Supersonic Festival 2010

Supersonic Festival 2010 – Preview (22-24th Oct 2010)

This weekend is the 8th annual Supersonic festival, in Birmingham’s Custard Factory. The lineup is quite wonderful, featuring a smorgasbord of delicacies such Napalm Death, Tweak Bird, Melt Banana, Drumcorps, Swans and the wonderful Demons (from my home town of Portsmouth).  A full platter of pics and review coming next week but for now, in the words of the organisers…. Capsule the [...]

Hellfest 2010 – In Photos

Hot on the heels of Primavera, Beatmag decided to keep in European and take in the sights, sounds and smells of Hellfest. After last years introduction to Europe’s premiere metal festival we were salivating at the thought of getting back to Clisson, and the vests were being substituted for a whole lotta leather. And with [...]

Reviews – Games

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!

Beatmag News

Festival Special With the indefatigable Blackbelt Jonez Tis the season to get wasted, tra la la la la etc. Now, unless you’re super rich and unemployed (and therefore probably a dealer) then you’ll be finding the arrival of lots of new festivals gets your mind all twisted up, thinking ‘great’, ‘annoying’ and ‘hmmm’ in a [...]

Beatmag News

June 2008 Airport As if they weren’t already enough expensive distractions at airports, EMI have announced a partnership with Medianywhere which will enable pasty holiday makers to spunk the last of their coinage on any last minute tunes they’d forgotten to copy onto their MP3 players, meaning that any potential trauma involving an Aya Napa [...]

Gallery – Michael Brimmer

If you ask Michael Brimmer what he likes, what inspires him, you’re in for the duration. “Here goes,” he says, “Femme fatales, acid house hues, images that scream, honesty, sleep deprivation, stale cigarette smoke, vintage glasses – but not sunglasses, interesting mustaches, odd encounters, jazz from bebop to mystic fusion, people who keep things moving, [...]

Gallery – Mark Hooley

Gallery – Adam Oehlers

Adam Oehlers studied visual communication at the University of South Australia. During this course he majored in Illustration and puppetry. These two art forms complemented his love of story telling and in 2001 he formed a puppetry troupe named ‘Mr. Fortune’. After two years of freelance illustration and puppetry shows in Adelaide he moved to [...]

The Red Light District

Beatmag’s regular technical columnist James Spectrum (AKA Jari Salo of Pepe Deluxe) Uncannily many writings of ancient people worldwide tell the same story, that of decline from an original age of imagination and hope. Mysterious artifacts and sites around the world have been created with help of knowledge and culture more advanced than our current [...]

Wild Thoughts

from the mind of Tim Wild So, here’s my question: What’s wrong with you? Seriously. No – don’t start that. Never mind what’s wrong with me. We’re not talking about me. We’re talking about you. YOU. It’s home truths time. Realising your responsibilities, facing the music, taking it on the chin and asking for seconds [...]

Devil’s Advocate

Train Journeys Where Beatmag Defends The Indefensible Blackbeltjonez makes his unlikely claim for the joys of railway travel in Great Britain There’s something about being an infrequent train-traveller that makes any potential trip a treat. The dormant journeyman in me is awoken, as when one drops friends off at the airport and shares their holiday-buzz [...]