Dead Social Club. Dead Social Club are six-piece electronic indie band formed in South London in 2009. There's certainly a vaugue hint of a less doom laden Depeche Mode in the vocal delivery combined with a dash of 802s post punk, yet they manage to make it sound fresh and vital with big chourus's that stay on the right side of epic without ever sounding over blown. Their latest single "Stockholm" (below) is available as a pay what you like free download ( just [...]
Now that I have a great turntable and pre-amp, I've been visiting the archives to see which albums and singles deserve to be re-recorded and re-posted. Obviously, the soundtrack to Urgh! A Music War was one of the first on the list. These new recordings sound light-years better than my last attempt, and I highly recommended you download them even if you have an older copy I posted. I've talked about Urgh! several times over, so I'll keep the intro brief. It's an amazing document of a time period in music, when the punk [...]
Despite the fact that I live only half an hour away from Brighton, prior to this year I'd never been to The Great Escpae, the south coast's very own answer to SXSW. I have to admit it was a slightly surreal experience to be at a festival where there were real toilets (although admittedly not always sufficiently stocked with toilet paper!), somewhere warm to watch music in the evening as opposed to standing in the freezing cold and, for me, being able to sleep in my own bed at the end of it all! To be honest the music was [...]
Every revolution seems to have its resident poet and Punk was no exception. Looking like an elongated cartoon Bob Dylan, John Cooper Clarke was there from the very start, supporting the Sex Pistols and a raft of Manchester bands such as the Buzzcocks, The Fall and Joy Division. And just like many of the early Punks he also released his first single, the 'Innocents' EP, on an independent record label (Manchester's Rabid Records). His live act consisted of a cappella readings of his satirical but always funny poetry read at breakneck speed. By the time of his first [...]
Violet Youth From: Stockport, United Kingdom Well I'm very nearly at the end of the Glastonbury list and nestled neatly away at close to the bottom were Stockport's Violet Youth. They sound like the Arctic Monkeys if they'd been brought up in the shadow of the Stockport Viaduct with John Cooper Clarke on vocals. 'Carla's Song' could be their Dancefloor moment, the point at which they [...]
for some reason i found myself listening to this today. this being 802s for this comp known as c81. the rest of this post is exactly what i wrote when i posted this back in 08. c81 was compiled by nme journalist roy carr and rough trade pr dude christopher rose for the 5th anniversary of independent label movement in the uk and of course to show off rough trades wares. more info can be found here , via wikipedia. there's some real awesome stuff here, there are a few turds too. but of course what might be pure [...]
twin-wheeled existentialists steeped in the sterile excrements of a doomed democracy, whose post-nietzschean sensibilities reject the bovine gregariousness of a senile oligarchy whose god is below zero, whose hero is a dead boy…
(from http://www.kurzweilai.net/) Members of the public could form the backbone of powerful new mobile Internet networks by carrying wearable sensors, according to researchers from Queen's University Belfast. The novel sensors could create new ultra-high-bandwidth mobile Internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base stations. The engineers from Queen's Institute of Electronics, Communications and [...]
A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments. Top 3 gigs this week: Sunday 26th Sept: Bedroom Community presents The Whale Watching Tour: Nico Muhly , Ben Frost , Valgeir Sigurðsson , Sam Amidon @ National Concert Hall (€25, win tickets ) Thurs 23rd Sept: Arthur's Day - Various venues around the [...]
Pagan Wanderer Lu From: Cardiff/Bolton, United Kingdom Pagan Wanderer Lu is Andy Regan (born in Bolton) a one-man 'Indietronica' band originally formed in Aberystwyth but now based in Cardiff. As Pagan Wanderer Lu Andy, who also passes his time playing bass in Silence At Sea , has self released countless albums and EPs of world weary, witty ditties. He is a uniquely British, razor sharp commentator [...]
Poets write funny and interesting books now? Never would have thought it possible, so how nice it was for Simon Armitage to come along and break the mould. Gig is littered with shattered tales about youth and lost stardom, neatly woven together by the sounds and musical influences of the late-70's; whether it be the Undertones, Morrissey or whatever punk/post-punk guitar-mangalist that John
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by teepoo This week let's explore some oldies in a genre called spoken word. This could be anything from words spoken behind some jazz riffs to rappers and punk lyricists. Listen to these stories, some controversial others just angry. 1. Jack Kerouac- October in the Railroad Earth 2. Allen Ginsberg- Father Death Blues 3. William Burroughs and Kurt Kobain- The Priest, [...]
Filed under: News , UK Mike Joyce, once the drummer in the Smiths , has spoken to Spinner about how being in the massively influential band was "euphoric" but that now he gets almost the same buzz on a sunny spring day in Manchester. Speaking in advance of running a Jack Daniel's gig at Manchester's Band on the Wall venue on May 27 -- where he will help legendary poet John Cooper Clarke and a host of younger Smiths-influenced bands like the Whip, Answering Machine and [...]
One drink, home early, not staying out, want to take it easy tonight... it's just never going to bloody happen, is it. Pure fantasy. Last night's escapades mean that I had far too little sleep last night, and something of a hangover this morning. This puts me in no fucking mood to piss about with my cunting colleagues, who seem to have decided that answering the fucking phone is beneath them. Our receptionist is off today, which means that we all have to take turns answering the phone, but apparently 'taking turns' needs to be explained in really [...]
Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 135 Dear Friends, Welcome to the 135th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace . We now have 1565 friends! Recent blogs: Re-cycling food waste Indian Earthquake: Did it really kill? Money Must Go [...]
Short Circuit: Live at The Electric Circus isn't for those obsessed with studio mastery. Every band sounds ragged, raw, rugged, roaring, the notion of groove sod-off for cheap, fast thrills. Any compilation containing a Joy Division track - "At a Later Date" - this raw is reason for alarm on its own. When combined with cuts from The Fall , Buzzcocks , Drones , John Cooper Clarke and [...]
"There's no law that says you can't start your own country," Leicester told the Washington Post in 1964. Leicester Hemingway was like his brother in many ways, a writer, traveler and lover of the great outdoors, Leicester authored six books and many articles in addition to working as a newspaper reporter and boat builder. In 1953 he wrote 'The Sound of the Trumpet', based on his personal experience in Germany and France during World War 2, but his most famous novel is the biography 'My Brother, Ernest Hemingway' published in 1961, eight months after his [...]
Readers Wives Genre: Alternative / Indie / Pop From: Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland [...]
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