/DJ /Circling Overland /005 – 24-Feb 2025
For the first time in a few years, 24/2 worked out to be a night where I could livestream.
/Tuesday Ten /577 /Can I Play With Madness
Things are a bit fucking crazy in the world right now, as the repercussions from the political events in the US begin to ripple across the world.
/Welcome to the Future /284 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 21-Feb 2025
Two months in, and there’s already a lot of new music to enjoy and look forward to in 2025. 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. […]
/Tuesday Ten /576 /Cold As Ice
We are edging towards the end of what has felt like much colder winter than the past few years. Not that we see snow on the Kent coast – our winters here are wet and windy, almost constantly. But I grew up further north, on the fringes of the Pennines, where winters hit hard.
/Tuesday Ten /575 /We Are Family
Around Valentine’s Day, I’ve occasionally looked at vaguely relevant (or downright inappropriate!) themes for /Tuesday Tens in the eighteen years since the series began, and this year is no different.
/DJ /Guest /107 /Mr Wynne’s Fifty-Tenth
Another landmark birthday for a friend, and they asked me to DJ, alongside Mortasha Kinski and DemonDaz.
/DJ /TheKindaMzkYouLike /036 – 04-Feb 2025
The first show of 2025, as continue with my livestream.
/Tuesday Ten /574 /Tracks of the Month /Jan-25
What with work being busy, and my trip for the final 242 shows last week, most writing plans for January got tossed out of the window or deferred.
/Into the Pit /212 /The final Front 242 shows
When I was ten or eleven, at the end of the 1980s, we got satellite TV. Partly this was to allow my father, raised in part in Germany on a British Armed Forces base and a fluent German speaker, to watch German channels (and most importantly his beloved Borussia Dortmund). But it also had a […]
/Welcome to the Future /283 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 31-Jan 2025
The first regular release roundup of 2025, as the normal release schedules begin to crank into gear, and after a bit of a false start and a busy January, I too am beginning to get things together on here too. This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a […]
/Tuesday Ten /573 /Tracks of the Month /Dec 2024
2025 sees /amodelofcontrol.com enter 21 years active, and this coming summer, I will mark thirty years since the first gig that I attended. Life has been busy of late, and a slightly longer Christmas break from writing was much-needed.
/Welcome to the Future /282 /New releases for 2025
As is traditional as I resume a new year on /amodelofcontrol.com, I take a look at the new music likely to be coming our way this year. Some of it is confirmed, some of it is in the works, some of it is kinda expected or hoped for. Needless to say, some of this won’t […]
/Countdown /2024 /Gigs
The final part of /Countdown 2024 sees me looking at the best gigs of the year. Some statistics for my gig-going in 2024. I went to 36 shows (each festival is counted by number of days – so Infest is three days, so counts for three shows), and saw 110 live sets. I saw 105 […]
/Countdown /2024 /Albums
Onto the third week of /Countdown/2024 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. As I’m sure I’ve explained before, I treat the “year” as 01-December to 30-November, to allow me a cut-off point, and to allow this to be done and dusted before Christmas so that I can […]
/Welcome to the Future /281 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 13-Dec 2024
The final release roundup of 2024, before I complete the wrap of the year. The next one of these will be on the first Friday in January, looking what music is coming your way in 2025. This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events […]
/Countdown /2024 /Tracks
Continuing the /amodelofcontrol.com review of 2024 – and the twenty-first year that I’ve done this – which this week turns attention to the best tracks of the year. Next week will be the wrap of the best albums of 2024.
/Countdown /2024 /Compilations & Re-issues
Welcome to /Countdown/2024 – this year’s wrap-up of the best new music that I’ve heard across the year, and the 21st anniversary of me starting to do such annual roundups (which began on LiveJournal before moving to this site). I begin as usual, with the best compilations and reissues in no particular order, although it […]
/DJ /TheKindaMzkYouLike /035 – 19-Nov 2024
A solo show this time, as continue with my livestream.
/Tuesday Ten /572 /Ooh Stick You!
The final /Tuesday Ten of 2024 is a subject that turned out to have a lot of legs. Insults.
/Welcome to the Future /280 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 15-Nov 2024
It’s been a busy time, but I’ve just about had the time to get another release round-up done, amid continuing to get my /Countdown /2024 lists done (expect those in December). This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this […]