Into the Pit: 189: 3TEETH – Electrowerkz N1 – 10-October 2015
It had been hoped-for for an age, and finally someone delivered. 3TEETH on tour in the UK. I made it to the hot, sweaty London show, and even managed to catch all of the bands.
Into the Pit: 188: The Sisters of Mercy – Roundhouse NW1 – 18-October 2015
In some respects, it can’t be easy being Andrew Eldritch. But then, is there any other artist who has tried so hard to bury his own legacy? Back in the eighties, they were one of the Gothic Rock titans, releasing three wildly successful albums, having a major label deal and the power to pull in […]
DJ: Guest: 083: MetalChrome – 09-October 2015
A metal night in aid of The Queer Alternative, it was great fun and had me digging out a few things I’ve not played in a long time. And any night where I get a request for Strapping Young Lad is never bad.
Tuesday Ten: 243: Tracks of the Month (September 2015)
Back to normal-ish after fun times in Chicago (full write-up yesterday), it’s another month…
Memory of a Festival: 025: Cold Waves IV
After an epic holiday in Chicago – ostensibly to do Cold Waves and catch up with old friends – last year (review in the box), there wasn’t ever really any question that we wouldn’t make it back to Chicago again – and so a year on, here we were once again, in blazing September sunshine […]
Talk Show Host: 017: ESA
For the latest in my series of interviews, I turn my attention closer to home to talk to an artist who has been making waves in the industrial scene for some years now.
/Tuesday Ten/242/Front 242
This week’s Ten has been long-planned to have this subject, but how it was going to work was the bit I didn’t really know. So, I chose to open it up.
Tuesday Ten: 241: Long Live The UK Music Scene
This week marks the end of an era in Music Journalism: the NME as we know it goes, replaced with a free music paper/magazine every Friday, ending 63 years of it’s weekly, paid-for existence – and maybe it’s place at the heart of the British Music Industry as it has evolved. Maybe the printed music […]
/Tuesday Ten/240/A Purr-fect Ten – Songs about Cats
A few months ago, Tuesday Ten #226 howled about dogs. But in the meantime, Elin – among a few others – was unimpressed that I did songs about dogs, but not cats. So time to redress the balance, with some songs to mewl along to. Bring your kitten heels to dance.
Memory of a Festival: 024: Infest 2015
Christ almighty, this year has passed really fucking quickly – we’re already heading back into autumn, which means I’ve enjoyed my fifteenth Infest. While perhaps not a lineup with too many “marquee” names this year, it was certainly one that had some treasures in it, and away from the bands was one of the maddest […]
Tuesday Ten: 239: Tracks of the Month (August 2015)
Even with Infest taking up much of my time in the past few days, I’ve still been able to get ten more tracks written up.
/Tuesday Ten/238/Dead on “TV”
This week, time for a Tuesday Ten I’ve been thinking about and working on, gradually, for a few months. I was set a challenge, you see: to come up with a Tuesday Ten where deaths occur “on camera” (i.e. are described or happen in the songs). However, I could not rely on some of the […]
Talk Show Host: 016: Cocksure
Another interview this week – all coming at once, eh? This time, with a project from two veterans of the industrial scene, who burst out last year to great acclaim, and return very soon with a second album. That band is Cocksure, whose members have a long and storied history in the scene – Jason […]
Talk Show Host: 015: Riotmiloo
The latest interview on amodelofcontrol.com takes things in a different direction. Where industrial electronics meets world events, and musical ideas are shared.
Talk Show Host: 014: Dead When I Found Her
For the latest in my series of interviews with artists I’ve been writing about in the last few years, I’m ecstatic to be able to bring you what became a lengthy and fascinating exchange with an artist I’ve been writing about for a good few years, since his debut arrived, and is about to release […]
/Tuesday Ten/237/(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
In a time where far-right sentiment is ever more in the news again – see this disturbing story from Liverpool this week, the sentencing of a fourteen-year-old boy for a racist knife attack on a teacher in Bradford, demonising of immigrants, apparent revisionism over Golden Dawn in Greece, or upvoting of Nazi propaganda on the […]
Tuesday Ten: 236: Tracks of the Month (July 2015)
As we hurtle headlong through the summer – it’s my birthday next weekend, and Infest just three short weeks after that – it is time already for another roundup of the tracks of the month, and I have to admit I’m already starting to consider what might be making the end of year lists – […]
/Tuesday Ten/235/Twenty Years of Gigs
Last week actually marked a significant milestone in my music fandom – 20-July was exactly twenty years since I first attended a live, professionally promoted gig. That first show, by the way, was the (free) Heineken Festival in Roundhay Park, Leeds – I went to two days of it. The Thursday night I saw Back […]
/The Rearview Mirror/006 /Machines of Loving Grace
Time to dig back into my musical past once again, this time for a band that released their third – and what was to be their last – album in twenty years ago in 1995. They had, pretty much, already hit their commercial peak by this point, and as things continued later into the nineties, […]
DJ: Guest: 082: Fabulous and Forty – 18-July 2015
A private party, this one, I and my regular DJing partner nowadays AndyRavensable did the whole evening – for our friends Holly and EJ’s 40th birthday at North Nineteen. Needless to say, at an event like this my usual musical choices were stretched in various directions!