/Welcome to the Future /231 /Events, Livestreams and new releases 09-Dec 2022
I got started with my /Countdown /2022 coverage this past week, with more to come in the next few weeks. In the meantime… This post is a roundup of (relevant […]
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/Tuesday Ten/440/Lulled By Numbers
After a few weeks of resuming lockdown-related /Tuesday Ten posts, I thought this week a diversion into something a little more frivolous might be needed. So I’m returning to an […]
/Tuesday Ten/422/Loser
Last week, I looked at Leaders. Following on from that this week, I’m looking at Losing – as with poor leaders, you get losers, and like last week’s post, this […]
/Tuesday Ten/413/Senses Working Overtime/Sound
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 […]
/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. […]
/Tuesday T(w)en(ty)/376/Man on the Moon
Fifty years ago today, three NASA astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins) left the Earth on the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, and four days later, […]
/Countdown/2018/Gigs
This year’s statistics – I saw 51 days worth of gigs and 156 live sets. It featured 140 different bands, and I saw sixteen twice – and all that lot […]
/Tuesday Ten/341/Music and Geekery – From Ash to Zep/First Presented at Nine Worlds 2018
For the first time the other Friday, I took /amodelofcontrol.com on the road. Sure, I’ve done a semi-regular podcast for the past year or so (next one before Infest, it […]
/Transmission/003/the a-z of industrial/c/part one
The third part of Transmission, the a-z of industrial. Unlike “b”, where I just about had enough for one episode, there are so many bands beginning with “c” that this […]
Welcome to the Future: 024: Music news and new release round-up 12-January 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: 312: Connected
Despite the all-pervading influence that the internet has over our lives nowadays – pretty much any information we need, many purchases, interacting with Government at almost any level, not to […]
Memory of a Festival: 027: Cold Waves V
For the third year running – although it was a bit touch-and-go this year with the wedding and everything else, and my wife chose not to come along this time […]
Tuesday Ten: 257: Tracks of the Month (April 2016)
For the second of the double-bill today, back to the normal programming with the best tracks of the past month.
/Tuesday Ten/235/Twenty Years of Gigs
Last week actually marked a significant milestone in my music fandom – 20-July was exactly twenty years since I first attended a live, professionally promoted gig. That first show, by […]
/Countdown/1980s/Tracks /100-81
A couple of years ago, I posted the best of the 90s, and the best of the 00s, from my point of view.
/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 […]
Memory of a Festival: 014: BIMFest 2011
So for one final flourish this year, in a year where I have attended more gigs and seen more bands than I have done in a long, long time, I […]
/Countdown/1990s/Tracks /60-41
Part eight, and we’re nearly there.
Tuesday Ten: 077: Tracks of the Month (June 2009)
It’s time for my run-down of ten of the best tracks I’ve heard in the past month.
Tuesday Ten: 043: Sheffield
I listened to a radio show from last week that resulted in the inspiration for this week’s Tuesday Ten. And what was that show? It was Jarvis Cocker’s musical map […]