/Countdown /2022 /Gigs
Back to writing about the best gigs of the year for the first time in three years. Some statistics for my gig-going in 2022. I went to 36 shows (each […]
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/Welcome to the Future /224 /Events, Livestreams and new releases 16-Sep 2022
Quickly into mid-September already, and /amodelofcontrol.com will be away in Chicago next week, covering Cold Waves X (expect the usual report and photos, and potentially some content on FB/Instagram along […]
/Tuesday Ten/492/Tracks of the Month/May-22
As we hurtle through 2022 and crash into summer, here’s the latest set of new music to get you going.
/Welcome to the Future/214/Events, Livestreams and new releases 27-May 2022
A bit of a grim end to the week, really, with the sudden death of Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode announced yesterday (among a number of other notable deaths within […]
/Tuesday Ten/484/Fifteen Years
This week, what started out as a quick round-up of the best music I was listening to at the time (not necessarily new music initially), thanks to a request from […]
/Welcome to the Future/198/Events, Livestreams and 2022 New Releases round-up
Into 2022 and the cold, grey January, and on the first Friday of 2022, it is time for my traditional round-up of what we know about (relevant) new music coming […]
/Tuesday Ten/451/Last Stop: This Town
In a decision that perhaps would have surprised me a few years ago, never mind my wife, later this week we move out of London, our home for more than […]
/Tuesday Ten/418/Twenty-Five Years Gigging
Twenty-five years ago yesterday (20-July 1995), I made it to my first proper gig. I headed over to Roundhay Park in the north-eastern edges of Leeds, along with tens of […]
/Tuesday Ten/414/Senses Working Overtime/Touch
Just over two years ago, I asked for suggestions around songs involving the senses. Needless to say, this ended up being a gargantuan thread, with the easy decision made to […]
Welcome to the Future: 056: Events, gigs and new release round-up 21-September 2018
Another Friday, another round-up. As always this is a look at upcoming releases, relevant music news and upcoming events and gigs worth spending some of your time at. It is […]
/Tuesday Ten/336/Tracks of the Month/Jun-18
Back to the first Tuesday of the Month now, after a really, really busy month that left me without time anyway last week – that and there were a couple […]
Welcome to the Future: 044: Events, gigs and new release round-up 08-June 2018
Another Friday, another round-up. As always this is a look at upcoming releases, relevant music news and upcoming events and gigs worth spending some of your time at. It is […]
Welcome to the Future: 039: Events, gigs and new release round-up 04-May 2018
Back after a week off for Whitby, another Friday, another round-up. As always this is a look at upcoming releases, relevant music news and upcoming events and gigs worth spending […]
Tuesday Ten: 310: Tracks of the Month (August/September 1997)
A double dose of 1997 this month, after Infest (and of course the writing of Memory of a Festival: 028 that followed it) took up my time at the end […]
/Tuesday Ten/289/European Me
I toyed with the idea of a post celebrating Europe last summer around the referendum vote, but frankly, I was too damned down about the whole thing to even consider […]
Tuesday Ten: 286: When I Grow Up
Next week marks ten years since I began the Tuesday Ten series, at the end of March 2007. I was 28 then, and much has changed in the decade since.
Tuesday Ten: 278: Camden Town
About eighteen years ago, while I was still reading Geography at King’s College London, the subject of my dissertation proposal came up.
/Countdown/2016/Albums
Part three of the round-up of 2016 comes to you from the final week of our honeymoon (from the warm sunshine of the Dominican Republic). Sorry, not sorry.
Thursday Ten: 271: Tracks of the Month (September 1996)
Onto part eight of my 1996 roundup. As a reminder, I’m marking twenty years of writing about music (my writing long pre-dates this website going live) across this year with […]
Tuesday Ten: 248: Tracks of the Month (January 2016)
After as usual a month or two off from this – new releases are thin on the ground at the end of the year anyway, and the end-of-year lists (start […]