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DJ: Guest: 005: Black Sheep – 27-February 2005

Last night was good fun. Not too bad a turnout.

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Into the Pit: 009: Mastodon – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 14-February 2005

Last night was otherwise Mastodon at Corp. Never before have a band had a more apt website name (mastodonrocks.com). Buoyed on by a packed (and enthusiastic) crowd, they seemed to start sluggishly with the mammoth 14-minute epic that is Hearts Alive, sounding somewhat muddy, but as it came to an end everything just seemed to […]

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DJ: Guest: 004: Gloominati – 13-February 2005

Attendance was small, but good to see those that did make the effort, thanks for coming down. For what it’s worth I was not entirely keen on it being on a Sunday evening either. Some fascinating rumour/conjecture at the end of the night, ears to the ground on that one.

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Into the Pit: 008: Rammstein – Live at Arena Nottingham – 07-February 2005

Support act Apocalyptica were something of a surprise – somehow having not managed to hear them before, they were fantastic. Highlight – christ, where do I start? Seek and Destroy was incredible, the intro spiel to Bittersweet was hilarious (lets just say he wasn’t too complimentary about the vocalists on the track – Ville from […]

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Into the Pit: 007: Pop Will Eat Itself – Live in Birmingham – 22-January 2005

Can [we] Dig It? Hell yeah!

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Into the Pit: 006: Machines – Live at The Grapes Sheffield – 13-January 2005

…Machines turned out to be yet another fantastic local band. Five, maybe six tracks in 45 minutes. Tool influenced, but not slavishly.

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Into the Pit: 005: Mad Capsule Markets – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 11-December 2004

Three hugely mismatched bands, a packed Corporation and a mental crowd. We need more gigs like that in Sheffield.

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/Countdown/2004/Albums

It’s kinda scary really. I have been reading others’ lists for albums of the year and trying to think what mine are. And I can barely think of any. Has this year been a bad year for music, or is it just that I have been distracted by things for much of the year and […]

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Into the Pit: 004: Rammstein – Live at T-Mobile Arena Prague – 03-December 2004

Getting to the gig was no real problem – outside our hotel ran three tram routes – and amazingly enough, one route ran direct to the T-Mobile Arena! The venue is huge – the national ice hockey arena, no less – so by the time we got there most of the 10,000 people were already […]

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Into the Pit: 003: Killing Miranda – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 28-November 2004

First act Dyonisis were a pleasant surprise – two female vocalists, a guitarist and bassist – with various electronics and beats on a backing track. Crippled by what was frankly an appalling sound set-up, there were moments when they really did sound good, especially the acappella track. A demo is coming soon apparently (as is […]

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Into the Pit: 002: Assemblage 23 – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 25-October 2004

Run Level Zero were…well, a bit dull really. To start with they very much reminded me of Aslan Faction, trying far too hard to ape bands like :wumpscut:, but with far less aggression and lacking in the killer songs to back it up. To be fair to them, the last couple of tracks did improve […]

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Into the Pit: 001: Skinny Puppy – The Forum – 19-July 2004

Last night lived up to all its billing and far, far more: by general agreement the best gig most of us had ever been to.

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/DJ/tcf/v1/014/28-June 2004

It was a short run, but the weekly nights in Huddersfield came to an end the week I moved to Sheffield. They would continue monthly for a little while longer.

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/DJ/tcf/v2/001/22-June 2004

The second generation of tcf, if you will, began at The Nelson in June 2004, and began a near-weekly run for quite some time.

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DJ: Guest: 003: Black Sheep – 20-June 2004

This was my first guest DJ appearance in Leeds, and was at the now long-gone Phono, as a guest of Phono Paul at the Sunday night institution in Leeds that was Black Sheep. Only my set is listed.