“One Man Underground gives us his first day at the Rebellion Festival with photos by Dick Slaughter.“
My first day at the festival proper, featuring reviews of The Pink Diamond Revue, Yur Mum, Animal of Anti Nowhere League, The Meffs, Subhumans, Carol Hodge, The Godfathers, Lydia Lunch, Dwarves, and Sham 69.
“1MU arrives in Blackpool, and immediately becomes immersed in punk… and Covid?“
A brief sojourn into the Rebellion fringes, featuring Subalternos, Hacksaw, and Knuckleheadz.
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!)
“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.
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)