Year: 2015
- Live
The Eyelids/ Po-Lice, Clipper Bar, Camborne, 22/04/2011
An exercise in exothermic reactions on an unseasonably warm Good Friday. Openers, Po-Lice from Taunton, have a kind of ramshackle…
Read More » - Indie
Vivian Girls – Share The Joy (album, Polyvinyl)
Bookended by two of their most expansive tracks, the third album from the Brooklyn trio sees them stretching the boundaries…
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Another Tramadol Night: Doug Stanhope – The Forum, Nottingham – 5/4/11
My compadre and I, both suffering from debilitating back pain, took the questionable decision to drop 100mg of Tramadol each…
Read More » - Punk
The Crassical Collection: Christ The Album – Crass
‘Your life’s reduced to nothing but an empty media game / Big Brother ain’t watching you, mate, you’re fucking watching…
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The Skuzzies – The Skuzzies (album, Easy Action)
The long-awaited debut album from Astoria/Babyshambles Riot veterans the Skuzzies is a largely fat-free feast, which could, perhaps fittingly, have…
Read More » - Cinema
Final Performance
The American actor Barry Brown began his career at the age of five. At 19, he was Emmy-nominated for playing…
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Parting Gifts – Strychnine Dandelion (LP, In The Red)
The debut album from Nashville duo Coco Hames and the prolific Greg Cartwright, augmented by friends the Ettes has its…
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Bo Ningen – Bo Ningen (album, Stolen)
By turns visceral and ambient, Bo Ningen’s [trans: ‘Stick Men’] eponymous debut represents a remarkably accomplished first outing for this…
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Thee Spivs – Taped Up (album, Damaged Goods)
Tearing in like a switchblade through the fecal velour of a cinema seat comes the debut album from this much…
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FocusOn: Max Galli
Max Galli was born in Rome in 1969, right in the middle of the 'space age', the oldest of two…
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Or Glory: 21st Century Rockers by Horst A. Friedrichs
I’m always up for a challenge. Do anything, I will. Over-familiar photos from the 60s? Check. Films so obscure even…
Read More » - Beats
Tupac: A ‘Thug’ Afterlife
Tupac: Not more than hardly ... There's a whole mess of us stuck here; Elvis Presley, Jim Morrisson, Shergar, some…
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