Featuring The Damned’s rhythm section of Rat Scabies and Paul Gray, alongside songwriters and co-frontmen Sean Elliott and Alfie Agnew, both veterans of the Southern California punk rock scene, UK/US supergroup Professor and the Madman this week release their fifth album ‘Dreamworld’, their first in six years.
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Probably best known as frontman of post-punk legends Bauhaus, Peter Murphy is also a prolific solo artist with numerous solo albums under his bat wings. This month Cadiz Music, in association with Murphy’s own Silver Shade label, release two more volumes of the ‘Peter Live’ series of archival live recordings, with these ones visiting performances a decade apart 1990 and 2000.
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We’re staying on our home turf for our second selection of the weekend, as these Belfast bruisers round off the month with this latest slice of harmonic heaviness.
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Formed in 2023, Concrete Hyena is a collaboration between vocalist Jay Butler, formerly of ‘90’s underground punk heroes Realtv and post-millennial major mabel USA chancers Grand Theft Audio, and producer Jim Davies, original guitarist for the fledgling dance act Prodigy as well as being guitar slinger of Pitchshifter.
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Our latest selection marks something of a turning back of the clock for Monk, as he used to hang out with singer Al Gilmore and a bunch of other like-minded but otherwise isolated rockers and metalheads in the sleepy seaside town of Carrickfergus. In fact, the boss used to manage one of the bands he fronted – Nineties hopefuls Abandon, who managed to get coverage in the likes of Kerrap! and Metal Hammer (although that was probably more down to the connections forged by one Steve “Wee Bollox” Strange). Now, some three decades after their life journeys followed divergent paths, they find themselves back on the same rock ‘n’ roll highway with a new, and heavier (who said you have to grow old gracefully?), alt-rock reincarnation of one of Monk’s aul chum’s subsequent projects:
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