In the midst of a 2022 festival season now in full swing, Dropout Kings have been hammering out a pretty bloody extensive tour throughout the ÜK with Borders in tow hot off the back from two great slots at Download Festival and TechFest. Tonight’s stop at Manchester’s famous Satan’s Hollow venue brings along In Depths along for support.
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Every now and then an album drops in your lap by an old band you know about, and you know you’d like, but just never got around to actually hearing them. Such is the case for Jim R with The Babys. The album in question is a rather fine vinyl reissue of ‘Anthology’, originally released in 1981 just after the band’s demise the previous year.
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While it has always been posted as a classic rock festival, however, the organisers of next weekend’s Steelhouse have always tried to give younger up and coming bands a first appearance. The first one of these David O’Neill saw was the now rapidly rising Florence Black in 2015 and the high flying Those Damn Crows! This year is no different. Whilst the classic rock element has definitely taken a turn for the better with the addition of Saxon, (following the withdrawal of Ace Frehley -again), there is something for everyone to get their (false) teeth into!
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Language, by it’s very nature, is an invention which has helped mankind communicate with one another. it can be corrupted and pure. It can be interpreted – and misinterpreted in equal measure. It has been invented and re-invented many times over. Many people have created their own languages: L. L. Zamenhof, for example, with Esperanto; J. R. R. Tolkien with elvish; Gene Roddenberry with Klingon… We could go on… But, what has this got to do with an album review, we hear you ask. Well, Monk will tell you…
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The full name of this band – The Chronicles Of Manimal And Samara – may sound like the title of an arcane children’s TV animation, in vein of ‘Masters Of The Universe’, ‘Battle Of The Planets’ or ‘Thundercats’, but there is definitely nothing cartoonish about this sophomore album from the London-based avant-garde duo, even if their sound is a pastiche of various genres stuck together with double-sided sticky tape.
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