/Tuesday Ten /564 /To Hell With Good Intentions

It’s the impending Bank Holiday Weekend, which means only one thing for us: it’s Infest this weekend in Bradford. /amodelofcontrol.com will be reporting back, of course, with the usual full coverage and photos after the event. If you’re there, come say hi.

/Apocalypse Brighton

Are you ready to hear the biggest metal, emo and alternative anthems? Apocalypse is bringing you the songs you love, your guilty pleasures to scream along to, and the most danceable moshable songs around. **************** A Day to Remember / Alestorm / Avatar / Avenged Sevenfold / Avril Lavigne / Black Veil Brides / Blink-182 […]

/Welcome to the Future /267 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 23-Feb 2024

Life is exceptionally busy right now (moving house this weekend, in fact), so this is the first chance I’ve had to do one of these round-ups in a few weeks. In the meantime, /amodelofcontrol.com turned twenty… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events […]

/Countdown /2023 /Albums

Onto the third week of /Countdown/2023 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 […]

/Countdown /2023 /Tracks

Continuing the amodelofcontrol.com review of 2023 – and the twentieth 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 2023.

/Countdown /2023 /Compilations and Re-issues

Welcome to /Countdown/2023 – this year’s wrap-up of the best new music that I’ve heard across the year, and the 20th 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 […]

/Tuesday Ten /535 /Tracks of the Month /Aug-23

In theory, Autumn is beckoning as we rush into September, but in reality down here on the coast it’s time for one last gasp of summer as we bask in the sunshine.

/Memory of a Festival /038 /Infest 2023

Just four months ago, I was beginning to be resigned to the August Bank Holiday being devoid of one of my favourite events of the year. So when we finally set foot in the new venues, it was very much a feeling of joy that we’d got there at all.

/Tuesday Ten /523 /The Day We Caught The Train

As I’ll go into in a bit more detail later in this post, the Beeching Report was published sixty years ago just recently (at the end of March), one of the most important documents in twentieth-century railway history in the UK.

/Tuesday Ten /522 /Tracks of the Month /Mar-23

The sun is out, we’re finally edging into what feels like Spring. And in the meantime, I’ve been busy listening to new music.

/Countdown /2022 /Compilations and re-issues

Welcome to /Countdown/2022 – this year’s wrap-up of the best new music that I’ve heard across the year. I begin as usual, with the best compilations and reissues in no particular order, although it should be noted that as is the norm these days, there are a whole lot of reissues coming through.