“I’ve just put up a post at Sofasound about a live box set which is going to be released on the 29th of next month. Gallows humour, eh?” so announced Peter Hammill via his Twitter feed “And now, ladies and gentlemen, news of the release of a project on which I’ve been working for most…
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo – Oscar ‘Zeta’ Acosta (Tangerine Press) – “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.,,,”, that oft quoted (or misquoted) opening line from Hunter S Thomson’s classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it turned Oscar ‘Zeta’ Acosta into some…
Organ Thing of the day; the rather leftfield beauty of Mothers and their recently released Render Another Ugly Method, an album alive with simple cleverness, with bright colours and beautiful discordance that never ever gets awkward, here it is via their Bandcamp, you really don’t need our words… . We choose to share this today…
Cover bands, tribute bands and the rest, they were cool for a couple of minutes back there way back before they started cluttering up every venue and well, no, we don’t need most of ’em, but we do need Black Sabbitch and those excellent videos they keep posting from old Louisiana train yards or new…
“We were encouraging each other to be who we believed ourselves to be all the time” – Grian Chatten, lead vocals, Fontaines D.C. Monday Monday, a hint of the Spring and sun in the air, the weekend was mostly about pomegranates, lemons and a lime, that and fresh air, here’s some Big Sir, this album…
This is Not This Heat, the band who have been recently taking the glorious sound and songs of This Heat one step forward with some of the best live performances by anyone in recent times (no hyperbole there then), that Barbican performance from 2017 is still playing in our heads, have announced one more final…
TRACEY EMIN, A Fortnight of Tears – White Cube, Bermondsey, London SE1, opening night, 5th Feb 2019 – There’s a buzz in the air walking down Bermondsey Street in the cold and the rain, there’s crowds of people all heading in the same direction, feels more like a medium sized rock concert rather than the…
