/Countdown/2020/Albums
Onto the third and final week of /Countdown/2020 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. As I’m sure I’ve explained before, I treat […]
Tag: Be My Enemy
/Welcome to the Future/133/Livestreams and new release round-up/03-Jul 2020
We keep going amid the lockdown. There are new releases, and still, new music coming through, and buying music right now is the only way we can help. The events […]
/Welcome to the Future/131/Livestreams and new release round-up/19-Jun 2020
We keep going amid the lockdown. There are new releases, and still, new music coming through, and buying music right now is the only way we can help. The events […]
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks /180-161
Continuing the process of wrapping up the last decade before it disappears too far into the rearview mirror, this is the second part of the best tracks of the 2010s. […]
/Countdown/2010s/Albums /100-81
The additional downtime at the moment has had one or two benefits for me – more of a chance to get my head down and get a few outstanding posts […]
/Welcome to the Future/113/Events, gigs and new release round-up/07-Feb 2020
A welcome to the many new readers of this page. This is the weekly Friday post, of new music coming your way this week and soon, as well as a […]
/Tuesday Ten/394/Tracks of the Month/Jan-20
The new year has started well for new music. In fact very well, as all kinds of new music has been flying at me from all directions, or so it […]
Tuesday Ten: 254: Tracks of the Month (March 2016)
For the third month in a row, it’s twenty songs to wrap up the past month – the avalanche just keeps on coming.
/Countdown/2014/Albums
Week three of the amodelofcontrol.com roundup of 2014, and this is, I guess, the big one. The albums of the year.
Memory of a Festival: 022: Infest 2014
A sign I’m clearly getting old – this was my fourteenth Infest. God, time flies. This year was perhaps a bit special for a number of reasons, though, at least […]
Tuesday Ten: 208: Money Money Money
After a mainly awful day at work today, it has been a useful reminder of why, really, I work: money.
Talk Show Host: 008: Be My Enemy
Phil Barry has been involved in various musical projects for years, notably of course Cubanate, but nowadays his focus is on his Be My Enemy project. With the second Be […]
Tuesday Ten: 194: Tracks of the Month (January 2014)
Before I get started with the first new tracks roundup of 2014, let’s have a quick roundup of the frankly staggering set of new albums announced/confirmed in the past week, […]
Tuesday Ten: 190: 2014 and upcoming music
To open each new year, I’ve for some years now posted a rundown of new music coming your way. This year is no exception, but it seems that there is […]
Into the Pit: 178: Be My Enemy – Live at Electrowerkz N1 – 10-August 2013
The height of summer, in this kinda dead period between all the festivals, is always a strange time to go to gigs. For a start, it is broad daylight still […]
Tuesday Ten: 182: Tracks of the Month (July 2013)
I was thinking about marking ten years of blogging with something special this week, but then I realised that I had a big list of great new songs to mention, […]
Into the Pit: 175: Be My Enemy – Live at Electrowerkz N1 – 10-August 2013
The height of summer, in this kinda dead period between all the festivals, is always a strange time to go to gigs. For a start, it is broad daylight still […]
Memory of a Festival: 015: Resistanz 2012
Last year, the first Resistanz festival in Sheffield was one of the talking points of the “scene” in the Spring, and due to family commitments that we couldn’t miss, we […]
Tuesday Ten: 136: Tracks of the Month (July 2011)
The first TT for a few weeks, and it is already back to my tracks of the month.
/Countdown/2010/Albums
A good year for music, so here’s twenty albums I think were great this year.