/DJ/Stormblast/011/12-January 2006
…onto The Nelson for Stormblast – which although quieter than recent weeks was still damned good fun. Town generally seemed utterly dead anyway, last night.
/DJ/Stormblast/010/05-January 2006
A quieter night than previous weeks at Stormblast last night – the new year's hangover seemingly finally kicking in for everybody. Still a good number down at The Nelson, though, and it was as fun as ever – thanks to all that came down (including a number of people I have not seen for some […]
/DJ/Stormblast/009/29-December 2005
Much to our absolute and utter astonishment, Stormblast was as busy as it has been for the past weeks last night – despite town appearing to not be all that busy (and of course, it being really fucking cold).
/DJ/Stormblast/008/22-December 2005
Stormblast last night was yet another blast of the usual – i.e. total lunacy. Highlights including various groups of locals (i.e. non-metallers) happily dealing with black metal, but being scared by Meshuggah, and as Andy noted, their reaction to Opeth (the opening to the utterly sublime Ghost of Perdition is a little sudden, shall we […]
/DJ/Stormblast/007/15-December 2005
I was in Berlin this week, so I left Stormblast in the capable hands of my colleagues, and when I find the old setlist, I’ll add it…
Into the Pit: 022: Interlock – Live at The Fenton Leeds – 09-December 2005
First up were Skinflick. I’ve gone on record in the past with opinions on them (in short: too much of a wannabe Killing Joke, too much volume and little of actual interest), so I was a little surprised to find them sounding different to what I recall. Although, it seems they have a new line-up, […]
/DJ/Stormblast/006/08-December 2005
Stormblast continues to grow and get better – many, many thanks to all that come down for it, despite my initial reservations it has done really well. I just wish we had more time to play all the stuff that is requested!
/Countdown/2005/Gigs
No order for these, as it has been something of a top year for gigs and trying to pick the best one has been impossible…
/Countdown/2005/Tracks
The best five tracks of 2005.
/Countdown/2005/Albums
I’ve been trailing this for a while, so it’s time I got on with it and posted it.
Into the Pit: 021: Chimaira – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 05-December 2005
I only caught the second half of the first support Hatesphere‘s set. And they were pretty damned good, too. Good old-school thrash, really – from a band that clearly loved what they were doing, and that enthusiasm rubbed off on the crowd. The lead singer provided the quotes of the night, too: “Here’s a song […]
/DJ/Stormblast/005/01-December 2005
An interesting night, last night. Stormblast was fantastic fun with a great turnout and many amusingly pissed metallers. (I am kinda glad the viking drinking horns were forgotten, though)
/DJ/Stormblast/004/24-November 2005
The fourth night of Stormblast wasn’t too bad, though, considering we lost a number of our usual audience to a gig at D’n’R Live.
Into the Pit: 020: My Dying Bride – Live at Rios, Bradford – 19-November 2005
Support act Novembre (I missed first band The Prophecy) were ok, and evidently loved by a good proportion of the crowd, but not really to my taste. Standard doom, really, with a lot of each track on a DAT – made all the more obvious by their brave cover of Stripped. Full marks for effort, […]
/DJ/Stormblast/003/17-November 2005
The third night of Stormblast saw back to the core duo, as many nights were. This might have been the night where Viking drinking horns made their first appearance….
Into the Pit: 019: Ultraviolence – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 12-November 2005
The gig last night was interesting. The support acts were both great, while the headliner was on autopilot – and mightily pissed.
/DJ/Stormblast/002/10-November 2005
The second night of Stormblast introduced our first – of many – guest DJs over the few years that the night ran. We always had a policy of suggestions for songs we should play – extreme metal was, and still is, an extraordinarily broad church – and so having other DJs in as we needed, […]
Into the Pit: 018: Rico – Live at Academy 3 Manchester – 04-November 2005
I’ve been waiting patiently for over six years for another chance to see Rico live (at Reading in ’99), so to say I was looking forward to it was something of an understatement.
/DJ/Stormblast/001/03-November 2005
For the first eighteen months of tcf, it was a bit of a shotgun marriage between industrial and (ever-extreme) metal.
/DJ/tcf/v3/001/01-Nov 2005
The third and longest phase of tcf began here, as my previous night split into two. tcf very much changed after this point, as we began to explore the outer realms of industrial that bit more.