- Garage
Thee Hypnotics – Come Down Heavy (album, Situa)
Come Down Heavy is a behemoth of an album that presses down upon the senses like 20,000 leagues of heavy…
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The Crassical Collection: Penis Envy – Crass (Southern)
Despite the paucity of new Crass music emerging from Dial House, the group’s profile continued to grow as their gigging…
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The Crassical Collection: Stations of the Crass – Crass (Southern)
There were two main reasons why reactions by the music press were largely irrelevant to Crass. Firstly, they had little…
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The Crassical Collection: The Feeding of the 5000 – Crass
In terms of punk rock’s political legacy, it’s difficult to overstate the primacy of Crass. Whereas the class of ’76…
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Flats: Kick It ‘Til It Breaks
With two blistering EPs and their eardrum shredding new single ‘Never Again’ behind them, Flats have established the most credible…
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Mick Farren: Front Line Shaman
Mick Farren has been many things in his time; author, activist, agent provocateur, anarchist... and that’s just getting warmed up…
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Steve Ignorant: Between Courses at the Last Supper
For Crass in general, and former frontman Steve Ignorant in particular, it’s been all go just recently. Aside from the…
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Loveland – Order To Love (album, Groovie Records)
The newly minted band are led by the eponymous Lana, late of the Fuzztones, whose polymath talents are revealed to…
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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…
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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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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…
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