Glastonbury 2008

Long after the fuss has died down, as the Winter sets in, we’ve decided to treat you to a little slice of Summer with the ultimate Glastonbury account from our man in the field, Caspar Gomez

Ever read an account of Glastonbury that got it right? They’re almost always some jaded London hack giving a drab concert review of the Pyramid and Other stages, concentrating on a load of samey indie bands, interspersed with comments about mud, whether there is any or not. These hacks, and I see them year after year, spend most of their time in the hospitality area where they’re also camped, which is basically Camden/Shoreditch transposed to Somerset, so they can sit about chatting to the same people they always chat to in the same mildly cynical way, as if they’re really a bit above/outside everything. In the meantime, the rest of us are spread over a vast area, enjoying one billion kinds of mayhem in an entirely different universe from The Fratellis. The best accounts of Glastonbury are badly written blogs all over the ‘net wherein wide-eyed enthusiasts let their amazement take control whilst recounting what they and their mates got up to. Who cares about the Kings of Leon? I mean, really, if it’s all about The Editors live in a field, why don’t you fuck off to Reading/Leeds and eat shit-burgers and drink piss with the NME massive. Anyway, enough ranting, here’s my Glasto for you: (more…)

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Jerry Lee Lewis live at the 100 Club London

The original ‘Hell raiser’ returns to London for a couple of cliquey dates to intimate crowds of rock and roll yuppies: After all, who else could afford the £100+ tickets for Jerry to show us that he still has it, albeit in a doddery kind of way?! (more…)

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May 2009

Saints Row 2 (Xbox 360, PS3)

Fuck GTA IV! That’s right, let’s get that shit outta the way right up front. Yeah, Saints Row 2 is like GTA IV, except for the part where it’s not boring as fuck! (more…)

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Lo Fidelity Allstars
How To Operate With A Blown Mind (Skint, 1998)

The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.

This month Guy Oddy time-travels back a decade to the age of big beat… (more…)

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May 2009

Beatmag’s rundown of the best to throw your hard-earned money at.

Beatmag Album of the Issue

Golden Bug
Hot Robot (Gomma) (more…)

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May 2009

SINGLE OF THE ISSUE

Nightjar
The Moth Trap EP (Toad) (more…)

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Thomas H Green heads out on a booze-laden promotional beano in Tennessee

On Tuesday I received a phone call asking if I’d like to go to Jack Daniel’s birthday barbecue in Lynchburg, Tennessee, on Thursday. Since I live on the south coast of the UK, this was rather nice but unexpected. Some people I’d heard of were going to play music too. Sounded like fun. Thus it was that I found myself above the Atlantic less then 48 hours later watching Matthew Broderick in a film called ‘Diminished Capacity’, a contender for the naffest flick of recent years (although I’ve since seen ‘Death Sentence’ with Kevin Bacon which is possibly even worse). If the in-flight films are on overhead screens they’re always edits of the naffest ‘family’ fare but who cares – beer, food, reading and bad movies for eight hours is a wonderful break from the normal demands of life. (more…)

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Gary Numan

Although David Bowie is well-known as the artist who changed his image time and time again, Gary Numan has also been a pop chameleon: from alien-chic to Mad Max pastiche; from white-faced/blue haired mannequin to white-suit with red bow-tie gent; and from blonde cyberpunk to current industrial Goth. Numan was born in 1958, London, his father a baggage handler at Heathrow airport, a psycho-geographic space that would have enormous influence for him. From an early age, Newman possessed an enviable ability to know exactly what he wanted from life; he knew that music and planes were central to his plans. (more…)

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Bomb The Bass interview

On listening to Future Chaos you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s another in a long line of tidily produced electronic albums dropped by a twenty-something bedroom producer this year, but in fact what you’re hearing is the latest chapter in the rather long story of Bomb The Bass. (more…)

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