Tag: synthwave
Master Boot Record – Amsterdam, Melkweg – 31 October 2024
It was the spookiest night of the year and Jase W decided to eschew traditional dress-up tomfoolery to get himself back to his second home in Amsterdam, Melkweg, this time for some chiptune metal goodness in the form of Master Boot Record, once again another single band show in Melkweg’s UP stage on the top floor.
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Perturbator/HEALTH – Manchester, Academy 2 – 16 November 2022
Evidently, Jase W absolutely zero sympathy for his own levels of exhaustion as he had just got back from a week away in the Netherlands and followed it up with an evening of mind blisteringly heavy darksynth. Perturbator’s delayed ‘Excess’ tour is finally here with HEALTH, who blew our resident gigaholic away earlier this year at Manchester’s White Hotel, in support. Sadly for the ÜK leg of the tour, Author & Punisher will not be joining which Jase was a bit gutted about – but he can’t have it his way all the time we suppose!
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Carpenter Brut/Sierra – Manchester, Academy 2 – 4 November 2022
Carpenter Brut are one of Jase W’s “never miss” bands, both in always seeing them when they’re live in the ÜK but also consistently writing some of the best *heavy* synthwave around. Fusing metal, synthwave and ’80s B-movie horror into their live show, it’s quite the experience to say the least; they were touring in support of their ‘Leather Terror’ album this time round and bringing Sierra along for the ride.
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Lebrock/Droid Bishop – Manchester, The Bread Shed – 3 November 2022
Just as he was about to head to the venue for the show, Jase W heard that unfortunately headliners Magic Sword had to drop out due to a medical emergency – but the show’s still going ahead. After having a brief chat with Shaun from Lebrock, he found that they’ve opted to push back the stage times rather than going early and finishing early.
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Imminence/Novelists/Port Noir – Manchester, Rebellion –
Continuing his rather busy week, Jase W returned to his usual Manchester gig haunt of Rebellion. Tonight this is host to Imminence supported by two of his favourite bands, Novelists and Port Noir so it’s a bit different to a lot of the other shows he’d been to recently where he was seeing and hearing the supports for the first time…
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Perturbator – ‘Lustful Sacraments’ (Blood Music)
DJ Astrocreep always finds it immensely interesting to hear when an artist takes a big step in a different direction from where their previous musical work has been, as in the case of Perturbator. While James Kent, as Perturbator is known off stage, has a background as a black metal guitarist, synthwave is a pretty big departure from there and there’s always an interest in whether the artist can amalgamate successfully the various different influences they have, whether they continue with an entirely retro feel or, as per ‘New Model’, his 2017 EP, take a big step in quite a different direction from his roots as this particular incarnation or previous ones.
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Joywave – ‘Possession’ (Hollywood Records)
Joywave are someone Jase Walker got to see a while back supporting PVRIS in Manchester’s Gorilla venue and left quite an impression on our man with their stylish synthpop music. They announced part way through the set amongst other things that they had a forthcoming album and our bai felt quite privileged in that je was the one tasked to review it!
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L.A. Takedown – ‘Our Feeling Of Natural High’ (Castle Face)
While he’s still a relatively new contributor here at Über Rock, it seems Jase Walker pigeon-holed himself a small bit for having a bit of a thing for anything remotely synthy; and in our defence we’re not wrong. So, when something lands in our review box that’s labelled as “guitar driven synth pop”, our boy is all over that, which is what brought L.A. Takedown’s ‘Our Feeling of Natural High’ to his attention…
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