Author: Paper Champion
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Gallery: Zeal & Ardor, Heriot – Colchester Arts Centre, 6/11/2022
Two incredibly busy nights at Colchester Arts Centre in a week! Zeal & Ardor performed with a cut down band due to illness but they more than made up for it with a huge live sound and an incredibly lively set for a Sunday evening.
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Review/Gallery: Pussy Riot, Genn – Colchester Arts Centre, 01/11/2022
There are sold out gigs and then there are properly sold out gigs. This one sold out and then sold out twice more on the day itself and it’s heaving in there. So much so that opening band Genn say they often have to ask people to come forward – not tonight, the venue is…
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Biffy Clyro, De Staat – Various Scandinavian Cities
Back when I was in my first year of university, armed with a young person’s railcard and and a love of music, I used to pick a run of dates on any band I enjoyed’s tour and just hop from city to city, checking out the local record shops and then watching the gig in…
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Rad Pitt – Pitt Happens EP
Pitt Happens sees a change in vocalist, with Nick Smith tagging out and giving Reece Boulton a shot in the ring. Given the runtimes of Rad Pitt‘s previous three albums, Pit Happens being a four track EP seems a bit odd. The whole EP weighs in at eight minutes, fifty four seconds, more than a…
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Knower – Heaven, 02/09/2022
In the lead-up to this gig I had a mild fear that it may be a bit quiet; Knower had posted a video on social media to advertise the gig saying ticket sales had been poor. Which maybe shouldn’t be that unexpected at the minute with rail strikes and other such things making travel to…
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Gallery: Thumper, Bridget, Pure Trash – Three Wise Monkeys, 25/08/2022
Some excellent music from Thumper as they warm up for Reading and Leeds festivals. I hadn’t given them much of a listen before the gig but they sound incredible live. Despite the energetic performance they somehow manage to maintain stunning four part vocal harmonies at times.
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Roy Ayres Ubiquity – Colchester Arts Centre, 16/08/2022
A sold out night at Colchester Arts Centre – incredible musicianship and an excellent crowd for it!
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ArcTanGent 2022 – 10 to look out for
Sugar Horse – Wednesday, Elephant in the Bar RoomOne of the bands I discovered at a previous ArcTanGent, Sugar Horse are a loud mix of riffs and delay-laden post-rock moments. They’ve released a lot of music since then so will no doubt be bringing plenty of new material to play at the festival. Wear ear…
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Hear This: Collars – Rabbit Heart
Collars are one of those bands who are really gunning for it as far as gigging is concerned at the minute across most of East Anglia (well, and the rest of the country) – see them and you’ll understand why crowds can’t get enough of them; their performances are energetic, their setup is unorthodox, their…
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