Blog: Bad Fotography

Paris XY

Jun 17, 8:20pm Bad Fotography

Take the dark side of Trentemoller, Gui Borrato and Apparat and add the smoky, sultry voice of Alice Smith doing it in the vein of The Knife and you get Paris XY. I first met James Orvis, the other half of Paris XY, when I was dj-ing at Release Yourself a few months back. He was telling me about the DIY parties they've been organising and I thought it sounded pretty neat. That's how Paris XY grew and evolved - tired of getting fucked around and fobbed off by shitty promoters, Alice and James decided to do things their way [...]

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NO CEREMONY/// – HURTLOVE

May 10, 11:32am Bad Fotography

I haven't been myself lately at all. The past few weeks and months have been a blur, everything moving with such great speeds that the only thing constant is the residue of space they leave behind - a strange, fulfilling emptiness. I have been waking up every morning at precisely 7:43am "We live in an age of many stimulations. If you are focused you are harder to reach. If you are distracted, you are available." I am distracted. I am available. The constant struggle to justify, validify, emphasize. Nevermind the external distractions - emotion is the stimulation. Passion - heady [...]

• NO CEREMONY/// - HURTLOVE
• NO CEREMONY/// - HURTLOVE (REMIXED)

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Artist:	NO CEREMONY///
Title:	HURTLOVE
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	NO CEREMONY///
Title:	HURTLOVE (REMIXED)
File Name:	SoundCloud

FREE GIVEAWAY: BEATS BY DR DRE HEADPHONES

May 10, 5:00am Bad Fotography

It's been awhile since this blog did a giveaway. As a blog serious about music, we are serious about sound quality. It means being able to listen to our favorite bands and producers with absolute clarity. We're giving away 1 Beats by Dr Dre Solo HD headphones to one lucky reader so you can enjoy the music you hear on this blog (and elsewhere) in high definition. Titanium coated driver technology means crisper sound and deeper beats, its scratch resistant and comes with a travel storage case too. These headphones are worth more than £200. This competition is a Littlewoods [...]

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Everything Unexpected Happened at Live At Leeds 2013

May 6, 8:05pm Bad Fotography

There is a reason for the title of this post. Everything unexpected DID happen at Live At Leeds 2013. Let me break it down for you: I couldn't go to work on Friday. Someone in the office gave me a nasty bastard chest and sinus infection. By the time Saturday rolled in, I was still so ropey I nearly cancelled my attendance for the festival. Regardless, turn up I did, and with my sidekick Sophie and her friend Simon, we negotiated the thick crowd queuing outside Leeds City Museum, got our wristbands and proceeded to plan who to see.  I have [...]

• Findlay Music - Findlay – Off & On (FREE DOWNLOAD in description)
• _MØ_ - Pilgrim

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Artist:	Findlay Music
Title:	Findlay – Off & On (FREE DOWNLOAD in description)
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	_MØ_
Title:	Pilgrim
File Name:	SoundCloud

Live At Leeds 2013: What To Expect

Apr 19, 2:35am Bad Fotography

So we're pretty excited about Live At Leeds hitting the city come May 3rd-6th this year. And I'll tell you why. 1) Savages. are. playing. Enough said. 2) Awesome venues across Leeds, favorites are the now newly refurbished Nation of Shopkeepers. Brudenell is always alot of fun and then there's Trinity Church, next to the newly opened shopping area Trinity Leeds. 3) Over a 100 bands including Savages (to re-iterate point no. 1) also Menace Beach whom I've always been meaning to catch: [Menace Beach - Drop Outs] 4) MUST, the band with probably the most unsearchable band name on Google [...]

• WITCH HUNT - Crawl

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Artist:	WITCH HUNT
Title:	Crawl
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Rock

SAVAGES – Shut Up (New Video)

Apr 18, 1:25pm Bad Fotography

Mind = blown. Hear the album version of Shut Up from Savages upcoming debut full length  Silence Yourself (out May 6th) via this new video Shut Up by grammy nominated director Giorgio Testi, presented by Dazed Digital.

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Marcel Fengler (Ostgut Ton / Berghain)

Apr 11, 10:05am Bad Fotography

I have always been fascinated, obsessed almost dependent on german techno -  especially the kind that almost visualizes the grittiness of urban landscape and how man reacts, adapts, interacts with his surroundings. This urban landscape, man-made, concrete and steel crevices in between buildings and walls pulsating with the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of modern living. I'm thinking specifically Berlin. Specifically. Why Berlin? I have never been there though it is a dream. In many ways, I can draw parallels with my love for Leeds with Berlin. At face-value, Leeds may not be the tech/art/economic force that Berlin is. But if you [...]

• Marcel Fengler - OstgutTon
• Marcel Fengler - Podcast Marcel Fengler mnml ssgs 320kbps
• Marcel Fengler - Podcast RA Marcel Fengler

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Artist:	Marcel Fengler
Title:	OstgutTon
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	Marcel Fengler
Title:	Podcast Marcel Fengler mnml ssgs 320kbps
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	Marcel Fengler
Title:	Podcast RA Marcel Fengler
File Name:	SoundCloud

Brilliant Colors, Wharf Chambers, 8th April 2013, Leeds

Apr 8, 7:38pm Bad Fotography

Typing this as I wolf down the microwaved leftover spag bol I made last night. Who'd have thought that the band I wrote about 3 years ago would play a gig in Leeds tonight??? I must say it is quite unfortunate that Margaret Thatcher happened to pass away on the night Brilliant Colors were playing. [Brilliant Colors - English Cities] The place was packed like NYE was here early, the gig was made free entry, 2 bands that I have been meaning to catch live pulled out at the very last minute (ie. Menace Beach (featuring members from other awesome Leeds bands [...]

• Brilliant Colors - Value Lines
• MENACE BEACH - TASTES LIKE MEDICINE

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Artist:	Brilliant Colors
Title:	Value Lines
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Pop
Year:	2011

Artist:	MENACE BEACH
Title:	TASTES LIKE MEDICINE
File Name:	SoundCloud

Exclusive Preview: Phlegm @ Canal Mills, Leeds

Apr 4, 11:57am Bad Fotography

So we got invited to the exclusive preview of world renowned muralist Phlegm's new murals that have just been completed at Canal Mills. What better person to review this than the amazing Joy G, aka Morbid (also going  by the moniker Cbloxx.) As the art director for Leeds' independent film festival No/Gloss, an established commissioned graffiti artist herself and a long time fellow Bad Fotography collaborator, she gives us the lowdown of what went on in that amazing artspace, in her point of view: -- On hearing that fellow Yorkshire man Phlegm would be returning to the land of Steel and Wool for [...]

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Maya Jane Coles

Mar 22, 12:05pm Bad Fotography

Just as I thought it was going to be a quiet Easter weekend, we got this through the inbox: Maya Jane Coles. In Leeds. With Joy Orbison. Fuck. Yeah I know she's played in Leeds many times but I have never got the opportunity to go see her. Finally, the time has come. For those of you who are not aware, I have been covering Maya's rise to fame since her days in She Is Danger with Lena Cullen and her dubstep side project Nocturnal Sunshine.  Can't believe so much has changed so quickly. Also, appearing on the covers of Mixmag and DJMag, in [...]

• LB - Superstitious Heart
• Maya Jane Coles - Little One

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Artist:	LB
Title:	Superstitious Heart
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Deep\ House\ Club
Year:	2013

Artist:	Maya Jane Coles
Title:	Little One
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	House
Year:	2012

Avoiding Tequila Shots, Rocking Out To Black Moth and Bringing Disco Back with Galaxians at British Wildlife Festival

Mar 3, 1:00pm Bad Fotography

Leeds definitely knows how to party. Friday and Saturday was British Wildlife Festival at The Brudenell Social Club - See more at: http://www.bad-fotography.co.u k/#sthash.xpoSk4U0.dpuf

• blackmoth - Chicken Shit
• Galaxians - FIRE & MAGIC digital master

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Artist:	blackmoth
Title:	Chicken Shit
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Rock

Artist:	Galaxians
Title:	FIRE & MAGIC digital master
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Paradise Garage

Tombed Visions Records

Mar 1, 5:30am Bad Fotography

I haven't wrote in awhile and there's a reason for that. The countless stream of useless, non-personalised emails from PR agencies who should know better than to send me badly written presspacks about artists that are totally not relevant to this blog, had me so underwhelmed and uninspired that I have turned my attention to another project. There is only so much you can take when everyday you open your inbox and its all just disappointment after disappointment eating up the storage limit. Quoting Andy Inglis, "There's already too much bad music". We don't need more of them. Saying that, [...]

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Isaac Tichauer – I Forgive You

Jan 2, 12:08pm Bad Fotography

If you're like me and still not over the party mood yet, then this first post of the year is going to get you grooving nicely. Isaac Tichauer's I Forgive You released at the end of last year on the French Express imprint is the perfect soundtrack to accompany you while shake off the post festivities come down. Deep moog-ed out bassline and chopped up melodic vocals start your journey, the sparkling cymbals and toms bring in the color. You then get led to the party when the piano synth-stabs make their appearance, everything comes beautifully together. I’m a sucker [...]

• ISAAC TICHAUER - Doing What I Got
• ISAAC TICHAUER - I Forgive You

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Artist:	ISAAC TICHAUER
Title:	Doing What I Got
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	House

Artist:	ISAAC TICHAUER
Title:	I Forgive You
File Name:	SoundCloud
Year:	2012

In Photos: The Soft Moon x Dracula Lewis Live, Brudenell Social Club, 25th Nov 2012

Nov 26, 2012, 7:10am Bad Fotography

Went to catch The Soft Moon at Brudenell Social Club yesterday despite my bangin sore throat induced by wisdom tooth pain and the fact that the side of my face was swollen as heck. Waited in the rain for half an hour for the cab to arrive and when I finally got there, thinking I was late, I was quite disappointed to see that the venue wasn't packed out. The excuse that it's a Sunday night just doesn't cut it. This is THE SOFT MOON we are talking about here - probably the best band of our time that captures that [...]

• DRACULA LEWIS - U$E YOUR ILLU$ION$ {skit}
• The Soft Moon - Insides
• The Soft Moon - When it's Over

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Artist:	DRACULA LEWIS
Title:	U$E YOUR ILLU$ION$ {skit}
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	The Soft Moon
Title:	Insides
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	The Soft Moon
Title:	When it's Over
File Name:	SoundCloud

In Photos: The Voyeurist, O Children, LIVE, Leeds 24th Oct 2012

Oct 26, 2012, 11:24am Bad Fotography

O Children and The Voyeurist were playing at Oporto on Wednesday night and we thought we'd pay them a visit. Mid-week gigs is always a weird one, you just don't know what the turn out is going to be like on a school night. And that night felt slightly "off" too - there was a kind of tension in the air, and even as I walked to Friends of Ham for some pre-show drinks, I felt the tightness in the air choke me. A few drinks and a platter of divine cured meat and cheese later, I was sorted and [...]

• O. Children - PT Cruiser
• O. Children - Yours For You

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Artist:	O. Children
Title:	PT Cruiser
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Rock

Artist:	O. Children
Title:	Yours For You
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Rock

Vuvuvultures

Oct 23, 2012, 3:30pm Bad Fotography

The nouveau goth movement was already in full swing before I've even realised the full extent of it. As I sit here going through Savages' facebook photo album, making plans for the show with O Children and The Voyeurist tomorrow and listening to Vuvuvultures, I cannot help but feel a sense of, relief. Relief in the sense that these upcoming bands have restored my faith in British guitar music, and most importantly, in the music of our generation. Relief  but also wonder. I'm thinking, why is it always the bands and artists that explore the darker realms of life and [...]

• Vuvuvultures - I'll Cut You (Adam Nicholas Remix)
• Vuvuvultures - Pills Week
• Vuvuvultures - Safe Skin

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Artist:	Vuvuvultures
Title:	I'll Cut You (Adam Nicholas Remix)
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Chilled

Artist:	Vuvuvultures
Title:	Pills Week
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	VVV

Artist:	Vuvuvultures
Title:	Safe Skin
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	VVV

Death Rattle – He&I EP

Oct 21, 2012, 5:05pm Bad Fotography

Seriously vibing hard to my preview of Death Rattle's ep, He&I, released 15th October by Belgian label, Frontal Noize. Its the perfect sound to accompany a lonely, foggy autumn night in. Don't let the new wave-y upbeat tempo of Fixer fool you into a dance party, this is dark, melancholic electronic music for the heartbroken and misunderstood. Also, tracks like Mouse Chorus has got that lovely Fever Ray touch, its a nice feeling I don't want to shake off. [Death Rattle - Fixer] But it's Sorry For Your Loss that really wins it for me and it's the last song on the [...]

• Death Rattle - Do As You Please
• Death Rattle - Fixer

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Artist:	Death Rattle
Title:	Do As You Please
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Electronic
Year:	2012

Artist:	Death Rattle
Title:	Fixer
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Electronic
Year:	2012

Linea Aspera

Oct 19, 2012, 9:56am Bad Fotography

Winter is coming and I'm craving for cold, grim sounds, I can't help it. The synth-heavy darkwave duo that is Linea Aspera has got me completely spellbound. They're on the more catchier spectrum of darkwave than the icy monotone no-disco of coldwave. It's dancier, and it's dark and it makes you feel like you're in some underground leather party in a basement somewhere, dancing, to them. But don't loose yourself too easily just yet - the anti-everything lyrics are razor-sharp and cuts deep: [Linea Aspera - Eviction] [Linea Aspera - Hinterland] [Linea Aspera - Antipodean Tedium] Antipodean Tedium by Linea Aspera Buy [...]

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La Fete Triste

Oct 16, 2012, 11:28am Bad Fotography

Based in Hamburg, La Fete Triste create their own brand of post punk and coldwave the way it should be done: with real instruments recorded on an 8-track, keeping things analog, organic and DIY. The end result is a purity of sound that is completely unmatched, at least not in the perspective of today's modern day bands and the temptation of computing technology for music production within easy reach. Mostly their songs are icy and sharp, but they've also taken a few pages out of the early new wave / synth wave movements - lots of reverb, bass heavy and [...]

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Lebanon Hanover

Oct 15, 2012, 3:28pm Bad Fotography

Lebanon Hanover - previously featured in passing in this post, now a great upcoming band, still unsigned. Doing the dark / coldwave revival thing and doing it very well. Lebanon Hanover is the brainchild of Larissa Iceglass and William Maybelline. It's the sound of Berlin and Sunderland synthesized into minimal gloom-disco. As a person who counts Asylum Party and Norma Loy in his favourite bands list, Lebanon Hanover becomes an obvious love object. Some excellent cold / darkwave stuff: [Neon - Lobotomy (1981)] [Prothese - Tumours] The World Is Getting Colder 123 was released earlier this year, 11 tracks of pure [...]

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