Primavera Sound 2010

Live Review So this is what happens when you give a bunch of douchebags VIP tickets to Primavera with a free bar all weekend. Id tell you about the bands, sunshine, fun etc but i think it would just be rubbing salt in the wounds of those who missed out on the festival event of [...]

Album Review – Yordan Orchestra

Yordan Orchestra Psych Introduxeon: Bringing Ingredients Together (Megatier Productions) So. Beatmag has been away for a half a year and now we return looking very different but let’s not fuss, eh, let’s just review an album of bizarre psychedelica, instead, to get our hand back in. ‘Psych Introduxeon’ arrived at Beatmag Mansions with no info [...]

Welcome to Hell!

Hellfest 2009 Hellfest is more than just another summer festival; it is an apocalyptic heavy metal experience that makes you feel like you have entered the thunderdome from Mad Max.  Wondering around the dust and rock strewn main arena you encounter oiled up Fuel Girls, forests of perfectly groomed mullets, rusty flaming towers, stunt motorbikes in spherical [...]

Reviews – Games

February 2008 Beatmag Games guru Khalid Mallassi looks at the gaming highlights of 2007 Halo 3 (Xbox 360) I waited 3 years for this game! Three fucking years of waiting, playing Halo 2 online till 2 in the morning and getting fucking ‘pwned’ by 12 year-old from fucking Kentucky or Alabama or some other dumbass [...]

Beatmag News

February 2008 With the indefatigable Blackbelt Jonez IRON MAIDEN Over the years many a plane has hurtled into the ocean with a bundle of birds clogging up its engine. Check out Iron Maiden’s solution – put a fucking scarecrow on your tail and watch the buggers shift out of your flight path quicker than you [...]

Reviews – Games

Beatmag Games guru Khalid Mallassi looks at the gaming highlights of 2007 GTA IV (Xbox 360, PS3) This is it! The game your ass has been waiting for! You can’t live without this game, dawg! Hell nah… you got to get it first day it comes out, unless you some kind of square bitch! That’s [...]

Gallery – Fred Deakin

Fred Deakin is probably best known as one half of electronic outfit Lemon Jelly with Nick Franglen. He’s also a Creative Director and founder of design company Airside who have worked for everyone from Virgin Trains to the pop star Mika (see www.airside.co.uk). It was not always this way. “I once had a job shovelling [...]

Gallery – Jason Manning

Jason Manning’s life as a photographer has now returned to the untempered passion for his art that he began with. “I didn’t have the patience to do painting,” he says, “so when I left Suffolk Art College I borrowed a camera and went round India for six months taking the sort of photographs that I [...]

Gallery – Dan Lish

The Red Light District

Beatmag’s regular technical columnist James Spectrum (AKA Jari Salo of Pepe Deluxe) Johann Christian Andreas Doppler (1803-1853) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist best known for research into the effects of motion on acoustic pitch, known as the ‘Doppler effect’. Doppler knew of the existence of sound waves, and he also knew that the pitch [...]

The Red Light District

Beatmag’s regular technical columnist James Spectrum (AKA Jari Salo of Pepe Deluxe) For the past few months I’ve been working mainly on the cover art and graphics for our videos and live visuals, and as there really haven’t been any deeper Pepe audio explorations, I decided to take some time to answer a few questions [...]

The Wild Reviews

Maverick scribbler Tim Wild reviews… things Top 5 Things I remember about living in Saudi Arabia Being Nicked The houses my friends and I lived in were all detached, but with shared walls separating the boundaries of the gardens. As everything was built on a US-style grid plan, it meant that the nimbler members of [...]