I missed last month's S.C.U.M gig at Retro Bar hosted by Fiction Non Fiction, but rumour has it that halfway through the set a young boy stood up on a chair at the back of the audience and shouted, "What a swizz! All this music is, is five kids aping Suicide and Throbbing Gristle's atmospherics without the songs, where's the entertainment value in that? It's all quite pointless." Those at the gig where visibly shocked by the incident. A few guys in eye makeup where later seen staring [...]
We love our home city of Brighton, really we do. Here on The Recommender, we mostly cover music from any of the global scene's around, but on occasion we have the chance to look no further than our pebble-covered shoreline to locate the buzz of exciting new music. And so it's with a slightly different edition of The Gig List today that we proudly bring you... THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL That buzz is currently at ear-splitting levels with the recent announcement of the line ups and dates of our annual new [...]
[Photos by Anna Ferraro ] The venerable UK indie label, Fierce Panda , threw a birthday bash to celebrate their fifteenth year of existence and a few of our favorite people from across the pond helped capture it for us. We're quite aware of the crowd The Walkmen can pull here Stateside, not to mention the recent buzz and allure of indie-darlings Hatcham Social , so we can only assume this show was as amazing as it looks. Thankfully the fine Anna Ferraro was there [...]
I really have to warn you - the music on this tape is not even up to the low standards we maintain on this blog :) But I had to post this cassette cause it's sort of African music by a Hawaiian band recorded in Papua New Guinea which I bought in the Oxfam shop in Swansea, Wales. It was too much of a mix of weirdness and the cover makes me laugh. Most of the tracks sound like they were knocked out on a cheap kid's synth at a wedding reception. But the tracks Wasara and African Typic are [...]
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