Where is the art? Where is the heart? Are we slipping? Do we care? Almost a week since we last wrote about a painting or a performance or an exciting piece of art, a little longer since we last wrote about a actual show we had been to. We are still going and checking out shows,…
Five? Five more musical slices, five exciting musical things that have drifted this way in the last week or so, five things that stood out from the hundreds of slices of music that drift this way every week, five musical things we think are worthy of more investigation from you. You have the music, you…
“Seven tracks of jarring, loud, obnoxious, shrill, angular noise rock/no wave/brutal prog insanity by the master of disaster. People who like “Revenge of The Flying Luttenbachers” will most likely be into this. There’s no jazz on this one, folks”, the words of Weasel Walter, yer man from the glorious Flying Luttenbachers and quite a few…
We haven’t done that five slices of music thing for a little bit have we? We haven’t mentioned Lice yet, we need to mention Lice, here’s their horse, you don’t need any editorial, five and a bit bits of music, links details and why can’t new band’s ever check out to see if the name…
The rather enticing New Arts & Music Programme at Hackney’s authentically Tudor Sutton House goes on this weekend with This Heat’s (or This Is Not This Heat’s) Charles Bullen. “Charles Bullen, of seminal experimental art rock group This Heat and its current iteration This Is Not This Heat, performs solo percussive prepared guitar in the…
Extra Life’s beautifully voiced Charlie Looker has announced a debut solo album “Simple Answers”, the album release date is June, it will come out via Last Things Records, he’s unveiled a first single Ritual Fire, you can hear it here, the song can be found further down this very page,,, “This song could be about…
So we’re walking down the Hackney Road, coming back from the Semi Skimmed opening amongst other things, art-dropping, well carefully placing, these things are never dropped, always carefully placed, we’re walking home, minding our own business when without warning, a metal attack, it struck me like a Sledgehammer, or something like that, “Oi! Are…
Ten years of Cafe Oto? One of London’s finest venues with an always exciting programe of cutting-edge music as well as a decent bar and a place just to hang out and enjoy, they’re celebrating, and so they should…. “Hi there, Ten years ago today we hosted our first concert. At the time we had…
A Semi Skimmed pop up, what kind of label are we going to stick on this one then? Pop art? Street art? Urban art? It doesn’t really matter what we call it does it? A room full of art, mostly painting, a room full of colour. lots of colour, (and lots of people) almost always…
Star Period Star just released a new album, they released it on smoked-coloured vinyl, the album is called Daylight Spending Time. The band say they have “returned to the use of “wobbletones”, radical guitar tunings where the lower strings are tuned so low that they not only create micro-tonal chords, but the notes bend or…
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