Reviews
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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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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 Final Programme (1973) – National Film Theatre 10/8/10
I was hugely impressed with the Flipside for tracking down a print (however faded and scratchy) of this true 70’s…
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Sharks – The Future Is Unwritten
‘Fallen On Deaf Ears’ still electrifies to this day, fully realising all that promise it exuded from the get-go. Similarly,…
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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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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…
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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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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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