/Welcome to the Future /255 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 01-Sep 2023
One week past Infest, and I’m just about back to normal. And now to plan for Cold Waves XI… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new […]
Tag: Bitter Ruin
/Tuesday Ten/466/Two Wires Thin
Following on from last week, we’re onto two-letter word song titles. And, it turns out, this was possibly the hardest of the lot – certainly going on the suggestions, there […]
/Tuesday Ten/450/Two Different Ways
This week’s post – the 450th /Tuesday Ten – was inspired by a conversation with Daisy while flicking through the music channels a couple of weeks ago. So much has […]
/Welcome to the Future/169/Livestreams and new releases 02-Apr 2021
Bandcamp Friday has rolled around again, so there’s yet again a ton of music to cover. In addition, I’ve overhauled the events page in a big way, so see the […]
/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 […]
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks /60-41
Continuing the process of wrapping up the last decade before it disappears too far into the rearview mirror, this is the eighth part of the best tracks of the 2010s. […]
/Welcome to the Future/122/Events, gigs and new release round-up/17-Apr 2020
We keep going amid the lockdown. There are new releases, and there is still new music coming through, and buying music right now is the only way we can help. […]
/Countdown/2019/Tracks
Onto week two of /Countdown/2019 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best tracks of the year. These might be the singles, they might be album tracks, they […]
/Tuesday Ten/361/Tracks of the Month/Feb 2019
Another month down, thus another tracks of the month post – quite the mix this month, with a mix of new, returning and unexpected music – and in a variety […]
Welcome to the Future: 071: Events, gigs and new release round-up 15-February 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 […]
/Countdown/2014/Tracks
Here we go, then, with the run-down of the best tracks of 2014 – according to me, anyway. 2014 has been an odd year, as friends will know – life […]
Tuesday Ten: 203: By The Sea
This week, I’m finally getting ’round to looking at a subject that I can’t quite believe I haven’t touched on before. There are countless songs about the sea, clearly an […]
Tuesday Ten: 200: Tracks of the Month (March 2014)
So, seven years – almost to the week – since I started this series, the Tuesday Ten hits #200. That’s 200 lengthy posts, and 2,000 artists, songs, albums, venues (hey, […]
/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 […]
Into the Pit: 159: Bitter Ruin – Live at The Borderline – 11-February 2013
Concluding three gigs within a week of up-and-coming acts, all three of which I’ve been following for a while now, was Bitter Ruin’s return to London for their first show […]
/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 […]
Into the Pit: 141: Bitter Ruin – Live at The Borderline – 10-July 2012
I think it took me a little while to come around to Bitter Ruin in the first place, but to be fair, the first time around I only saw a […]
Tuesday Ten: 140: Tracks of the Month (August 2011)
Time for another of my monthly new(ish) track roundups. You know the drill by now, right?
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 […]
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 […]