For a band that who’s name allegedly translates to “Owl’s Penis” and don’t take themselves to seriously they know now to put a tight first record together, Kvelertak don’t really have the punk rock sound but they certainly have the attitude. They have more invent their own genre which could only be described as ”Black’n’Roll” which can [...]
Bloody ‘ell doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? It is only a few months until London’s premier boutique festival, Offset comes around again. Last year’s line-up opened my eyes, blew my eardrums and destroyed my liver and 2010 doesn’t look like it’s going to be going lightly on me either. This year Offset is [...]
Sometimes there is a bill so good you’ll clamber over the corpse of your dead grandmother to go to it. This was one such gig with appearances by the over amped doom of Pombagira, time signature bending Black Cobra, groove ridden hardcore gods Saviours and deep south cliché shotgun totting Jack Daniel’s guzzling Weedeater. Lips were pouting, heads [...]
Remember those teenage days of staying up late to watch banned music videos on MTV? With music tv becoming increasingly defunct due to on-demand videos from YouTube, I honestly never thought I’d see the day when a video was banned again. It seems that Brooklyn disco noiseniks HEALTH have joined the ranks of Prodigy, Motley [...]
I’m pretty damn excited due to the large amount of Entombed worship going on right now, bands like Trap Them and Doomriders are bring back the Swedish Death’n’Roll sound. Southern Lord’s Black Breath are the most potent of the lot. Throwing extreme metal, crushing riffage and hardcore punk together Black breath are surprisingly a breath [...]
I found myself on this Friday afternoon shooting a portrait for a greek newspaper in the Birkberk office of Costas Douzinas, a law professor and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Costas’s office was a library of books and papers which made them a natural backdrop for such a learned man. Costas was [...]
Right that is it, I’m done with electro noise bands and their amazing strobe-tastic showmanship(personship?). Over the last 2 weeks I’ve had the pleasure to have my ears melted off by both Atari Teenage Riot and Crystal Castles. Strobe lighting isn’t a photographers friend though I’ll tell you that!
I’ve been digging around again in the Paul Caudell Archives and come up trumps with this environmental portrait I did in 2007 of MMSoraya. MMSoraya is a London based sculptor, doll maker and mixed media artist. Her work is striking, textured and dark. She is available for commission and exhibition. Please contact me and I will put [...]
Between listening to Deicide and Emperor this week I’ve been going mental for The National’s new album High Violet. I’ve had 4 favourite tracks already from this slow burning masterpiece! Last week I was lucky enough to see them twice, both at Camden’s Electric Ballroom and Royal Albert Hall.
I’ve been digging through some of my old work and I found this from late last year. After starting a facebook group campaigning to get the Whisper Gold back Ollie Emery got his dream and ended up not only championing the re-launch but becoming a main part of it. As part of that he asked [...]