DJ: Guest: 022: JUDDER! – 09-November 2007
Probably one of my favourite DJ sets ever, this was the Jim Henson Judder. So everyone dressed as Muppets. And Fraggles.
Tuesday Ten: 023: Tracks of the Month (October 2007)
The first Tuesday of a new month, so time for a look at my ten tracks of the month for October. The usual mix of new stuff that has caught my ear, along with a few older things that I've been listening to again. Anything that you think I should be hearing otherwise would be […]
But Listen: 064: Enthroned – Tetra Karcist
Anyone who puts a sticker on the front of their album stating "Extreme Black Metal – Posers Beware" is putting themselves in the firing line in a big way. With such lofty – and arrogant – statements it puts the expectations high for some form of groundbreaking black metal that is just too good for […]
Into the Pit: 051: The Birthday Massacre – Live at Satan’s Hollow Manchester – 25-October 2007
Like many other gigs of late, I was left feeling rather old again after this one. Again the attendance was heartening – it was a queue pretty much ’round the block before it opened – with many, many very dedicated fans of the headliners.
Tuesday Ten: 022: Overplayed Dancefloor Tracks
This week is a companion piece to last week's, really: looking at overplayed dancefloor tracks in goth/industrial clubs. Being a DJ myself, of course, I well appreciate that it isn't always the DJ's fault, and it is endless requests for particular tracks that cause it. Still, some of these tracks I have heard everywhere I […]
Into the Pit: 050: [:SITD:] – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 21-October 2007
[Note: An edited version of this review appeared in Alternative Magazine Issue 08]
Tuesday Ten: 021: Overplayed Videos
Like many others, I while away the odd evening watching some of the music channels on cable. And sometimes, there is even something good on. And a look at the playlist pages may make you weep if you are looking for something different. Kerrang TV‘s playlist has vanished (leaving a blank page – perhaps they […]
Into the Pit: 049: Pitchshifter – Live at Rock City. Nottingham – 13-October 2007
So, Pitchshifter. To say I’m familiar with the band’s output and their live performances would be understating it a little: I’ve been following them since first discovering Triad years ago on a John Peel show (probably sometime around ’94/’95), and then saw them live 13 times between ’96 and ’02 (I never saw the “last” […]
Tuesday Ten: 020: Bands I’ve Not Seen Live
This week, it’s time to revisit something I have mentioned in passing elsewhere. In fact, last week I put up a poll about gigs/bands you’d go back in time to see, and the results were fascinating. So to expand it a little, it’s time to look at bands I never did/never have seen live. I […]
Into the Pit: 048: Angelspit – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 07-October 2007
Last night’s gig was a pretty strange one.
But Listen: 063: The Secret Meeting – Ultrashiver
This album is the second collaborative effort this year to feature Dean Garcia (ex-Curve), following the release of the KGC album right at the start of 2007. In some respects, they share some similarities – at least that they are reportedly full collaborative efforts – but sonically they are very different.
Tuesday Ten: 019: Tracks of the Month (September 2007)
Another month – so it's time again for my tracks of the month.
Into the Pit: 047: Seabound – Live at Corporation Sheffield 30-September 2007
Last night was an interesting gig. The first of the long list of upcoming gigs I am intending on attending, and it was a cracking way to start.
Tuesday Ten: 018: Indie
It's time to delve into what is now some of the outer reaches of my music collection for this week's TT. Indeed, into a genre that I rarely buy anything from anymore – indie bands. And this one is in a slightly different format to usual, too – click on the Key Tracks links to […]
Tuesday Ten: 017: Videos
Often part of the appeal of a particular song is the music video – a medium that has now been evolving in ever more complicated ways for over thirty years. Often, though, it isn’t always the really technically advanced – and expensive – videos that are the best. Sometimes all it takes is some lateral […]
Tuesday Ten: 016: Tracks of the Month (August 2007)
So, the start of a new month, so it's time for my monthly run-down of tracks that I really like right now, and obviously it has something of an Infest bias for some of it…
Memory of a Festival: 004: Infest 2007
So where exactly to start? This year marks of course ten years of Infest, a festival that has changed in subtle ways over the years. This one was my eighth, and it was fun the other week unearthing all the memories of past events before I forgot them forever. And as always, this year brought […]
Tuesday Ten: 015: The Ghosts Of Infest Past
We are finally in the week preceding Infest, so it is perhaps only right for an Infest-based Tuesday Ten. Not just ten artists, though – this is something of a ramble of the good and the bad from my seven Infests so far – I haven’t mentioned all of the bands over that time, but […]
But Listen: 062: Cyanotic – Transhuman 2.0
So how exactly do you go about topping an album as good as Transhuman? Well, it appears Cyanotic are side-stepping that question a little for now, as we have to wait a little longer for the follow-up proper to arrive.
But Listen: 061: Coreline – Exact Science Is Not An Exact Science
A year or so on from the well-received and heavily promoted release of debut Please Keep Moving Forward, we come to the latest release from Coreline. Over the course of the past year, something more of a live “show” has become the norm, with moments of great laughs and cardboard robots making for a rather […]