Avoiding Tequila Shots, Rocking Out To Black Moth and Bringing Disco Back with Galaxians at British Wildlife Festival 2013
Leeds definitely knows how to party. Friday and Saturday was British Wildlife Festival at The Brudenell Social Club...
Aggi Doom / Palms, Leeds, Wharf Chambers, 30th August 2012
The best part about going to gigs when touring bands are involved is checking out new bands and new music. The best thing about going to gigs at Wharf Chambers is that you will always find see someone you know there, or if you don’t, make friends with someone new. There is nothing else like...
I SURVIVED BEACONS FESTIVAL 2012
Fucking hell. Now THAT was an experience. By THAT, I mean, Beacons Festival 2012, which, as it turned out, was to be the first ever music festival I’ve ever been to, ever. So what was it like? I know the organizers prefer previews rather than reviews, nothing wrong with that, it helps to generate interest...
In Photos: Crosswave 2nd September, Leeds, Bar Room Bar
Last Friday was just fucking incredible. Crosswave, which is our clubnight that we co-organize with the guys from Deathray was absolutely massive. For one night, we transformed the entire upstairs bit of Bar Room Bar in Leeds into a dark, smoky lair with our smoke machines, lasers and visuals and pump out the kind of...
Ritualz †‡†
Hailing from Mexico City, Ritualz‘s sound is an unlikely marriage of genres, something that you’d never think would work but it does, and very fucking well too. A merciless blend of black metal vocals, noise, rave synths and hip hop beats, he has been getting a lot of attention lately, especially with the use of that...
Ulterior – Wild In Wildlife
The moment we have all been waiting for is here. Ulterior’s debut is finally out. It’s called Wild In Wildlife and have already got the folks at NME raving, not that I give a shit about the NME. But anyway, just to get folks clued in on this awesome release, they’ve given away another free...
Plastic Zooms
A japanese goth band!!!! What a find!! Plastic Zooms came under my radar via ULTERIOR – I can’t remember how or why but anyway, don’t even THINK of dismissing them as a japanese version of The Horrors – because they are not. Songs like Under///Black may fall victim to that assumption, because it’s very much...
S.C.U.M
I contacted S.C.U.M‘s press people last year before Christmas, asking for some press material about them. And they never got back to me. They didn’t have to really, I can understand how PR folks love to pick and choose their publications. Perhaps preserving some form of exclusivity. Maybe “too busy”. Such a shame. I can...
ULTERIOR – SEX WAR SEX CARS SEX
Just shut the fuck up and listen to this. Ulterior. Coming out of the industrial goth scene from the depths of London’s secret warehouse parties, Ulterior once again comes back into my radar. For some reason, I’ve connected them to Manchester – I don”t know, my memory’s abit hazy but either I have seen them...
