History is made at night: Dead by Dawn, Brixton, 1994-96 Bloody hell this brought back some great memories. I can barely tear myself away from the keyboard because I want to hold forth about this seminal night out… safe to say this had as much influence on me eleven years ago as BASH had on …
Time for a Bug Update. Been too long. You all got the Jah War 12″, right? And you need something that can actually sit next to it in your record shelves – without melting? SKENG. First heard when Loefah unleashed it at JME’s birthday bash at FWD in May. Never forgotten since. Is out at …
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A number of us are putting together a new zine about reggae, grime and dubstep. There are some amazing things in the first issue. It is nearly ready to go to the printers. Hold tight all the contributors. More news soon. http://www.woofahmag.com http://www.myspace.com/woofah EDIT: thanks for all your interest in the `zine. I should add …
Kingsland slammed the megaphone handle into his critic’s temple, causing the whining, posing tossbag to collapse into a crumpled heap. “ATTACK!!” George screamed – the signal for the great unwashed of the Clapton Brew Crew to charge through the crowd, kicking and punching anything that moved! A hail of Merrydown bottles, filled with piss, rained …
TV “List programmes” are always annoying and the recent BBC4 effort “The Seven Ages of Rock” was no exception. The usual array of self-serving industry talkingheads rubbed shoulders with “I was there” merchants, which left very little scope for anything fresh or current or subversive to leak through. I guess there is so much commercial …
Week 9: Industrial Grab Bag Some Coil and Throbbing Gristle seven inch singles and related fanzines. I never saw TG live, as I was 11 when they split up. They existed as this weird phantom overlooking many of the bands I got into in the mid 80s. This was before the Mute reissue programme, so …