“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.
Keeley Forsyth – musical theatre
“When not acting on British telly, Keeley Forsyth is writing, recording and performing extraordinary neoclassical gothic ballads…”
A review of a performance that more than lived up to the label, “performance”.
Radio: 22 July 2024
Recorded for CAMP Radio in Aulus-les-bains, France
Snõõper – Company Car (Split 7″, Static Shock Records)
Dokaka – One by Four by Nine (single, self-released)
Beak> – Secrets (>>>>, Invada Records)
akisame girl – Eye to Eye (single, self-released)
Asociaal Kabaal – Lelijk (GEEN GEWELD, Ø Records)
Joanna Gemma Auguri – Circles (Hiraeth, Duchess Box Records)
O. – TV Dinners (WeirdOs, Speedy Wunderground)
Tristwch Y Fenywod – Gelain Gors (Tristwch Y Fenywod, Night School Records)
Ática – Ponto (2, Mai Lei Bel)
Robyn Rocket and People you May of Heard of – Mystery Man (Love E.P., Bucks Records)
Concretism – Trunk Switching Centre (39 Furnival Street, Error Correction)
GOMID – YUMMY! Acoustic version (YouTube video)
Louis Carnell & Damsel Elysium – fifteen (111, Mute)
Senyawa – Vajranala II (Vajranala, The State51 Conspiracy)
Bob Log III – Consuela Did It (single, self-released)
Kristina Bruuk – Flower Girl (Between Heaven And Helsinki, Kalevala Records)