Author: A. Tonnerre

Ex-London based reader of art and culture. Specialist subjects include; media, philosophy, cultural aesthetics, contemporary art and French wine. When not searching for road-worn copies of eighteenth-century travelogues he can be found loitering in the inspirational uplands of art galleries throughout Europe.

Creative Psychology, Mysticism, and the Way Within

07/07/2018

In the instance of the human body consciousness experiences these forces and their equilibrium or disequilibrium as a sense of either wellbeing or sickness. ...

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Aural Satisfaction and Broken Beats [Duran Duran Duran Interview]

01/11/2017

Philly Blunts to Thrice-Named Breakcore: the rise of Ed Flis's Duran Duran Duran...

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Duran Duran Duran

How do you know if you’ve never tasted it?

13/10/2017

Search unfriendly Duran Duran Duran release another epic milestone in belligerent music...

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(Clean) Flesh and Feminism. The SoapGirls (Interview)

26/07/2016

Squeaky clean or down and dirty? You decide. The Soap Girls bare (almost) all....

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Long Distance Calling

Let Out the Kraut: Trips (Long Distance Calling)

26/04/2016

What happens a German electro-prog band hands out the brown acid. Album Review...

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Blues Pills

Consult your doctor: Dorian Sorriaux talks Blues Pills

12/10/2015

Interview with guitarist Dorian Sorriaux from Blues Pills at Ramblin' Man Fair 2015. ...

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Deep thrills: Amenra & High on Fire (Damnation 2015)

18/09/2015

Damnation festival: 7th November 2015. Leeds University Union. ...

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Ramblin' Man Fair 2015

Legends of music congregate for the faithful (Ramblin’ Man Fair 2015)

28/08/2015

It was a weekend to wear your denim (double or triple) and not to care too deeply about musical fashions, time, or even bad behaviour. ...

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Sleepers awake as Camden Rocks.

13/06/2015

Skindred, LTNT, Red House Glory, Outside the Coma, Beasts, The Dirty Youth - for each band there is a different tributary toward whatever end they see coming....

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Solefald : World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud

20/01/2015

To say that they're referencing Dadaism or Situationism wouldn't be a cop out, but it wouldn't tell you anything either, and that is the danger of this record....

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Suciide Girls

The Blackheart Burlesque where suicidal onesies bump, jump and grind to Die Antwoord.

16/01/2015

Suicide Girls : Blackheart Burlesque Live While the majority of the men in the audience quietly beamed, the girls in the audience hooted and hollered....

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The Manic Shine : Let Go Or Be Dragged

17/12/2013

The guitar interplay is way above average fantastic, riffing off each other, pushing the music into stratospheric trippy heights and reminiscent of some tasty prog, it’s deliciousness itself....

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Feeding People

Feeding People : Island Universe

06/04/2013

Youth shouldn't be safe, it should be more exploratory, it should shock and offend, and demand a better world....

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Vulgaari : Vulgaari

22/02/2013

Vulgaari by Vulgaari is such a mind numbing record that it should be the centrepiece in a church to mental restraint. - An Everyman Review of Good Ole Metal...

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Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay

05/11/2012

Trebuchet reviews the atmospheric tribal militarism of Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay...

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FONTANELLE Vitamin F

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

22/10/2012

For a devout cadre of vinyl record owning, real ale drinking, herbal cigarette smoking losers Jazz fusion is the pinnacle of music. ...

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Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, an American avant-garde music group from San Francisco, performing at Williamsburg Music Hall, Brooklyn, New York, May 30, 2009. Photo: ampersandyslexia (wiki)

I Hate the Concept of Revolution. I Spit On It: Trey Spruance

19/10/2011

Interview with Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, Faith No More, and Mr Bungle Fame on music and spirituality....

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Bloodstock

Bloodstock 2011

24/08/2011

Blinded by the righteous black Bloodstock 2011 gathers the tribes. ...

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paper doll militia

The Paper Doll Militia: Aerial Theatre

15/08/2011

No Strings Attached: Nomadic performers bring aerial theatre to new heights. Aerial theatre which blends mystery, childlike wonder, technical mastery and whimsical beauty The Paper Doll Militia work...

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neurosis

Neurosis – KOKO, London, UK

06/12/2010

In December 2010 I witnessed rock and roll’s nadir, the point where you look upon a crowd of stupid fucks and wish that each and every one of them would fucking die....

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