August 2018 ⋆ THE SHONK

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[ January 6, 2026 ] No Wave Bliss, Chef’s Kiss Sensor Ghost Irritation on Demand ALBUM REVIEWS
[ December 29, 2025 ] Egg Spectrum’s Stinky Sketchbook 2025 ALBUM REVIEWS
[ December 15, 2025 ] His Name is Jim E. Brown and the name of this article is ‘Jim E Brown might be this generation’s Gerard Hoffnung LIVE REVIEWS
[ December 6, 2025 ] The Diegetic Joy of LC Pumpkin ALBUM REVIEWS
[ February 27, 2024 ] BLACK WESKER – ECO PUNK, NO JUNK BY BAND

GREEN MAN PT3 2018

August 31, 2018 DUKE Comments Off

I’m going to admit at this point that I’ve lost the second itinerary that I wrote out for this exercise. I lost the one that I made for the festival so wrote out another by […]

GREEN MAN PT2 2018

August 30, 2018 DUKE Comments Off

Saturday… and my head was pounding! I had spent far more energy tokens than I had intended on Friday night deep into Saturday morning, I even introduced gin into the equation (some peer pressure may […]

SHONK CROSSWORD 1

August 29, 2018 DUKE 3,178

As part of our ongoing endeavour to bring joy to music lovers here is the first Shonk crossword puzzle. True to our form it should be pretty out there. The top three fastest people to […]

GREEN MAN PT1 2018

August 29, 2018 DUKE 2,617

Many months ago I got the hankering for a festival. I didn’t fancy the fast paced turbo charged carnage of Boomtown, a festival so amazing that you never see any of the acts you have […]

THE BURNING HELL 1

August 12, 2018 DUKE 3,963

The Burning Hell… without doubt are one of the greatest bands to exist in all of time and I can say that with confidence because I have lost count of how many times I have […]

ALL YOUR BRYCHEINIOG ARE BELONG TO US!

August 12, 2018 DUKE Comments Off

Video games are great. If you disagree with that statement I would advise you to continue reading as by the end of it you might understand facets of them that you never knew existed. If […]

No Wave Bliss, Chef’s Kiss Sensor Ghost Irritation on Demand

January 6, 2026 Comments Off on No Wave Bliss, Chef’s Kiss Sensor Ghost Irritation on Demand

Hooked by the playful guffaw of the title track, Irritation on Demand I sought the album. Between September and Christmas it shot its way up the list of ‘most listened albums of 2025’ here at [...]
Egg Spectrum’s Stinky Sketchbook 2025

December 29, 2025 Comments Off on Egg Spectrum’s Stinky Sketchbook 2025

Responding to someone’s request on Facebook to ‘review their latest album’ can be dangerous territory. I vowed never to do it again, since most of the stuff I hear, I can’t articulate words for, holistic [...]
His Name is Jim E. Brown and the name of this article is ‘Jim E Brown might be this generation’s Gerard Hoffnung

December 15, 2025 Comments Off on His Name is Jim E. Brown and the name of this article is ‘Jim E Brown might be this generation’s Gerard Hoffnung

Rising to the surface like a fart in the bathtub, ‘Beans on Toast’ by Jim E Brown started playing on one of the weekly playlists we cycle through – I remember exactly where I was, [...]
The Diegetic Joy of LC Pumpkin

December 6, 2025 Comments Off on The Diegetic Joy of LC Pumpkin

I’m at the 2025 Skynet LAN event and due to requiring an update the software that I use that strips ads from my Facebook feed isn’t working properly. As a result, certain adverts are creeping [...]
BLACK WESKER – ECO PUNK, NO JUNK

February 27, 2024 13,090

Black Wesker comprise a fusion of punk, indie and jazz with improvisation and stylistic changes that subvert the expecations of audiences and regular viewers. The band has developed a reputation for playing their songs in [...]
POP DONE RIGHT BUT WITH A WINKY FACE – THE VANITY PROJECT

January 31, 2024 11,717

Once in a blue moon we stumble across an album that makes us sit up right, pay attention and think ‘fuck this is how it should be done’ – a flawless collection of hits that [...]
PERIPHERAL OBSERVATIONS OF A FRESHLY-SHAVEN CYNIC

January 30, 2023 10,156

One of the many things the scribe gets off on when attending a ‘cultural event’ is watching from the side lines the secondary features outside of the reason he payed a lot of money to [...]

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