Month: July 2014

United Over Ukraine [Interview]

A completely civic initiative, without any backing from government and/or organizations affiliated with political parties...

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Images of Africa

Images of Africa. Jyoti Bindu steers wide of the politics and brings the pictures....

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Staff Benda Bilili : Union Chapel

The music they play is infectious – danceable, catchy, beautiful to listen to. Put them in a stunning building in North London and what could go wrong?...

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On Troubadours, Sufism and Robert Graves

The original medieval troubadours, who expounded the art of Courtly Love through poetry and song and who were embroiled with the heretical ideas of gnosticism and Catharism, owed their existence to...

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Sebastian Bach : O2 Islington [Live]

If the music was polished, it was in the between-songs repartee where Bach won the crowd over....

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Loitered Lens : The Merrylees

Photos of Merrylees at The Garage, Islington....

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Return to the Source redux

Return to the Source – 21st Anniversary Reunion Party...

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Veracity of Soul and Materialist Reductionism

a person who believes they have no soul is as dangerous to our besieged planet, in their own way, as one who is out to save the soul of others...

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Entrails Vs King of Asgard Vs Secret Cutter

Metal is a means of escape, perhaps even transcendence; its extremity allowing an explosion of raw passion and primal emotions...

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Wolves in the Throne Room : Celestite

One gets the sense that Wolves in the Throne Room are soundtracking the Joseph Campbell monomyth of their own lives, but rather than a Disneyesque prog version, they’re going deeper. ...

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Knifeworld : The Unravelling

Fans of Zappa should find a lot to like about this record, as should anyone who thinks there should be more bassoons in rock. ...

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Takahito Irie : Interview

I like the Sci-fi stuff. We always harbour desire and imagination for future life, and humans are making it real....

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Loitered Lens : Gold Lake

Photos of Gold Lake at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen...

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Singapore’s Library Board Pulps Books

Should the library be allowed to impose a moralistic "pro-family" (anti-LGBTQ) policy over its public access collections and withdraw those books which do not reflect those so-called "community...

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Neil Gaiman at the Barbican

For an hour or so, we could almost taste the wetted air of foggy heaths and breathe the scent of mythical caves....

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Applied Carpe Diem – Living and Dying with ALS

To fully appreciate life, we also need to understand and appreciate death...

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Contemporary Sculpture, Zabludowicz Collection

At the Zabludowicz Collection, it is not just our perception of different media that is challenged, but also our relationships to time, scale, colour, form and materials...

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The Pearl Harts : The Garage, Islington [Live]

The Pearl Harts, a tenacious, rock hungry duo opening the show for Kagoule....

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Breugel to Freud : Prints at the Courtauld

If one pauses to listen, then there are some quietly iconoclastic voices to be heard....

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Loitered Lens : Twin Atlantic

Photos of Twin Atlantic live at the Hospital Club, 8th July 2014...

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Austerity = Kids Eating from Bins

Logic has been ignored – and now we have children eating scraps from bins to survive. ...

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Application : System Fork

Fascinating hybrid forms that don't fit easily into genres, but operate along a fluid ambient/electronica/electro spectrum...

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3 Teeth [Album Review]

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

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NILE [Live]

Egyptian mythology-themed death metallers NILE get necrotic in Southampton....

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The Festival Burner

Now with bank apps, emails, incriminating pictures, your phone is an invitation to be blackmailed, divorced or arrested. A lost phone infinitely more so....

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This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...

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Loitered Lens : Othon

Othon - 'a joyous celebration with a meze of cultural references'. Photos ...

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Tav Falco’s Urania Descending [Film]

Grab the chance to lurk in the swampwaters of Tav Falco's imagination at the London premiere of his latest film: Urania Descending....

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Time for the Twitter Bubble to Burst

If your Twitter row is resulting in someone being fired, imprisoned or put at risk, it is time to get some perspective on your internet use...

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Fourth of July Spitroast

There's a whole lot of meat between the rooter and the tooter so that means there's little point in getting it on unless the whole neighbourhood is coming...

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