. The Lonely Bell – Ghost Town Burning (Blackjack Illuminist Records) – The Lonely Bell is Ali Murray, a Scottish songwriter and musician from the cold windy Isle of Lewis in the north of Scotland – well it says songwriter here, but these are instrumental pieces rather than songs. Apparently he writes and releases music…
George Henry Longly, Microgravities at Nicoletti – Caught this one last weekend, been meaning to say something, something to do with an increasingly misguided loyalty to an increasingly fractured East London Art Scene and the feeling that it surely is still worth the time and effort taken to cover it? “Microgravities is a solo exhibition…
Sasha Stiles – Binary Odes at Annka Kultys Gallery – Where were we? Back along the increasingly unfriendly Hackney Road, avoiding the new gatekeepers and heading for the industrial park around the back where the Annka Kultys Gallery now hides. Annka Kultys Gallery is one of the more reliable galleries on this side of town,…
Organ Thing of The Day: Dwight Trible announces a new album “Ancient Future” out 17th March via Gearbox Records and shares a track or a new single or whatever these thnigs are now. A new single called Trut. We#re told the album features special guests Kamasi Washington, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Greg Paul, Megashia Jackson, G.…
A couple of things, three or maybe four actually, one that we almost missed until the cup draw reminded us, the other, Eyeless Owl, something that’s been getting a bit of attention on the Other Rock Show in recent weeks, oh and Hammers of Misfortune, we haven’t ccauftght up with them in ages… . Eyeless…
Poly-Math / Thumpermonkey / A Formal Horse at Signature Brew, Blackhorse Road, Walthamstow, London, November 2022 – Another bit of end of year whatever, should really have said something about the whole angular delight of this gig already, it did happen a couple of weeks ago now (make that a couple of months, I just…
Turns out The Tub, the art space that was hiding in the alley behind Broadway Market here in Hackney didn’t so much close completely as evolve and become Lot Projects, first we knew of it was a sign, a sign is surely always a good sign? A quick post-encounter check on the rather underused Tub…
This week’s Other Rock Show went soemthing like this, Marina Organ presents an hour of music that uses unconventional structures and ‘other’ time signatures – gathered from the worldwide undergrounds of math rock, avant prog, weird electronica and strange pop. This week: music from Ahleuchatistas, King Crimson, NYOS, uSSSy, Sax Ruins, Cardiacs and more, and…
It was indeed with a genuine froth of excitement that we headed towards Caroline Coon‘s newly opened exhibition of paintings “Love of Place” on the first full day of it being open over in the plush gallery district of the West End – might have been even more exciting to see it in an unused…
ALBUM REVIEW: Moon Letters – Thank You From The Future – What we have here is a big lump of classic prog, a just released album that sounds like it has one foot planted in those glorious days when bands like Twelfth Night and IQ were making their first exciting moves, proper stuff you might…
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