/Memory of a Festival /036 /Infest 2022
One of the obvious casualties of COVID since early 2020 was live music, both in the form of gigs, and festivals. For many, both 2020 and 2021 were almost entirely […]
Tag: Suicide Commando
/Tuesday Ten /501 /Infest 2022 Preview
In ten days time, and a couple of years later than originally expected, I will be attending my twentieth Infest. I first went along thanks to the invite from a […]
/Welcome to the Future /220 /Events, Livestreams and new releases 29-Jul 2022
The end of July (already!), and here’s this week’s new release roundup. Anyway. This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to […]
/Welcome to the Future/213/Events, Livestreams and new releases 20-May 2022
Fewer releases again this week, at least compared to the last few weeks… The post, then, is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod […]
/Welcome to the Future/198/Events, Livestreams and 2022 New Releases round-up
Into 2022 and the cold, grey January, and on the first Friday of 2022, it is time for my traditional round-up of what we know about (relevant) new music coming […]
/Countdown/2020 /Compilations and re-issues
Welcome to the amodelofcontrol.com review of 2020, which begins this week. Over this and the next two Tuesdays, I’ll be rounding up the best music of the year in various […]
/Welcome to the Future/144/Livestreams and new release round-up/25-Sep 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/139/Livestreams and new release round-up/21-Aug 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 […]
Memory of a Festival: 032: Black Celebration
Back in the mists of time, there used to be a steady stream of all-day “festival” events in the London goth/industrial scene. There was Gotham, there was Black Celebration, and […]
/Countdown/2013 /Disappointments
Regular readers will be well used to this by now – at the end of each year, I round up my year in music over the course of successive weeks. […]
/Tuesday Ten/163/Devil’s Night
The concept of the devil in popular music has been around at least as far back as early blues legend Robert Johnson, who was of course reputed to have made […]
Memory of a Festival: 016: Infest 2012
Probably one of the weekends of the year I most look forward to is the August Bank Holiday Weekend.
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 […]
Memory of a Festival: 011.5: Festival Kinetik v4.0 – Phase 05
By the time Monday dawned, I was starting to flag fast. To get through thirty-six bands – and to actually try and see all of them – while doing some […]
Tuesday Ten: 116: Samples
The use of sampling in music has been around for some time now, and at points the use of it has approached levels of extraordinary musicality and ingenuity. At other […]
/Countdown/2000s/Tracks /100-81
I mentioned this last week, and here is where I get started.
Tuesday Ten: 015: The Ghosts Of Infest Past
We are finally in the week preceding Infest, so it is perhaps only right for an Infest-based Tuesday Ten. Not just ten artists, though – this is something of a […]
Tuesday Ten: 014: The DJ Emergency Kit
This week's TT is inspired by a number of things, but triggered mainly in the most recent-sense by Carl's question the other day, and what I have noticed as a […]
/Tuesday Ten/012/tcf and Stormblast top fives
So, this week's Tuesday Ten. It's kinda ended up as a Tuesday Twenty, in fact. Let me explain…After the apparent controversy of a negative list last week, it's time for […]
But Listen: 038: Suicide Commando – Bind, Torture, Kill
Johan Van Roy has been at this music lark for some time now – nearly twenty years, in fact. And in all that time, he has written and released songs […]