/Tuesday Ten/447/Talk About The Weather
This winter in the UK has seen another time where the weather has seen fit to make an already crap time (lockdown) even worse. There’s been heavy snow, storms, lots […]
Tag: live
/Into the Pit/209/Red Box live in London/24-Sep 2019
The seemingly inexhaustible jukebox that is my brain has a regular supply of new music added to it, by account of my voracious appetite for new songs and new artists […]
/Click Click/006/Statiqbloom/Spit Mask/11-Jun 2019
Nearly halfway through 2019, and the gigs keep on coming. After a week off (I was away in Greece), there were three shows back-to-back as we entered the second week […]
/Into the Pit/206/Katatonia
I’ve long felt Katatonia to belong to the lineage of underappreciated bands in metal. They are a band that have been around for a remarkably long time – they initially […]
Click Click: 004: AlterRed: 13-July 2018
“Local” bands in London are ten-a-penny, but finding ones I actually like, or want to listen to more than once, or go to see live, are rather rarer. Move into […]
Click Click: 002: 3TEETH: 10-May 2018
It is rather remarkable, now I think about it, just how fast 3TEETH have risen in the industrial ranks. I only came across the band five years ago – their […]
Into the Pit: 205: FOXCUNT: 20-April 2018
Two Fridays on the trot out at small gigs in London, away from the centre. In recent years, particularly as rampant development has swept away much of the Alternative landscape […]
Into The Pit: 204: Covenant: 17-March 2018
I’ve been meaning to write about a few of the gigs I’ve attended this year, but various things – not least my working day and other commitments – have rather […]
/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: 203: Beat:Cancer Festival – Electrowerkz, N1 – 18-November 2017
It is easy to forget, sometimes, that what we call “our scene” in the industrial world is not one homogenous entity. While bands that reach wider popularity will naturally appear […]
Into the Pit: 197: Summer Nights in Small Venues
For many, gigs in the heat of summer evenings are a tough sell, particularly in small venues (outdoor, festival shows of course are a different matter entirely). However, the summer […]
Into the Pit: 196: Skinny Puppy: O2 Forum Kentish Town, NW5: 30-May 2017
The announcement of a European Skinny Puppy tour earlier in the year (“Down the Sociopath Too Euro 2017“) was, I have to say, a bit of a surprise. It has […]
Into the Pit: 195: Cubanate – O2 Academy Islington, N1 – 30-April 2017
One of the must-see shows in the calendar for the past few months finally arrived over the weekend.
Into the Pit: 194: Sunn O))) – Barbican, London – 21-March 2017
I rather wondered, after the first time I saw Sunn O))) live, whether I could physically stand going a second time. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy it, it was […]
/Countdown/2016/Gigs
This has been a quiet year.
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 […]
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” […]
Into the Pit: 193: Ruby – Live at Servant Jazz Quarters: London N16
Lesley Rankine’s career in music now spans a few decades, and more than a few styles. She first came to prominence in the vicious, no-wave influenced punkish-rock of Silverfish, a […]
Into the Pit: 192: Laibach – Live at The Forum Kentish Town – 12-April 2016
I’m struggling to think of a single band in “our thing” that has had as much mainstream coverage – as in appearing in the news, not just in the music […]
Into the Pit: 191: The Black Queen – Live at Oslo Hackney – 05-February 2016
This was one of those gigs that I took a while to make a call on. The Black Queen is a new side-project very, very different from the “parent” band […]