Liverpool Psychedelic Festival: Camp and Furnace, Liverpool 27-09-14
My head thrums, my feet smell and my hearing is several shades off normal and I only got in 6 hours ago, but I’m too excited to sleep much. Such is the lot of the roving psychedelic war correspondent....
View Article1537 vs. 2014
Welcome folks, welcome to the 1537 Enormodome for the world’s premier award ceremony*! A venue specifically constructed for this very purpose for me in the heart of a, mostly, extinct volcano in an...
View Article200 Feet Across
The camera shows us a darkened window in a grey metallic surface, strange ridges and indentations around it. It pulls back, showing others, identical in construction, they fill the screen. The screen...
View ArticleWhite Hills: An Interview
I love White Hills – you need to know that up front and deal with it. Fiercely independent, fiercely glamorous, intelligent and freewheeling, umm, just like me. I first fell for H-P1 in 2010, a...
View ArticleWhite Hills: Walks For Motorists, Review
Lead the way … Lead the way … Lead the way … When I was a teenager I always dreamed of this moment, being able to wrap my ears around a favourite band’s new LP before it was released. I would always...
View ArticleWhite Hills Live: Islington Mill, Salford 09-04-15
NB: I know I start every live review I have ever penned by telling you how tired I am, so I’ll be careful not to this time. Christ, I’m tired!* But very very happy though. The cause of both states...
View ArticleIntermission
I’m struggling with 12-hour days this week, trying to get all my work done before pushing off on my holidays next week and so I’m really finding it hard to get any blogging done at all, in fact I’m...
View ArticleDon’t Be Afraid
Every so often, when I’m not fighting supervillains and the pressures of my secret identity grind me down, I like to go sit in the dark with some great, great sounds on, preferably something suitably...
View ArticleRadial Oscillating Capacitor Flux-a-Bastards
I’m gearing myself up for a new White Hills album soon by dipping into some of their past goodies. Well, basically any excuse for listening to space rock with the lights out is a thing to be seized....
View Article1537 vs. RSD 2018
Well, readers, it was my annual visit to a record shop yesterday; gosh, it seems to come around quicker every year. Just like last year I worked in the morning and ambled over to, the mighty Probe...
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