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Loitered Lens: Flamin’ Groovies
Photos of 1960s protopunk godfathers The Flamin’ Groovies shining through the London gloom (read more)
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The Flamin’ Groovies at Under the Bridge
1960s protopunk godfathers The Flamin’ Groovies shine through gloom in London. (read more)
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Loitered Lens: The Skids
Playing out their first new album in 35 years, The Skids grip Camden’s Roundhouse (read more)
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Music, Suspense, Noodles! Sharks on Film Rampage
Do not go gently into that dull, safe middle way. The Sharks rage, pedal down, into the Rock ‘n’ Roll sun (read more)
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Woman of Substances (Jenny Valentish)
Addiction isn’t gender neutral, and neither is mental health. (read more)
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Joy and Division: Peter Hook (Interview)
Peter Hook talks New Order, Joy Division and women in yoghurt. (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Last Great Dreamers
Viddy those droogs! Last Great Dreamers put on a horrorshow sloochattening at the Hope and Anchor. Photos (read more)
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Valentine’s Deez (Comeback Kid/Deez Nuts)
Bonejarring, limbflinging downtuned hardcore, metal and slam provide an alternative to overpriced dinner and moodswings (read more)
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Loitered Lens: New Model Army
A welcome return to protest politics and riot rock at Kentish Town Forum. Photos (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Sleaford Mods @ The Roundhouse
Gathering momentum, Sleaford Mods roll into Camden’s Roundhouse. Photos (read more)
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RIP Micky Fitz (The Business)
A fond farewell to Micky Fitz, singer with London punk outfit The Business (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Sharks @ King’s Cross Station
Scenes from King’s Cross as Sharks bring the Ya Ya Pop to London (read more)
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Everything is nothing but mind: Interview with Jah Wobble
Iconic bassist and composer Jah Wobble talks music, spirituality and politics (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Anabella’s Bow Wow Wow & Ed Tudor Pole
Photos of two eighties icons unlikely to crop up on safe pop nostalgia tours (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Deerhoof
Uncompromising in sound, eclectic in vision. Deerhoof at NOS Primavera Sound (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Dinosaur Jnr
Preaching the raw energy and full dynamics of 90s alt-rock to a Portuguese congregation, Dinosaur Jnr, photos (read more)
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Loitered Lens: The SoapGirls
Pink, glitter, punk, gritty. Photographs of The SoapGirls at The Dublin Castle, London. (read more)
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(Clean) Flesh and Feminism. The SoapGirls (Interview)
Squeaky clean or down and dirty? You decide. The Soap Girls bare (almost) all. (read more)
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Shark Cars and Metal Guitars (Interview)
Steve ‘Snips’ Parsons interviews Chris Spedding (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Mudhoney (at Primavera, Porto)
Mudhoney show no signs of drying up on the baked fields of Primavera, Porto. Photos (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Shame
Snarling punk energy and teenage kicks. Photos of Shame, live at the Garage (read more)
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Manami Mogg’s Moggy Metal Mix 2 (Wo Fat, Interment, Death Angel, Regret)
With the suburban bliss of both Primary and Secondary Feeders shattered by the horticulturalists next-door, Manami Mogg reviews the month’s metal releases (read more)
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Deeper Into the Hepatitis Bathtub
A booksigning followed by dinner should be simple. In newly-cleansed Manhattan, it’s anything but (read more)
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Loitered Lens: The Fall
Photos from The Fall playing live at The Garage, Islington (read more)
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In New York City with the Hepatitis Bathtub
En route to NYC for a NOFX book signing, Scott Laudati takes the Red Sox and racism trail (read more)
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The incomprehensible and the incomparable. (The Fall)
A review of The Fall, Monday 25th April 2016 at The Garage, Islington (read more)
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Sever spawned a Monster’s Ball (Sumo Cyco live at The Underworld)
A kerosene cocktail of sparky lust and punk metal power – Sumo Cyco raise the temperature at the Underworld. Review (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Stiff Little Fingers (The Forum, 2016)
Never tired, never complacent, Stiff Little Fingers revved the Kentish Town Forum to the redline. Photos (read more)
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Post Punk Drone and Cultural Imperialism. (Wire)
Wire – A band so good they named both a cult TV series and a snotty music magazine after them. Live review (read more)
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Freshly Polished, Forever Stomping: Stiff Little Fingers (Forum, 2016)
Snapping the jumpleads to the zombie corpse of punk rock, Stiff Little Fingers sparked the Forum’s assembled masses to a beer-lobbing froth. (read more)