Meet The Loveless – the garage rock band fronted by Soft Cell’s Marc Almond along with Neal X, formally of Sique Sigue Sputnik and Adam Ant’s band, augmented by Iggy Pop’s touring rhythm section, Mat Hector and Ben Ellis, plus keyboard maestro James Beaumont. Featuring songs that originally inspired them in their teenage years, plus a couple of originals, ‘Meet The Loveless’ is their debut full length album.
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Steve Harley has announced the rescheduling, with immediate effect, of the Steve Harley ‘Come Up And See Me and Other Stories’ shows that were scheduled to take place in March, April, May and June, whilst he recovers from ill health.
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The very fact that this debut album from newcomers Rough Justice is released on the label owned and curated by fellow Sheffield hardcore heavyweights Malevolence should speak volumes in itself about what to expect within its grooves. And, indeed, your faith in those expectations would not be in vain (sic) as it more than lives up to the anticipated level of fulfilment which this collection necessarily brings, as Monk elaborates…
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Ladeez and Gentlegerms – they are BACK! They are glitterati’s glitterati! They are the high fashion elite’s elite! They are the influencers’ influencers! They are designers’ designers of dreams! They are The Dynamite Playboys: The Sleaze Fuhrer, The Sex Toy, The Thunder Mechanic and The Beat Commando. They are all about sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll… oh, and the candy. No, make that THE CANDY! In all it’s delicious sticky and sweet variations. Monk begs for, and is rewarded with, a sample…
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Monk has to admit that he didn’t pay much attention to west Belfast’s The Adventures back in the (hey)day of the late Eighties, when they were bothering virtually every radio station on the airwaves with their brand of what he would have described back as “mullet music”. Despite such almost incessant airplay over the period of three or four years, the band never really enjoyed major chart success, bothering the lower reaches to the top 20 on just the one occasion, instead motoring along nicely before officially calling it a day first in 1993 then reuniting and knocking it on the head again in 2018, with frontman Terry Sharpe following a more blues-trodden solo path. Over the past five and a bit years, the band have got back together on an intermittent basis for the occasional show here and there, primarily on the Irish festival circuit (such as it is), so their latest foray onto the live stage, at a venue just a few minutes’ walk from ÜRHQ, seemed the perfect excuse to simultaneously kick off the new gigging year and make amends for those oversights of years gone by…
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