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Bloodstock 2012

05/09/2012

Their fist-pumping fusion of brutish guitar and folk-esque synth lines make for a brilliant way to kick off my Bloodstock. They bring a feeling of raw ‘epic-ness’ that, although strived for by...

Loitered Lens: Public Image Limited

02/09/2012

Bowie may have snubbed the closing ceremony, Fatboy Slim may have been caught miming by the second loop of the supposedly live soundtrack, and the faint strains of the Sex Pistols may well have been...

Newrising: The Half Moon, Putney

30/08/2012

Now call me old-fashioned but I do believe that some musical styles should not be combined. Reggae, funk and folk are all great genres of music, but like tequila, bourbon and cherry cola, some...

Teengirl Fantasy Live Dates

28/08/2012

'a form of discourse between the band and their instruments'. Coo! Does it count if it's just the keyboardist shouting at the pitchbend wheel for being sticky? The rest of the description...

Cambridge Rock Festival 2012

27/08/2012

You could criticise the festival bill for relying on unashamed nostalgia acts as headliners, and especially for the way more forward-looking acts like Maschine, Winter in Eden, Kyrbgrinder or Panic...

King Krule/Rinse

26/08/2012

King Krule -the primary creative vessel for 17-year-old south east London-based singer/producer/songwriter Archy Marshall- is readying its latest release, a double A-side single featuring two...

Loitered Lens: Drunken Balordi [Photos]

26/08/2012

'The night started with what appeared to be an Irish folk band taking the stage – Drunken Balordi comprised a singer/acoustic guitarist wearing an Irish pub t-shirt, bass guitarist, violinist,...

Feed the Rhino: Hevy Fest

24/08/2012

In an age where (a little sadly) aesthetics are as important to the hardcore scene as musical ability, Feed The Rhino cover all of the bases – as one hipster said to another, “we’ve gotta catch...

BLOCatastrophe

22/08/2012

After what I experienced at Bloc I have to admit that I and thousands of others were completely taken in by the promise of a professionally-run event in an innovative new venue with an incredible...

Devil Sold His Soul [Live]

21/08/2012

Then, coming to the end of a great set, disaster strikes. “This is our last song”, announces Ed. We’re treated to the opening guitar line of what I suspect was ‘Darkness Prevails’, before...

Loitered Lens: Jurojin

20/08/2012

'Although during the first few songs, they came across as your standard four-piece doomy metal band with powerful vocals and formulaic song structures, when their turbaned tabla drums player joined...

Blur, New Order [Live]

18/08/2012

New Order. Their set is fuelled by absence’s tension from the outset but Bernard Sumner is making light of this. After the group are introduced he quips “apparently we’re New Order, we’ll do...

HEVY Festival

16/08/2012

When your guitar feedback section is so long that your guitarist has time to have a crafty check of his iPhone, maybe it's time to just get on with the song already. HEVY Festival is HUGE. This...

Viza: Interview

15/08/2012

So do they think that music can change the world? Chris told me, “I think it could. I think it allows people, it gives people an outlet. It gives people I guess the right to think freely or...

Loitered Lens: The Members

12/08/2012

The Members are: JC Carroll, Chris Payne and Rat Scabies...

Cambridge Folk Festival 2012

12/08/2012

As I helped what could only be someone’s Gran onto a chair so she could get a better view and was hugged by a crazed hippy forcing me to eat some one of her love heart sweets, I could only think...

Hawk Eyes: Mini Interview

11/08/2012

We’ve never really tried to craft an image, just evolve organically – differently from ‘desperate’ bands. Modern Bodies was wall-to-wall get fucked, whereas Ideas is a progression from that. ...

Queer British Paganism: Meltdown 2012

11/08/2012

Opening with Derek Jarman's Journey to Avebury the scene was gently set. A super 8 movie. Almost a travel document. A visual diary, a diary which continued throughout the night, for this wasn't a...

Wanda Jackson: Interview

10/08/2012

Would the Queen of Rockabilly be able to satisfy expectations or would it be a case of your granny’s sister grabbing the microphone at your cousin’s wedding after one too many glasses of fizz? ...

Pig Destroyer Announce Album and Tour

09/08/2012

Grindcore misanthropists Pig Destroyer bring back the gnarly. With a new album on Relapse just cut, bearing the title: Book Burner, the band are back after a five-year gap. A huge world tour follows...

Arrows Of Love + Bank Of Joy

08/08/2012

Even in the venue itself, there's the swimming event taking place on the big screen. Thankfully for at least an hour, all attention was briefly shifted for some live music. Because of the club...

Steve Vai announces Tour/Album

06/08/2012

Virtuoso guitarist and visionary composer Steve Vai is set to release a new solo album of original material, on September 11th (in the UK) called ‘The Story Of Light’. the album does feature...

Civil Civic + Umez: The Macbeth

03/07/2012

As with many gigs around this time of year, this was something of a competition: bands versus football. One end of The Macbeth was rather dominated by a projector and screen (showing an entertaining...

Viva le Rock/Gypsy Hotel: The Garage

30/06/2012

I’ve always found Highbury Garage (I’m still refusing to call it Relentless Garage) a rather sterile venue, but when the evening began with a male unicyclist, Count Adriano Fettuchini, stripping...

The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls [Live]

14/06/2012

It is with sadness that I must report the departure of The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls. A band I had the pleasure of bearing witness to just this April 2012. The band decided it is the right time...

Loitered Lens: Joel Sarakula [Pics]

08/01/2012

Hipster Folk and laid back dirt rave, gypsy funk with a grow-mo pomo comb-over… Vicariously talented wunderkind Joel Sarakula has been a collectors item for a number of years...

Loitered Lens: Intense [Pics]

01/01/2012

UK Metal's Ronseal Band… Intense struggle against adversity and finally give the audience what they want: Drama and penicillin. Reading through the history of the band it becomes...

Loitered Lens: Inmoria [Pics]

25/12/2011

Inmoria bring a new level of power and confidence to power metal. It's all in the wrist and the jaw. There is a metal tendon that joins both appendages (and in true metal the jaw is not...

Loitered Lens: If [Pics]

18/12/2011

Who are these men? Where do they come from? How do they keep going? Shut up and pass the gasoline. A band comes together for so many reasons and after a while the purpose becomes unimportant....

Loitered Lens: The Castells [Pics]

11/12/2011

The Castells are cool. "Wearing daft shirts and playing effortlessly, The Castells become one, effortlessly. Baby belle wax figurines, A penguin becomes a tangerine. If time...

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