Author: Team Uber

VIDEO OF THE WEEK – O.R.k.

Monk’s latest choice is a true visual treat, as well as an audio one of course, as this prog rock amalgamation of the talents of ex-Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin and King Crimson’s Pat Mastelotto round out their busy year with the final instalment of a triptych of single releases to preface the arrival of their latest album early in the new year.

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The Über Rock Christmas Singles Club – Jingle All The Feckin’ Way

Well, it’s inevitably come to that time of year, when we all pretend to be nice to each other and smile inanely while granny presents you with another inanely bright pair of socks that are the size you wore when you were six before getting smashed on the eggnog and Buckie and proclaiming “what a nice man” that bloke with the big ears on the telly is and then collapsing face first into the remains of the sherry trifle, while granda somehow manages to set his party hat on fire and the kids complain the Xbox games you scrimped and saved to download are “so last year” and retreat to their bedrooms in a huff… Well, never fear: the Singles Club is here to save the day and provide the soundtrack to while away the hours it takes to incinerate the overpriced turkey and figure out how many days you can survive on the leftovers… all washed down with the bottle of that cheap supermarket brandy you swore was for the pudding:

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DOOL/Lifeless Past – Amsterdam, Melkweg – 19 December 2024

This is it folks, the final show for Jase W this year to wrap up 2024 before he signs off from work until the new year and get stuck into far too much booze and stodgy food on my return trip to Blighty. What a year it’s been and what a way to end it in true Dutch style with absolutely fucking awful weather and one of the Netherlands’ most interesting up and coming bands, DOOL.

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