“1MU arrives in Blackpool, and immediately becomes immersed in punk… and Covid?“
A brief sojourn into the Rebellion fringes, featuring Subalternos, Hacksaw, and Knuckleheadz.
Radio: 16 September 2024
Recorded for CAMP Radio in Aulus-les-bains, France
Convict Class – Wank Sock (Generation Of Discontent, self-released)
David Liebe Hart – O’er Waiting Harp Strings Of The Mind (Peace & Harmony, self-released)
A’Bear – Glammy Racket (Glammy Racket, self-released)
Sonny E. – Microdot Rock (single, self-released)
Mohammad Syfkhan – I Adore These Eyes (I Am Kurdish, Nyahh Records)
Tudor Acid – Track Number 7 (Discarded Shadows, self-released)
Melt-Banana – Puzzle (3+5, A-Zap Records)
Beth Anderson – Ocean Motion Mildew Mind (I Can’t Stand It, Finders Keepers Records)
K. Yoshimatsu – Violet (Fossil Cocoon: The Music Of K. Yoshimatsu, Phantom Limb)
Carol Hodge – Queen of Fitting In (EffortLess InSecurity, Midnight Stamp Records)
The Standing Stones featuring Alasdair Roberts – Twa Brothers Radio Edit (single, L-13 Light Industrial Recordings)
Mordant Music – Mordant Has The Right To Children (KPMM – 20 Signs You Have a Thyroid Problem, Castles In Space)
John Callaghan – Forgive Yourself (Forgiveness EP, self-released)
Sealionwoman – Charcoal (Nothing Will Grow In The Soil, The state51 Conspiracy)
Knuckleheadz – Till The End (single, Annoize!)
A Tale of Two Sweets: Rebellion and Beyond
“In the first of 1MU’s Rebellion write-ups, he contemplates the curious, complicated history of glam-rock legends Sweet. Or is that The Sweet?“
The messy, messy tangled web that is the purveyors of Blockbusters and Ballroom Blitzes.
Radio: 19 August 2024
Recorded for CAMP Radio in Aulus-les-bains, France
The 180Gs – Moonlight on Vermont (Trout Mask Replica Replica, self-released)
Dame Area – Striscia (Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area, Mannequin Records/Humo Internacional)
Loula Yorke – a beach of little stones (speak, thou vast and venerable head, quiet details)
Deep Cabaret – We Are All Lichen (How Terribly Strange : DC Un, self-released)
Mope Grooves – pieces of god (Box Of Dark Roses, Night School Records)
Show Me The Body – Creep (feat. B L A C K I E) (CORPUS II EP I, Corpus)
Ghost Dubs – The Regulator (Damaged, Pressure)
Deaf Devils – Tonite (Boom EP, Ghost Highway Recordings)
Connor D’Netto x Yvette Ofa Agapow – Material IV – dopamine deficit (Material, Room40)
DJ smallcock – Let it all out (Dont call it a comedown, dualpLOVER)
JPEGMAFIA – Exmilitary (I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU, self-released)
Chrystabell & David Lynch – The Answers to The Questions (Cellophane Memories, Sacred Bones Records)
Alex Reed – Hit ‘Em Dreamgirl (Seeming remix) (Hit ‘Em Dreamgrl — REMASTERED / REMIXED / B-SIDED, self-released)
Frank Sidebottom – Hey Jude (Live, The International Club, Manchester, 27 February 1988) (Little Box of Bobbins: Frank’s Fantastic Anthology 1985-1993, Cherry Red Records)
Brum The Noise – Supersonic Festival 2024 preview
“Supersonic is widely regarded as one of the UK’s top small festivals. In Spite will be there…“
A preview of the Birmingham experimental music festival, which I will be covering in due course.