April 2018 – The Shonk

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OHMYYES!

April 30, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Discovered these on Tuesday, listened to around 1 minute of them and decided to go and see them! The plan was to go to Cardiff but it clashed with another gig so off to Bristol […]

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TANGLED HAIR – THE FLEECE BRISTOL – MARCH 2018

April 30, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Following the train analogy used to describe the opening act these guys add another carriage of jazz to their locomotive and employ the mind-blowingly exception skills of a drummer who I imagine eats other drummers […]

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CHIYODA KU – THE FLEECE BRISTOL – MARCH 2018

April 30, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Connecting a carriage of jazz onto the locomotive of math-esque post-rock these guys will take you on a magical winding journey across a soundscape of built-up, ashen cities, before delving underground into eternal tunnels of […]

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THE BURNING HELL – HY-BRASIL BRISTOL – APRIL / MAY 2016

April 30, 2018 dukeofearl 0

The Shonk just love it when our Canadian Ambassadors come over to party with us and play us their wonderful anti-folk, indie narrative, stream of consciousness, nostalgia-rap (that, by our standards is a genre that […]

THESE DUKES ARE YOUR HAZZARDS

April 29, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Exceptional multi-interconnected super genre breaching pop-plug mega band destroying all notions of traditional construct in ‘song world’ with their insane live performance. (Original review lost in a fire) – Note; in this video the drummer […]

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ACID CANNIBALS & TAMAN SHUD – THE OLD ENGLAND BRISTOL – MARCH 2018

April 25, 2018 dukeofearl 0

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SONGBIRDSLOWSONG

December 29, 2020 0

The corridors and offices of Shonk Towers are empty and dark. The causation, a global pandemic that has led to the extermination of most of our staff, with nothing more than an intern popping in [...]
CARDIACS

July 22, 2020 0

For months, maybe years I kept thinking about writing this piece, to just talk about my love for Cardiacs. Tim might have said ‘there’s no rush’ but those words can carry a lot of foreshadowing. [...]
DARQUE TIMES UPON US

July 8, 2020 0

Alas, a component of my life I have missed this year is the ability to walk into a gig ‘ear-blind’ – It’s an amazing way to install new music into one’s mind. Clearly the solution [...]
IT’LL BE WINTERREISE ON THE NIGHT

July 2, 2020 0

Since I saw him opening for Black Midi at Rough Trade in a Bristol a couple years ago I have been awestruck by Jerskin Fendrix. I remember watching the show bewildered and excited by what [...]
ANALOGUE ASSESSMENT

June 30, 2020 0

From sunny and exciting Brighton, the town I talk about visiting but never do comes a three-piece who has peaked my aural appeal with their latest single Digital Depression. The band is MI-HI and within a [...]
The Old England

June 30, 2020 0

Tucked away in Montpelier amidst a venous of narrow roads that climb steep hills, hidden in plain sight aside a surgery carpark is the magical haven that is The Old England. Akin to the shop [...]
BAND BREAKS OUT WHILST STAYING IN

June 19, 2020 0

On the 12th of this month history was made when up and coming quartet Sub Cultures released their second single Alone. Despite these tense and trying times, unchartered by many and quite possibly the most unsettling [...]

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