Tuesday Ten: 136: Tracks of the Month (July 2011)
The first TT for a few weeks, and it is already back to my tracks of the month.
But Listen: 113: Necro Facility – Wintermute
It really is remarkable how time flies by so fast. This is Necro Facility’s third album, and their debut The Black Paintings dates back to 2005 (and second album The Room is already four years old now). To be honest, both of those albums were something of a solid effort in hero worship, though. Basically […]
Into the Pit: 105: Modulate – Live at the Purple Turtle – 28-July 2011
I’ve seen a whole lot more gigs this year than I have in a while. I’m putting it down to being back in the heart of the action (i.e. London) and being able to get out to Montreal this year: plainly and simply I have access to so many more venues, and the reality is […]
But Listen: 112: Dismantled – The War Inside Me
We appear to be in something of a transitional period in the scene nominally called “industrial”. Many bands I have looked upon as relative newcomers for some time have now been around for five or ten years, few new bands are coming through, and even the clubs and DJs appear unclear on what they want […]
Tuesday Ten: 135: A Night On The Town
I got wind over the weekend that the bar that I ran tcf in for five years is closing – initially it sounded like it was for good, but instead it’s apparently for a refurb that will see The Nelson in Sheffield close for eight weeks. So it feels like an appropriate time to look at songs […]
Tuesday Ten: 134: Tracks of the Month (June 2011)
Ok, so it’s my usual monthly roundup of ten songs you should hear. Or go back and listen to again if you have already.
Memory of a Festival: 012: Wireless Festival 2011: Day Three
I’ve been meaning to go to at least one of the days of Wireless for a couple of years now – but I think really I was awaiting for the right lineup to splash my cash on – and the announcement of Pulp for this back before Christmas (god, that long ago?) sealed the deal. […]
But Listen: 111: KMFDM – WTF?!
After celebrating 25 years of “conceptual continuity” in 2009-2010, with the associated tour and best-of album, as we headed into 2011 the first signs of the next stage of KMFDM were revealed, in the guise of a couple of singles, and now a new album under the moniker of WTF?! – continuing with the age-old […]
Tuesday Ten: 133: 90s Dance
Yes, I’m still on something of a retro tip. After seeing a depressing “top selling dance songs of the noughties” list, I began thinking back to the stuff I loved in the nineties. I was, to be fair, heavily into big beat and drum and bass in my uni days, so this list might well […]
Into the Pit: 104: Godflesh – Live at Kentish Town – 16-June 2011
I, like other music lovers, should perhaps be getting very concerned about just how many gigs that I’ve attended in recent years that are a reunion or return of an “old” band. The same goes with re-issues of “old” albums, repackaged, remastered and resold to fans that quite likely already have the original.
Tuesday Ten: 132: nineteenninetyone
I seem to have been delving into my musical past, and in particular the nineties, an awful lot so far in 2011. I’m not exactly sure why: perhaps it’s just been discovering a handful of nights in London that cover parts of that past that I’m still fond of – so Nuis@nce and Louder Than […]
Into the Pit: 103: Battles – Live at Heaven – 08-June 2011
I wasn’t going to let a small case of burnout, exhaustion and illness to stop me getting to this gig – after all I’d waited some years to see the headliners. So on my own I went to a venue I’d never attended before.
DJ: Guest: 058: Departure – 10-June 2011
Turnout was a little lower than expected – a mix of WGT and the appalling weather, I suspect – but it was good, and my setlist included a few old favourites that I’ve not played since the days of tcf – and I’ve realised this morning that it is almost two years already since I […]
DJ: Guest: 057: Autonomy – 04-June 2011
It’s a shame I wasn’t quite fully with it on Saturday night, actually – as Autonomy was fantastic fun. An unexpectedly bonkers dancefloor, who danced to pretty much anything I threw at them. And it was good fun to be DJing alongside DJ Deaddancer and Gadgeeuropa, too.
Tuesday Ten: 131: Tracks of the Month (May 2011)
For my first Tuesday Ten in nearly a month, it’s back to the usual monthly round-up of things you need to hear.
Into the Pit: 102: dEUS – Live at the Garage – 01-June 2011
Like it or not, club gigs during a warm summer can be a real trial. And so it proved on Wednesday night, with the Garage resembling a sauna by the time we got through the doors at about 1945, never mind when the bands were on later and the venue had filled up. Still, I […]
Memory of a Festival: 011.5: Festival Kinetik v4.0 – Phase 05
By the time Monday dawned, I was starting to flag fast. To get through thirty-six bands – and to actually try and see all of them – while doing some touristy stuff and finding time for drinking in cheaper bars, too, is an exhausting enterprise, I can tell you.
DJ: Guest: 056: Festival Kinetik 4.0 Montreal – 23-May 2011
I was utterly bowled over to be invited to DJ at Festival Kinetik 4.0 in Montreal, Canada. I was going as a punter anyway – and it was a crazy week and some out there, topped off by DJing on the final night. My plan to return to Kinetik at some point never happened, with […]
Memory of a Festival: 011.4: Festival Kinetik v4.0 – Phase 04
As Sunday’s show began, it was plainly clear that the early bands were going to suffer from the same issue that Infest Sunday does – that everyone had a very, very heavy night the night before (myself included, although that was mainly because I was so buzzing following 242 that I couldn’t possibly sleep for […]
Memory of a Festival: 011.3: Festival Kinetik v4.0 – Phase 03
Just in case I thought this weekend couldn’t get any better or more fun, Saturday’s performances ended up being probably the finest day of live industrial music I’ve ever seen – and that was even with at least one act that I really, really don’t care for.