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Month: June 2018

BLEEP BLOOPS

A WEEK OF WHELMED PT3 THE FINAL FRONTIER

June 11, 2018 dukeofearl 0

In the beginning, There were three excited individuals who had tickets to a 12-hour hootenanny in Bristol that provided a rich palette of sounds ranging from the recognisable and expected to the jaw-dropping and terrifying. […]

GIG REVIEWS

THE WEEK OF WHELMED PT2

June 11, 2018 dukeofearl 0

Lead Upto… Still processing Monday’s top night at Hy-Brasil with SANS & CRACK CLOUD The Shoracle contacted me asking if I wanted a ticket to see Warmduscher at The Exchange on Thursday, at the time […]

FACE MELTERS

THE WEEK OF WHELMED PT1

June 10, 2018 dukeofearl 1

Lead Upto… Sometimes the gig calendar looks bleak for us lowly writers. We look up at the big board on our writer’s floor and there are huge soulless gaps where we have to find things […]

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GIG REVIEWS

AIDEN MOFFAT & RM HUBBERT

June 7, 2018 Jeni Hell 0

Aiden Moffat and RM Hubbert played their latest album called Here lies the Body released on Rock Action Records, in the gig room at Rough Trade Records in Bristol with support from Siobhan Wilson. I […]

Random Reads!

  • 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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