Category: Reviews
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Glastonbury 2022: Saturday
Saturday certainly has the potential to be the longest day of the festival – there isn’t much time to sleep given that, for me, Friday’s late finish meant getting to bed around 3:30am and the first band of the day starts at 11:30 (that doesn’t sound too bad but that means getting out of bed…
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Glastonbury 2022: Friday
There’s always a band who’s trajectory seems to shoot directly upwards, who festival organisers think will be at a particular level when booking the lineup but end up far surpassing that, with crowds on a scale that no one expected six months ago. That band this year may well be Wet Leg. Getting to The…
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Glastonbury 2022: Wednesday/Thursday
While there were obviously much more pressing issues in the world, Glastonbury haven’t really had the best of luck in celebrating their 50th anniversary. In 2020 they were one of the first festivals to cancel (donating their barn full of hand sanitiser and other medical supplies already purchased to the NHS in the process –…
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Review: William Basinski – Colchester Arts Centre – 15th June 2022
I’ll be honest, until the day before this gig I wasn’t aware of the music of William Basinski. I was recommended to this gig by local musician bÖsch, which I can be certain means it’s going to be an interesting night of music. For an ambient musician I was sort of surprised by the way…
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Review/Gallery: Musicircus Colchester
I’d love to be able to write reviews about the artists performing at Musicircus but I have two problems stopping me. One: there wasn’t really anything that said who each artist was and Two: it was really difficult to hear a lot of it. To it’s merit, Musicircus showed just how much music there is…
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Hear This: Frazer Merrick – Hidden Sounds of Play
An interesting piece of music, alongside a commentary, Hidden Sounds of Play is an exploration of the rythmns created by the electromagnetic noise released by the various devices, machines and lights of Southend-on-Sea. The sounds created are varied and interesting but what makes this such a compelling piece is knowing that all of these “sounds”,…
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Gallery: Rad Pitt – Face Down, Coda, 27/05/2022
Some photos of Rad Pitt playing Face Down at Coda in Colchester.
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Review: Geoff Lawrence – Similar Life
Knowing Geoff’s music from bands like Slugworth and Vince Petchy, with their jittery guitar lines and jumpy nature, Similar Life certainly starts at the opposite end of the musical spectrum. Lush piano sits upon a gentle wall of reverb, the harsh reality of lockdown for younger people told by his daughter Effie (of Anorak Patch)…
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Gallery: Mclusky, Nothingheads – The Lexington, 20/05/2022
A few photos from a great Mclusky gig over at The Lexington. Support from Nothingheads.
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Review: Eat Your Own Head – Neck-Deep In The Blyth
It’s been great to see Eat Your Own Head grow and grow. They’ve become a regular appearance at math-rock/post-rock (and other such genre nights) across the country over the last year or so, putting out new music on the regular, eventually culminating in this, Neck Deep In The Blyth, put out on their own label,…
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