/Tuesday Ten /550 /Caught By The Fuzz
For the 550th Tuesday Ten – almost exactly seventeen years since I began this series – I’m turning my attention to the police.
Tag: Atari Teenage Riot
/Tuesday Ten /526 /Formed A Band (Eponymous)
It turns out that lots of artists like making things about themselves. That is, putting your own name, or more to the point your band name, in your song names. And, in same cases, the album as well.
/Tuesday Ten/421/Follow The Leader
The madness of 2020 has not been kind to autocratic or authoritarian leaders, who have been left wanting when it comes to dealing with a crisis that came pretty much out of nowhere, and that they can’t spin themselves out of. That said, all of them are still in power as I write this.
/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 thousands of others, to the first night of the Heineken Festival that year, ostensibly to see Pop Will Eat Itself, but that evening I also […]
/Transmission/001/the a-z of industrial/a
I’ve been hinting at this for a while, and finally, here we go. amodelofcontrol.com, as I’ve hinted, has gained a voice at last, and if you’ve never heard me speak before (in my previous days on Dark Assimilation, or on occasional guest appearances at I Die: You Die), here’s your chance I guess.
Tuesday Ten: 287: Tracks of the Month (March 1997)
Ten years of Tens. 287 posts, featuring 1,261 artists, 2,121 tracks, 1,817 albums, and 93 tracks from 81 artists named track of the month. In addition, there have been 42 best-of-year posts (actually going back as far as 2004), and run-downs of the best of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s (which was across a total […]
Memory of a Festival: 026: Infest 2016
Over the weekend of this year’s Infest, there was some discussion over the current state of the industrial (and wider) scene. In many other scenes – or indeed in “mainstream” popular music, there is an air of nostalgia as record labels struggling with new sales, are relying heavily on reissues of the old, particularly on […]
/Tuesday Ten /224 /Teenage Kicks
The teenage years – the hinterland between childhood and adulthood, where many find their voice, start to shape their own future and begin to form their musical and cultural tastes. The whole idea of the teenager, though, has changed over time, frequently thanks to cultural shifts and trends, and often there is an image of […]
/Countdown/2012 /Disappointments
The end of November looms, so it is time once again to review 2012 in music.
Into the Pit: 123: Atari Teenage Riot – Live at the Garage – 29-February 2012
It can hardly have escaped any gig goers attention nowadays just how eye-watering the price of gig tickets has got of late. I’m not talking about arena gigs, which have always attracted a premium, but even mid-sized shows. When it has got to the point that it is rare for a signed band to be […]
Tuesday Ten: 127: Tracks of the Month (March 2011)
Where on earth is time going? Time once again for my usual monthly roundup of great new songs.
Tuesday Ten: 095: Until Death (Us Do Part)
I’ve been thinking a lot about death of late. A friend sadly passed away on Sunday night after a long battle with illness, while in the musical world the death of Alex Chilton, frontman of Big Star, last week cast something of a shadow over SXSW – not least because he was due to play […]
/Countdown/1990s/Tracks /120-101
The fifth instalment of this lengthy rundown.