Month: November 2012

Creeping Ivies: Stay Wild

30/11/2012

Becca has a strong, more booming voice than the punk singers, at times reminiscent of PJ Harvey or Empress of Fur. Perhaps a bit of gravel or drawl would have added to the tone, but generally it was...

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Leviathan: Matadero Theatre, Madrid

30/11/2012

without the progression of a story, or identification with a protagonist, the sequence of juxtaposed imagery and sound can alienate an audience and reduce the performance to circus turns...

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The Zolas: Ancient Mars

29/11/2012

Piano/organ builds, picked guitar melodies, crunching riffs, and a lyrical approach that constructs vivid narratives using thematic language. It's funny, and fun, as well as being an almost perfect...

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Alexandra Ackerman: Interview

28/11/2012

Alexandra Ackerman: an LA transplant with a cache of romance novel covers, film, television and stage performances under her belt. When it comes to Hollywood substance is usually traded for beauty,...

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Sigha: Living with Ghosts

27/11/2012

'Keeping the toxic new-age cliches at bay entails a danger of entirely immersing yourself in self-conscious gloom', Sigha manages to avoid the pitfalls....

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Singapore’s Affordable Art

26/11/2012

I’ve been slowly unraveling the mazes of subtle complexities in the art world here, and one of the first events to land on Singaporean soil as I did was the Affordable Art Fair....

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Loitered Lens: Two Gallants

25/11/2012

Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity of...

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Zionist Heckles Answered

24/11/2012

Why should the neighbors of the Zionist state be forced to live on their knees and give perpetual penitence because of the crimes of the anti-Semites of Europe? ...

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Apples & Eve: Dionysus

23/11/2012

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

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House of Burlesque: Shipwrecked [Review]

22/11/2012

The questions here are, is Burlesque exploitative? Does it reinforce cultural and sexual attitudes that are complicit in sexual harassment or is this just a great medium of feminist expression and a...

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Brown Sugar and Mustard-Glazed Bone-in Ham

21/11/2012

Well the holidays are indeed coming and as y’all know, a homemade baked ham is a southern holiday staple. ...

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The Tribes of Britain

21/11/2012

To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. ...

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Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

20/11/2012

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

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Ben Caplan [Live]

19/11/2012

Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s...

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Loitered Lens: Nightwish

18/11/2012

‘this gig was really about the new vocalist. Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it....

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SWN Festival

17/11/2012

A brilliant little festival. Lots going in on, all within a stone's throw....

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English Grads: Less Useless Than You Thought

17/11/2012

'is there any research on how unemployable an English graduate is? As it happens, yes.' ...

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Perhaps Contraption:Interview

16/11/2012

When I play music, and connect with other musicians, I want to be transported away from the tripe the world churns up....

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Hank Ray and the Raymen

The Raymen: Death’s Black Train EP

16/11/2012

If you don’t buy it you will die, if you do buy it you will die. You may as well buy it and die happy....

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Panic Room: On Business

16/11/2012

'exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We...

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Can ‘Khan’ Oral – Angels of Disguise

15/11/2012

As a jumping-off point for facetious gasbagging of just about any moral, political, religious or personal viewpoint, pornography is a gift to the commentator in love with the sound of his or her own...

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Stabbing a Dead Horse

14/11/2012

"We have Mellotron! We are Prog again!". Tim Hall reports on the last night of the Stabbing a Dead Horse prog rock tour....

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Let it Be [Theatre]

13/11/2012

It should not be possible to make a Sgt Pepper's set look more like a Slade Christmas special...

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The Vudu Experiment: Pt. 3

12/11/2012

'logic has completely failed us - the Kingdom is in tatters. What have you got to lose?' SWP applies Voodoo thinking to the UK's political woes ...

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Loitered Lens: Zulu

11/11/2012

A wall of guitar sound with nods to Sonic Youth style discord, eighties goth type melodies and some fast and furious new wave drumming....

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Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal

10/11/2012

A 2 year voyage for this, the largest ever collection of Andy Warhol works in Asia, which will tour from Singapore to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing Tokyo. ...

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DELS: Black Salad [EP]

10/11/2012

The 'puttin' a bitch on the corner from the time I wuz fourteen, chill wit' my niggas, emceed my way up from the gutters' narrative that still, incomprehensibly, provides mid-west cornfed WASPs with...

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Nightwish: Brixton Academy [Live]

09/11/2012

Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it. Floor Jansen made a very strong impression,...

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Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: Electric Ballroom [Live]

09/11/2012

As they launch into the second song of the set, the filthy 'Celebrate Your Mother', members of the audience are already flinging themselves around and being dragged, sometimes minus footwear, over...

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Syd Arthur: Dorothy [Stream]

08/11/2012

A scruffy bunch of Canterbury hair-farmers they may be, but Syd Arthur certainly nailed that awful hopelessness of pavement cafes and flimsy sundresses giving way to the slate-grey gloom of November....

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