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I made this playlist a while back, and the post has been languishing in the drafts for a while, so…
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So here are some much more recent gig pictures- from this week in fact. Local label M8s Records held an…
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A couple of years ago my friend Steve Larder’s band Moloch did a split LP and tour with American grindcore…
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I had to put a Hüsker Dü song in this list, as they are one of my all-time favourite bands,…
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So here’s my playlist from Croatia- it goes with the zine I wrote about the trip.
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I would describe this as essentially a Bond theme about a Siamese cat. I’m a big fan of Syd Barrett,…
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I debated which Codeine song to use, the competition was strong. Codeine are often described as Slowcore. Slow songs in…
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When I wrote the 50 Things About Me entry a little while ago, I started creating a playlist of 50…
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Anyway, in July Sunn O))) toured the UK, and I couldn’t go because I was committed to working long hours…
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Here’s a Spotify playlist I made while I was in Japan, of Japanese artists and music that matched my mood…
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A little while ago, there was a thing on Twitter where people used the #indieamnesty tag to tell funny or embarrassing…
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My three top new albums this year have all been by female solo artists, two of whom are Welsh, Cate…
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I haven’t felt very festive lately. More winter solstice, fallow time of the year kind of feeling. Krokodill- Jóhann…
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Last week I took some promo shots of my friends Kirsty and Aaron’s band Actual Crimes. They recently became a…
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My zine, Fanzine Ynfytyn, is named after a song by Welsh language post-punk band Datblygu (“Develop”). The name could be…
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A few weeks ago I went to see Sleater-Kinney, one of my favourite bands, at the Roundhouse. They had been…
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1) Continental Shelf- Viet Cong One off the radio at work. I’m not that fussed about the whole album, but…
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I was really broke for most of 2014. I didn’t get to go to many bigger gigs, but I did…
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Long time, no see. I’ve been without a computer recently. Now it’s been fixed, I’ve got a bit of a…
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My all-time top Finn Tukru, sent me some weird Finnish music videos from the past. (Don’t introduce me to any…
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Long time, no see. In the last week I started a new design job, had some major dental work done,…
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Last night I went to see my friends Frozy play with Dog Legs and Los Cripis. Los Cripis are from…
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More like wake and talk and work and talk and work lately. I’ve been working teaching on a residential course…
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The other night I went to see BARR aka Brendan Fowler at Power Lunches. I had pretty much forgotten about…
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I’ve been enjoying hermitting recently. I’ve gone out and done the odd thing and for work, but I’ve been happy…
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Some people I know put on a byo gig on Friday at the old fire station in Stoke Newington. It…
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Last week I went to a How To Be a Cult Leader show. My friend Mel was doing the visuals with…
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The other night I went to see a Hawk and a Hacksaw at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. My friend Fliss…
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Last weekend I went to a house gig in South London. These things seem to be few and far between…
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The other weekend I went to visit Erika and her partner at their beautiful house. I always have a nice…
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Februrary has been a deeply weird and confusing month, for various reasons. I had to go to hospital with gastritis…
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My friend Mel put on a space-themed night at Power Lunches with some other students from her MA course. I…
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I wrote before about going to a gig at Neu Gallery run by Greek artist Stefanos Rokos. I returned the…
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I also went to Field Day this year. It was the first Saturday I had off work in about 3…
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The gallery has some kind of connection with a hotel, and they held another event there the following night, with…
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I recently received my grandad’s stereo. He’s 89 and has moved into an old people’s home, and said he didn’t…
