/Tuesday Ten /496 /You Are Free (To Do As We Tell You)
The last few years feel like the civilised world has been on something of a precipice, buffeted from all sides by extremist, reactionary opinions and decisions that take us backwards.
Tag: Amanda Palmer
Welcome to the Future: 074: Events, gigs and new release round-up 15-March 2019
It’s Friday, therefore time for the usual amodelofcontrol.com round-up of new music coming your way this week and soon, as well as a look at the events and gigs in […]
/Tuesday Ten/334/Pictures of You
This week is all about repetit… oh wait, that was last week on /333/Repetition, sorry. In a change from the originally planned programming (I will post the Tuesday Ten about […]
/Countdown/2017/Gigs
Some statistics: over 2017, I saw 114 live sets, across 45 days-worth of events (I count festivals by the day, so Infest covers three days-worth of events). Remarkably, by the […]
Into The Pit: 202: Amanda Palmer – Union Chapel – 16-November 2017
I have been following Amanda Palmer – and her original band The Dresden Dolls – for a great deal longer than I thought. I remember stumbling across the latter band […]
/Countdown/2013/Gigs
After last year’s exhausting run of gigs, 2013 was even crazier. I saw 66 days of gigs – seeing nearly 160 live sets in the process, in three countries, six […]
/Countdown/2012/Tracks
Yet again, this list was a tough one. 2012 actually ended up being an impressive year for new music, as far as I was concerned, it just didn’t all come […]
/Countdown/2012 /Disappointments
The end of November looms, so it is time once again to review 2012 in music.
Into the Pit: 151: Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra – Live at KOKO – 23-October 2012
Amanda Palmer has been in the music news (and beyond) a lot this year, after smashing all kinds of records in terms of raising money by “crowdsourcing”, if you will, […]
Tuesday Ten: 157: Tracks of the Month (June 2012)
Here are ten more songs and artists you should hear about, that have been rocking my world over the past month.
Into the Pit: 137: Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra – Live at Village Underground – 20-June 2012
Amanda Palmer has been big news of late, not for being dicked over by a record label, or for controversy over a video, or happening to be married to Neil […]
/Countdown/2011/Gigs
During 2011 I saw an awful lot of live sets. At a rough count, around about 125 (including supports and festivals) – and I saw a few bands more than […]
Into the Pit: 107: Amanda Palmer – Live at Heaven – 02-September 2011
Like so many Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls fans, I’m no stranger to seeing her live – this was my fifth time (one Dresden Dolls show, two full AFP shows, and two […]
/Tuesday Ten /124 /Food & Drink
I was a little surprised, I have to admit, when I realised just how many songs my partner and I could think of that reference, are tenuously linked to, or […]
/Countdown/2010/Gigs
The problem with my gig-going in 2010 wasn’t that I went to too few, or too many – although for various reasons I did miss a number of gigs I […]
/Tuesday Ten/102/Getting Naked
I can’t remember how the thinking for this week came about, but it might well have had something to do with the number of people who were stripping down in […]
Tuesday Ten: 097: Tracks of the Month (April 2010)
A new month, a new roundup of new and not-so-new tracks I think you should hear.
Into the Pit: 088: Amanda Palmer – Live at The Underworld – 25-April 2010
The queue to get in was big, they opened the doors late, and as we were a bit of a way down the queue, we missed most of the first […]
/Countdown/2000s/Albums /25-01
So today marks the last part of my rundown of the decade’s music. Next week will be the usual rundown of the month’s best tracks, and then I’ll be starting […]
/Countdown/2000s/Tracks /20-01
While for me the past decade hasn’t been the revelation musically that the 90s were, there was still some amazing material. And here are the top twenty songs of the […]