
News: New Manchester area venue, The Loom, set to open in November
Reading time: 3 minutesReaders might recall an article I wrote earlier in the year about this new venue, which is in my hometown of Oldham (population around 250,000),
Reading time: 3 minutesReaders might recall an article I wrote earlier in the year about this new venue, which is in my hometown of Oldham (population around 250,000),
Reading time: 2 minutesThere’s dystopian and then there’s DYSTOPIAN. Just about everything Swedish industrial post-punkers The Below writes and records can be safely lodged in the second category.
Reading time: < 1 minuteI’m not a swimmer and I stay as far away as possible from water but Siri Neel’s take on it is quite different. She says
Reading time: 2 minutesCame across this one (for which unfortunately we only have time for the title track tonight) while researching another artist on the Swedish Lamour label
Reading time: 2 minutesThere are numerous reasons I selected this track. Firstly it brings together two artists we’ve featured previously but not often enough given their status, namely
Reading time: 2 minutesBlur were happy to content themselves with ‘Parklife’ but Martin Inghardt takes his observations several stages further with ‘Cock life’, which is the literal translation
Reading time: 2 minutesWe’ve had some unusual artist backgrounds recently; mainly academics moonlighting as musicians (pretty well, I should add) but never in my wildest dreams did I