Author: Kailas

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Pop a cap on your head. Limp Bizkit rock Brixton

Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015. ...

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Loitered Lens: Ramblin’ Man Fair

Photos from Ramblin' Man Fair. Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2015, Maidstone, Kent...

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And still they scream (The Sonics 2015)

The suited old gentlemen taking the stage might have entered the Forum slowly, but as soon as the beat kicked in the dust fell off the band, and the beast emerged....

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Shit music vs. Shamanic hardware with Author & Punisher

I think one of the main things destroying our country right now is the boredom of white people. We're bored and depressed so we collect guns and aim them at immigrants....

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Industrial, metallic and alienating, Melk En Honing (Author & Punisher)

Similar in both subject matter and delivery to Godflesh, Ministry and Killing Joke, you'd expect this to be neither an immediate nor an uplifting experience. However.... ...

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Two Joans, good grace & strong cider. Cambridge Folk Festival 2015

Blessed by great weather the festival was a sold out success with myth making performances from The Proclaimers, Joan Baez, Wilko Johnson, Joan Armatrading and The Unthanks....

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New Strats and Teles : Reconditioning Guitars for Sound Lounge

The idea that a loved but untouched instrument can find a new and noble home is one that warms the hearts of many musicians. As it did with Sound Lounge / Fair Frets founder Keiron Marshall when he...

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The Black Guy in the Middle: Skindred’s Benji Webbe

‘Look, humour me, just try it. Do some dancehall stuff on top of the punk we do’. Next thing you know we’re called Dub War and we've got a record deal. - Benji Webb...

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Loitered Lens : Primus live at Brixton Academy

Primus wanted to remind you that they’ve always been a band looking forward, reminding us that the old stuff was just that....

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Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

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Boys on parade (Beasts)

It’s an unspoken thing really, whether we play to five people or a thousand, it just comes out naturally. As soon as we start playing it just happens for us....

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Loitered Lens: LTNT in the Studio

Where formerly fantastic musicians suddenly clam up when faced with the prospect of ‘being recorded’, not so with LTNT...

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Shambolic youth and vigour (LTNT)

We’re recording. Carefree and silly, it's going be hard to get a serious question past them. LTNT Camden Rocks interview...

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Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

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Craving acceptance [Dir En Grey]

'I think that it’s really up to the listeners to determine what we are, not us.' ...

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Girls can growl! [Devilskin]

Hugs were had, drinks spilled and firm handshakes shook....

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Red Ink and Difficult Happiness. Interview Pt 2 [Beth Hart]

I got a ton of tattoos, at first I bullshitted and said that every one meant something to me and it was some deep thing, and it really wasn’t....

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His Hobo Cabaret [Seasick Steve]

The downhome drawl, the dungarees, the hobo stories, the homemade instruments. Seasick Steve Live @ Eventim Apollo, London. April 14th 2015....

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Freelancing, self employment and accountants.

A gross day rate multiplied by 365 sounds impressive to some but the take home reality is generally less… much, much less. Plan accordingly....

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Red Ink and Difficult Happiness [Beth Hart]

This has been the most difficult, the most scary experience I’ve had writing and making a record and I know why. It’s because I was scared....

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Language games across the checkmate of infinity

These are not really poems, that's why I put the word poem in inverted commas in the title. ...

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An initial crunch, then a soft succulent filling [Port Royal Patties]

'New Product Development can be time consuming and wasteful. On the other hand, customers want to see NPD from time to time'...

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Misanthropic roots record for the rootless savage [Thomas Koner]

As a leading musician within forward-thinking electronic music circles Koner's work around his theme presupposes an exploration into the primitive nomadic elements of being human. ...

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Blues purists must die [JJ Grey]

JJ Grey will no doubt continue his slow ascent in the blues world, playing to rapt (but quietened) audiences throughout the world...

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The broho vigour of a shotgunned Pabst Blue Label (Attila)

Loitered Lens captures Attila at Electric Ballroom...

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I was full of shit and I still am (JJ Grey)

JJ Grey interview I want my music to be like a jambalaya, or some kind of dish where you can taste all the elements but they all blend together and make one taste. ...

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Zakk Wylde [Black Label Society] : Interview

I always tell kids that you gotta have passion for whatever it is you're playing. It's easier said than done....

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I’m just a primate falling in love (Diagrams)

I couldn't quite say : 'Oh yeah I had a master plan and it all turned out exactly how I wanted!'....

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I’m not particularly interested in redoing old films (Colin Vaines)

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”C/dropcapolin Vaines: writer, educator, film producer, cigar smoker and bon vivant is a busy man and his inscrutable demeanour contains an...

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The Marigold : Kanaval

An intersection between prog, drone, cinematic noise and the cathartic gospel...

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