Archive for May, 2008

Posted by Oxking 81 COMMENTS

Following on from the band’s self titled album in 2004, the Cure are indeed almost finished their as-yet-untitled 13th album. Being such a precocious number for a precocious band, they have also plans to release four singles, one on the 13th of each month until the album comes out. The first single “The Only One” [...]

Categories: Music, News
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Holy Shit! Better start Vetting your DVD collection, the thought police have struck once again with the red-hot iron of unreason. Im talking about the new “Extreme Pornography Law.” This law will make the following illegal to posess: an act which threatens a person’s life, an act which results, or is likely to result, in [...]

Categories: Activism, News
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Alright guys. We have a few developments on the site. The ongoing expansion of our listings has taken wings and split in two. From the very beginning, we’ve always had a Gigs Calendar and that served us well for quite a while, but now we’re trying to take flight and take it all much further. [...]

Categories: News
Posted by James Paterson 98 COMMENTS

A slightly late entry into the venue after a tour of the delights of an industrial town without industrial waste takes us somewhere in the midst of Sieben’s performance. A musician who gets as much as he can from his single instrument, the violin. Using an effects box of some kind he records several loops [...]

Categories: Events, Gigs, Music, News, Review
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Personally I love the use of odd instruments in music. I consider myself on some level to be a Glockenspiel fetishist even. in my fandom of the myriad worlds of rock I’ve noticed time and time again the cycles these odd instruments go through. You’ll hear one band use a mini organ and two months [...]

Categories: Music, News
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Whilst on the brink of what could have been a disastrous weekend, but in fact actually turned out ok (like most things in life), your fellow Ox and GIR took the Mirthmobile to the @rena (at-rena?) on Friday night with a couple of sexy laydies and a man called Boot. Now, it’s been a while [...]

Categories: Music, News, Review
Posted by Oxking 96 COMMENTS

Wow. Really, wow. You can tell Trent Reznor has been laying off the drugs and drink lately, his work ethic is unmatched to anyone in the music business. Two albums barely 2 months apart, released without record labels, now thats what being a music artist does to adapt to the illegal download-savvy culture of the [...]

Categories: Music, News, Review
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And this is the day, a summer tinged friday pouring down bright beams of heat and entertainment for those who can stop themselves sizzling for an hour or two. Iron Man is now on general release at the cinema and is truly worth it. Ythe only spoiler I shall give is that a fire extinguisher [...]

Categories: Events, Music, News