It is, then, the week of another bloody election this week here in the UK, and there has been distinct signs of just how fucked off everyone seems to be with it across the coverage of it (not helped by the uptick in terrorist attacks in the country in recent weeks). Fuck knows what is […]
The cliché of the second album. It gets raised every single time, by just about everyone, but is it really a thing? I guess it depends on what happens with your first. If your first album isn’t great, though, will you have a chance to make a second? This second album expectation only really comes […]
The announcement of a European Skinny Puppy tour earlier in the year (“Down the Sociopath Too Euro 2017“) was, I have to say, a bit of a surprise. It has been seven years since their last UK appearances at least, and in the meantime they’ve released the excellent Weapon – but that was four years […]
We’re edging toward the halfway point of 2017, and this week I’m taking a fifth look back at 1997.
How artists can change entirely, embrace a whole new body, as it were, has never ceased to be a fascination to me.
Last week I was looking at weakness, and songs thereof, and this week, it’s the flipside.
Not all DJ sets go as planned, and this was one of them.
Nearly five years ago, I stumbled across a fascinating live electronic act opening the Saturday afternoon at BIMFest in Antwerp.
In another of those instances of “how have I not written about this before”, welcome to this week’s Tuesday Ten.
Simon Landmine and I were asked to DJ Karen’s 40th at the weekend, and we had a lot of fun doing so…
The past is a strange place, and happily there are some people within our scene that can remember – but also helped to create those memories.
One of the must-see shows in the calendar for the past few months finally arrived over the weekend.
It has been another busy week gathering and writing content at amodelofcontrol.com, and there will be a few posts in the next couple of weeks as a result. The first of which is this, the best tracks of the past month.
Back from Whitby, and straight back onto the regular programming here on amodelofcontrol.com.
Thanks to the kind folks at audiotrauma, you can get an exclusive listen today to the quite great new album from Atonalist.
I passed seven years working for the same employer recently (by some considerable distance the longest I’ve worked for one company in the two decades that I’ve had jobs), and while things haven’t always been plain sailing, currently I’ve got the kind of role I wanted.
I can’t remember whatsoever when I first heard Cubanate. It was in my early teens, and was either Body Burn or Oxyacetalene first. And then lots more Oxyacetalene, as it was everywhere for a time. I do remember picking up the single for Joy in the rather awesome Badlands record shop in Huddersfield, though. You […]
I toyed with the idea of a post celebrating Europe last summer around the referendum vote, but frankly, I was too damned down about the whole thing to even consider it. Debate has raged, of course, in the press, in person, on social media, just about everywhere, and there is certainly no doubt that the […]
Back to normal this week, with the best tracks of the past month.
Here at amodelofcontrol.com I’ve come to appreciate over the years that interviewing bands – I prefer e-mail than to be transcribing Skype interviews, partly as trying to schedule them is very difficult indeed too! – can often tell me (and of course my readers) so much more than just a review. After all, I’m only […]
