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Paradise Lost/My Dying Bride – Bradford, St George’s Hall – 14 December 2023

Paradise Lost/My Dying Bride – Bradford, St George’s Hall – 14 December 2023

Posted by | Dec 16, 2023 | ,

A first ever journey to Bradford saw DJ Astrocreep take in local powerhouses Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride in what is one hell of a local show, both for the first time outside of festivals. A journey through industrial estates and all manner of side roads made for an unorthodox route into the city – gotta love sat navs, eh? – before taking in the picturesque interior of St George’s Hall, one of Britain’s oldest concert halls at 170 years old! A night of growls and riffs is well and truly on the cards…

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Ian Wilson – ‘Dark Matter’ (Self-Released)

Ian Wilson – ‘Dark Matter’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Dec 14, 2023 | ,

The name Ian Wilson may not mean much to many of our regular readers, but his nickname of ‘Speedo’ may make things a little bit clearer, as it was by this epithet by which he was best known as the lead guitarist for stop-start-stop-start Belfast NWoBHM veterans Sweet Savage, for whom he slung the axe for almost three decades before being ignominiously being kicked out of the band for doing something as stupid as having a heart attack… Well, fuck that for a bag of beans, as while, apart from a few support gigs and festival appearances here and there, his former band mates have been relatively inactive, Wilson has kept himself busy and has now finally, after years of promising to do so, got around to releasing his debut solo album.

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The Blue Lena – ‘Darkwood’ (Severnlands Records)

The Blue Lena – ‘Darkwood’ (Severnlands Records)

Posted by | Dec 14, 2023 | ,

It seems somewhat ironic that Monk should be sitting down to give a first listen to an album called ‘Darkwood’ on the day on which it is announced that the Northern Ireland government announces that it plans to tear down part of one the most iconic dark woods on the planet… but, here we are, with a more than appealing trip into the archives of pure British blues ‘n’ roll courtesy of a band helping to lighten the boss man’s mood and tear up the ÜRHQ speaker system…

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Craggy Collyde – ‘The House Next Door’ (Mai Lei Bel)

Craggy Collyde – ‘The House Next Door’ (Mai Lei Bel)

Posted by | Dec 14, 2023 | ,

Monk lives in a terraced Victorian townhouse. He has done for almost 30 years. When he first moved in, the people who lived in the houses next door, and next door to that, and next door again, were a mixture of elderly folks, most of whom had lived their entire lives in the same house (and would go on to do just that…) and young families just starting out on their journey in life… Of course, as with most inner city areas, gentrification and studentification has changed the demographic quite substantially, and while the young families have started to return to the area, so too have the Air B’nB owners and unscrupulous private landlords also moved in on their respective pieces of the property action… What’s this got to do with the debut album from Slovak/UK transnational punk rock storytellers Craggy Collyde? There’s only one way to find out, isn’t there?

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Crossfire – ‘Switch To Reset’ (Wormholedeath Records)

Crossfire – ‘Switch To Reset’ (Wormholedeath Records)

Posted by | Dec 14, 2023 | , ,

We first came across Dublin thrashers right on the cusp of the Covidications which threw the Überverse into chaos back in March 2020, when they were the last band to play a Belfast stage before the world went into the enforced lockdown that dominated, and ruined, our lives for the next 18 months or so… Now, more than three years later, they have finally gotten around to releasing their debut album – and it is definitely a case of them setting the ‘Switch To  Reset’ with this declarative eight song collection.

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