, although a good number of autumn releases are currently being announced. Next week I’ll be at the relocated Infest in Manchester, for my 25th visit to the festival (including two online versions) – expect coverage on /amodelofcontrol after the event. In the meantime, my /Tuesday Ten series reaches […]
/Tuesday Ten /599 /The Garden of England
This Thursday (07-August) marks five years since the seed of moving to the Kent coast was planted. It was during a brief respite of the early lockdowns in summer 2020, when we could at least travel somewhere for a day, so for my birthday we got the train down to Folkestone, and got the bus […]
/Tuesday Ten /598 /Tracks of the Month /Jul-25
This month, I’m covering the best tracks of the month a week earlier than usual – mainly because I already had plans for /Tuesday Ten /599 and /600 that fit neatly in the next couple of weeks. That said, I already had enough tracks by this time last week, never mind this week, so there […]
/Welcome to the Future /292 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 24-Jul 2025
A break in what has been a hot summer this week, with lots of rain and a general sense, for a short while, of nothing much going on. 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, […]
/DJ /TheKindaMzkYouLike /038 /22-Jul 2025
Thirty years since I started going to gigs this week, and the death of Ozzy.
/Tuesday Ten /597 /It’s Not Like That Anymore
Thirty years ago yesterday, I attended my first gig: Back to the Planet, Pop Will Eat Itself and Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Heineken Festival in Roundhay Park, Leeds, and I was back again on the Saturday for the “Britpop” day headlined by Pulp. It was a giant, four-day free festival that had a […]
/Tuesday Ten /596 /Under the Sea
Following on from Insects last week, I turn my attention to another part of animal kingdom this time around, and use up another older suggestion thread (from five years ago) in the process.
/Tuesday Ten /595 /Insect Nation
Some local friends of ours – who work at a local zoological park – also do wildlife education and outreach work as TOP Conservation, including monthly talks in Hythe at a bar we really like. Last month the talk was about insects, and a fascinating talk it was too.
/Welcome to the Future /291 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 04-Jul 2025
Another roundup of the best new music recently released or announced, with a bit of a slowdown as we head into the summer lull. 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 […]
/Tuesday Ten /594 /Tracks of the Month /Jun-25
It’s been a funny time in music and entertainment recently, with hysteria around political pronouncements at major events by bands that we’d expect to do so (and thus providing a distraction from the horrors of Gaza in particular), as well as the anti-Trans bullshit that is still being peddled, and a general feeling that it […]
/Tuesday Ten /593 /Do Do Do
As is often the way, small plans become bigger things, and this mini-series of posts about non-lexical vocables and exclamations in music turned out to be a fun trip into a bunch of songs I either didn’t know, or had not heard in some time. The original suggestion threads provided nearly 600 songs to choose […]
/Patreon – Support /amodelofcontrol.com
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 […]
/Tuesday Ten /592 /Something Kinda Ooooh
Continuing this mini-series, here we are with part five: where we go “Ooh!”. This was an interesting one, with a bunch of what might be called novelty songs rubbing shoulders with bigger pop hits: so I went for both. This mini-series will conclude next week with “do do do”. Thanks, as ever, to everyone that […]
/Welcome To The Future /290 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 13-Jun 2025
Another roundup of the best new music recently released or announced, with another glut of new releases in the past couple of weeks in particular. There have also been a number of notable deaths in music this week alone: first Sly Stone, the legendary funk/soul band pioneer, then Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys… and […]
/Tuesday Ten /591 /La La La
I’ve had a lot of fun with this mini-series of posts of exclamations and wordless vocals – the suggestions and the types of songs that use them have perhaps resulted in some of the most eclectic /Tuesday Ten posts I’ve ever done.
/Tuesday Ten /590 /Tracks of the Month /May-25
Another month, another set of /Tracks of the Month.
/Tuesday Ten /589 /Woo!
Right then: part three of exclamations, and we’re onto “Woo!” this week.
/Welcome to the Future /289 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 23-May 2025
Another roundup of the best new music recently released or announced. 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 […]