Blog: Dots & Dashes

Bubbling away in the cavernous doldrums beneath the Roundhouse where tonight the insufferable Dropkick Murphys bumble along incomprehensibly to fiddles and punk that's about as authentic as most 'Irish pubs' are Peckham's Beaty Heart , who've voyaged north of the Thames to headline the somewhat insipidly denominated 'Sonic' night of this year's Roundhouse Rising festival. They're preceded however by a quite demented half hour from analogue gear enthusiasts CLOUT! who sound, for the most part, like Seb Rochford rewiring every psychotic vision within the discography of Devo to hugely dramatic effect. Validating their stated claim under manifesto [...]