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Lola Colt; Evolving and Exploring.
Photo by Ruth Nitkiewicz.Described by thevpme.com as sounding like 'Sergio Leone meets the Velvet Underground covering Johnny Cash with Patti Smith and Siouxsie Sioux on vocals' six piece band Lola...
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In Evil Hour-Intelligent Ferocity.
Photo by Helen Templeton.(Just so you know this interview contains swearing.) A few weeks ago a friend of mine posted 'Predators' by North East punk band In Evil Hour; an intelligent, ferocious...
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Charles Hayward: still exploring, still committed.
Photo by Lewis Hayward.When I mentioned on Facebook to a couple of musicians I know that I was hoping to interview influential musician Charles Hayward one of them responded that they had seen him...
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Selvhenter; Review of Frk. B. Fricka/Motions of Large Bodies.
Photo by Yvonne Forster.One of the most irritating people I regularly experience is a prominent Radio 5 football commentator who, as far as I know, has never played pro football or refereed but seems...
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Big Joanie: Black Feminist DIY Punk.
Photo by Iona Dee.London based Big Joanie were formed in 2013 and is composed of Chardine on drums/vox, Kiera on bass/vox and Steph on guitar/vox. Citing influences as diverse as X-Ray Spex, Nirvana...
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Sometimes on those wandering musical journeys through the internet you come acrossunexpected gems-you can't quite remember how you got there but you're glad you did! Last summer on one such journey I...
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Jane Weaver: Transformations.
Photo by Rebecca Lupton.Jane Weaver released her first solo album 'Like an Aspen Leaf' in 2002 and her most recent, 'The Silver Globe' in 2014. In all that time and since, as well as the normal stuff...
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Matka Ajan Rannoille by Jesufaglar.
Courtesy of Luova RecordsA few years ago, probably with one eye on the new millennium, there was a fad for burying cultural artefacts representing society in time-capsules for future generations to...
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The Oscillation-Psychedelic Post Punk?
Photo by Antonio Curcetti.It's been about a year since The Oscillation played London and roughly two and a half years since their last album 'From Tomorrow' so I was excited and intrigued by their...
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Peculiar Protest for Peculiar Times.
Image by Yvonne Forster.It was not exactly Eddie Izzard's 27 marathons in 27 days but I'm now in my 50s and three gigs in five days, including two trips to London felt like a bit of a big ask, two...
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Mirror by Gnod; Unflinching Honesty.
Image by Yvonne Forster.The first album I have by Gnod is Chaudelande from 2013 bought after hearing the track Tron being played by a DJ at Corica Studios one night in late 2014 or early 2015, it's an...
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Cathy Lucas, Vanishing Twin and Orlando.
Photo by Kathy Coleman.Orlando is the current musical identity/project of multi instrumentalist Cathy Lucas who adopted the name from a Virginia Woolf novel about a gender-bending dreamer who lives for...
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Gnod Live 9-4-16.
Image by Yvonne Forster.The Gnod gig at The Lexington was on a Saturday so I had a bit of spare time in that London and ended up in the National Portrait Gallery at an exhibition of Leon Golub's work...
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Post Modern Protest.
Image by tim forster based on IWW 'Pyramid of Capitalist System' (1911) Sometimes gigs are like the mythological London bus none for a while then several at once-in this case three and all at The...
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Cultural Resources and the Construction of Self.
Image by Yvonne Forster.One of the aspects of colonialism that psychiatrist Frantz Fallon pointed out was that the colonizing was not just the occupation of a territory and the reordering of that...
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The Pop Group; The Boys Whose Head Exploded.OK so this first paragraph is somewhere between reassurance for me, and confession to you. The Pop Group were around from 1977 until 1981 (1) and completely...
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The Bogquake Tapes: Bogquake.
Image courtesy of HUM.According to their bandcamp page Harmonic Union Music was set up to 'hunt down and expose the lost sounds of Hookland’s musical pioneers'. I didn't know where Hookland is so...
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Valentina Magaletti; Renaissance Woman.
Photo by Valeria Lopez.Drummer and multi-instrumentalists Valentina Magaletti is possibly best known as both the drummer of psych band The Oscillation and for her work with Tom Relleen as experimental...
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Tense Nature by Brian Case.(Hands in the Dark Records)
Photo by Zoran Orlic .'Tense Nature' is the new album by Disappears front man Brian Case. Disappears have been described as Krautrock but their albums have such a sense of moving on, seem so distinct...
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Petrol Girls: Intelligent, Articulate, Feminist.
Image courtesy of Petrol Girls.It must be about ten years since I regularly went to see punk gigs, that was in the days of Adequate 7, The Filaments and Five Knuckle, they split up and the next wave of...
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