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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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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The inferno that recently raged across Europe was continuing and Jase W once again was praying for some decent level of air conditioning tonight because he wasn’t keen on another trip home looking like he’d just completed an Iron Man challenge. Anyway, that’s besides the point, tonight he was ticking off a massive bucket list band for himself, American Football! Not just that but it was at one of his favourite venues in the country too, Paradiso.
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On 1 July 1916, one of the bloodiest and most horrific single battlefield engagements in the bloody and horrific history of mankind began. By the end of the day, on the British side alone, more than 57,000 men had been killed or injured. When the battle finally finished, four-and-a-half months later, it is estimated that more than a million men had lost their lives. It has been argued that they died in vain, as the Battle Of The Somme failed to meet the objectives of the British and French commanders, and the war raged on for another two years, costing millions of more lives… Today, as the world marks the 110th anniversary of that fateful day, so do we, as we share a selection of songs which recall, and retell, the sacrifice made by so many who laid down their lives on the bloodied, muddy fields of northern France (and elsewhere across Europe) more than a century ago.
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The Brighton pop punk quartet will be sharing #AllThatRemains when they release their new album at the beginning of October, but in the meantime they are similarly sharing that sense of #Dislocation we all feel (some more than others, it has to be admitted) from time to time.
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