Blackbird Festival – Cardiff Castle – 27 June 2026
By David O’Neill Cardiff Castle rarely feels as alive as it did for the inaugural Blackbird...
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Bakken ‘Consent To Deception’ (Self-Released)
By Monk Once upon a time – well, in the early part of the last decade – Bakken were one of the...
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CJ Wildheart ‘DEViL’ (Devilspit Music)
The artist by the nom de plume of CJ Wildheart should need absolutely no introduction to not only regular readers of this here always ever so humble website but lovers of classy rock ‘n’ roll music as a whole, as he was one of the similarly-monickered co-founders of one of perhaps the singularly most recognized and notorious glunk pop acts to have emerged from the Über Kingdom in the past two generations. After a nigh on 40-year interaction with the band that has experienced more stops and starts than a rain-sodden TT race, the firebrand sauceror (sic) has just unleashed his eighth, and perhaps most visceral and vital, solo album on an unsuspecting Überverse…
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Glenn Kingsmore ‘Cairn Holy’ (Casualty Records)
Best known as the drummer with Belfast punk legends/veterans (whichever term they prefer to use) The Defects, this latest solo album, his fifth, is a completely different prospect from what one might expect given its creators’ background and pedigree, but at the same time what one should expect from a solo offering, in that it treads different waters from those in which he normally swims…
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Corpse Water ‘Something In The Water’ (GrindScene Records)
If there is one man who has stood over the Northern Ireland grind scene (sic) like a colossus it is Pete Clarke. For the past decade the frontman of Strangle Wire, and before that Zombified and the brief industrial death spin-off The Obscene Machine, he has devoted almost his entire life to this most extreme of metal sub-genres, not least through his record company, via which he has not only profiled local acts from this particular wee corner of the Überverse but also championed genre legends such as Basement Torture Killings and Foetal Juice. Now, he has once again emerged from the darkened sewers of his hometown of Lisburn with his latest foul infestation of our senses and sensibilities…
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