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 [...]
John Peel brought me up in the latter years of my musical independance. Laying in the dark listening to him harp on about Fierce Panda records with my pair of headphones hoping my parents wouldn’t hear. John Peel described The Fall “always different, always the same.”. So when John Peel’s favourite band played the my second home The [...]
Friday night and I’m looking forward to a evening of brap and ‘money grabbing’ . I’m standing waiting for Hip Hop legends Dead Prez to come on stage. To my very pleasant surpise our own ‘ackney wide boy and one of my favourite UK MC’s Klashnekoff is providing us with some very quick little uk [...]
I’m at Club NME’s very own Halloween event at the KOKO tonight. I’m still in my civies and I’m clearly not out to party, I’ve got a face like slapped arse. I missed the first 3 songs of Invasion after being accosted by women who “worked for Saatchi and Saatchi” who needed money for a cab home/crack. I [...]
It’s the morning after and I’m still in shock. Gore metal Legend’s put on a show which can only be described as biblical last night. With mosh pits like paintings depicting hell and the relentless brutality of Cannibal Corpse’s riffage, I feel aurally destroyed . The Photo pit was like the plunge pool at the end [...]
What keeps me going to watch and photograph HEALTH is pretty much the same as makes people peer through their fingers when watching horror movies. HEALTH are so loud they make you feel like your ears are bleeding. Their unique blend of noise, dance and airy psychedelic vocals has every hipster in town out for [...]
There is something to be said about being stone cold sober on a Friday night in Camden Town. I’ll be honest it’s not something that happens to me very often so walking in the club was like a warm clammy slap around the face. It’s been quite a evening for me already by the time [...]
I had a tough time trying to get a photo pass for this gig. lucky for me, the new residencey at KOKO came just in time for me to get in front of the blundgingly heavy atmospheric post hardcore giants ISIS.
Chromehoof never cease to amaze. They look like the Sun Ra left his Arkerstra and started a cult. This cult then raided Moloko’s wardrobe and donned the stage to provide the world (or at least the UK) with with an eclectic blend of Jazz, Doom Metal, Ambience, Experimentalism and, well, an indesribeable amount more.
I first [...]