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Amigo The Devil/Christian Hede/Mike West – Liverpool, Phase One – 3 February 2020

Amigo The Devil/Christian Hede/Mike West – Liverpool, Phase One – 3 February 2020

Posted by | Feb 5, 2020 | ,

A local show sees our travelling gigaholic only need a bus ride into the city centre to catch Amigo The Devil on the Liverpool date of his current tour. Amigo The Devil represents something different from the big lad’s usual gigs, in the form of “murder folk”, something usually more attributed to Nick Cave or his ilk, albeit something I still have a strong passion for. He made my way into the venue as theopening act was just starting his set…

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Voodoo Sioux – ‘Professor Balthazar’s Psychedelic Medicine Show’ (Self-Released)

Voodoo Sioux – ‘Professor Balthazar’s Psychedelic Medicine Show’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Feb 4, 2020 | ,

The Dark Queen doesn’t normally do reviews but when this album dropped into ÜRHQ and we popped it into the stereo, it caught her ear straight away. To be honest, she had never heard of Voodoo Sioux and was surprised when she researched then to find out that they originally formed in the early 90’s but called it a day in 1997. They have just released their latest album ‘Professor Balthazar’s Psychedelic Medicine Show’.

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The Good The Bad And The Zugly – ‘Algorithm & Blues’ (Fysisk Format)

The Good The Bad And The Zugly – ‘Algorithm & Blues’ (Fysisk Format)

Posted by | Feb 4, 2020 | ,

TGTB&TZ will be very familiar to regular ÜR readers, as we have been championing their cause for several years now, fighting their corner long before they even thought about bothering the attentions of the mainstream media – which, of course, they have now done, mainly thanks to singer Ivar Nikolaisen being recruited to the ranks of countrymen Kvelertak. Of course, the Norwegian deathpunks have always been something of a shifting collective of musicians, with various members drifting in and out of other projects such as Kosmik Boogie Tribe and The Devil And The Almighty Blues (both of whom have also featured in these pages).

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Ash – ‘Teenage Wildlife: 25 Years Of Ash’ (BMG)

Ash – ‘Teenage Wildlife: 25 Years Of Ash’ (BMG)

Posted by | Feb 4, 2020 | ,

It is interesting to have your first introduction to a band be a 54-track long album covering 25 years of their music. John Bedard is not sure how he has missed Northern Ireland power poppers Ash all this time, but he’s glad to have been introduced to the band now. Getting introduced after a band has this much material out there is a lot of fun. You get to see a good chunk of the evolution of the band’s style over the years. Also, thanks to this being over so much time there is a nice variety to the album that you don’t get when listening to a more traditional album while never sounding like they have abandoned their sound.

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Desert Colossus – ‘Eyes And Tongues’ (Self-Released)

Desert Colossus – ‘Eyes And Tongues’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Feb 4, 2020 | ,

When you hear the term “stoner rock” it is perhaps understandable that your mind conjures up images of windswept Nevadan mesas rather than those of windmills and landscapes painted by Dutch impressionists. But it is the latter in which, despite their name, Desert Colossus are very firmly rooted, hailing as they do from a picturesque municipality just to the north-west of Amsterdam best known for its, erm, windmill museum and Nobel-winning physicists.

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