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onions for eyeballs: TECTONICS 2014
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Tuesday, 16 September 2014. St Andrew’s in the Square/City Halls/The Old Fruitmarket. All photos courtesy of Alex Woodward ( www.crimsonglow.co.uk. Ultra-minimalist precipice-of-silence viola piece, offer deeply meditative, engaging experiences. Wavetrain - David Behrman, Christian Wolff, Takehisa Kosugi and Ilan Volkov. One of Sarah Kenchington's creations (the machine, not the man). TUR, who produce. And then there’s Takehisa Ko...
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onions for eyeballs: December 2011
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Friday, 9 December 2011. An assortment of things that have pleased me greatly: part 1. Sammy Davis Jr, Circle, Tool, Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar, Olivier Messiaen, Alim Qasmiov and Oum Kalthoum – and a considerable amount of time spent with 2008’s Who Killed Amanda Palmer? Of whom, possibly, more anon). Handy-dandy accompanying Spotify playlist: Onions for Eyeballs' Best of 2011. THE BOOK OF KNOTS – GARDEN OF FAINTING STARS. Was very muc...
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onions for eyeballs: September 2014
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Tuesday, 16 September 2014. St Andrew’s in the Square/City Halls/The Old Fruitmarket. All photos courtesy of Alex Woodward ( www.crimsonglow.co.uk. Ultra-minimalist precipice-of-silence viola piece, offer deeply meditative, engaging experiences. Wavetrain - David Behrman, Christian Wolff, Takehisa Kosugi and Ilan Volkov. One of Sarah Kenchington's creations (the machine, not the man). TUR, who produce. And then there’s Takehisa Ko...
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onions for eyeballs: OF BABIES, BELLS & BLUES – a 2014 best-of thingy
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Thursday, 1 January 2015. OF BABIES, BELLS and BLUES – a 2014 best-of thingy. Obake – Mutations. Finds Obake blossoming into a sharp-fanged and gloriously brutal metallic unit with just enough experimental leanings to keep things unpredictable. Originally published in Rock-a-Rolla. Three tracks of extended, spiky, minimalist groove. Super-lean and scarily efficient. Most thrilling of all, it sounds like they took the choppy chuk...Dylan...
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onions for eyeballs: July 2009
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Monday, 27 July 2009. MO' MOGWAI. WHY? IN WHICH I MEET STUART BRAITHWAITE AND INSERT A PROBE INTO HIS BRAINBOX. Perhaps the only band ever to appear in both this magazine and Sex and the City. Mogwai have been pursuing their singular muse – often elegant, sometimes crushing – since 1995. On the eve of the release of their latest album, The Hawk is Howling. Of course, the flipside is that not being bulletproof carries its own dangers, i&...
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onions for eyeballs: Those pleasing sounds of 2012, in full and unabridged
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Sunday, 27 January 2013. Those pleasing sounds of 2012, in full and unabridged. I know, I know. Year-end roundup season has long since passed. This blog is late. Late late late. Oh so very late. For reasons that will become apparent. Not that I post very often anyway. Indolence is the watchword of Onions for Eyeballs. Best get to the point, then – below are my. Ten favourite albums of 2012, in reverse order. Kayo Dot – Gamma Knife.
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onions for eyeballs: June 2009
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Wednesday, 24 June 2009. So 2009 has barely begun, but it looks like we have a winner: Roman bass/drums/sax trio Zu are waltzing off with the album of the year prize. Carboniferous. 8217;s natural habitat is the dancefloor/moshpit/boudoir. To reiterate: album of the year. No lie. 160;(originally published in Rock-a-Rolla. Finds bassist Massimo Pupillo backstage, accompanied by a vast bowl of gratis curry and the room-shaking soundchecks...
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onions for eyeballs: November 2009
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Tuesday, 24 November 2009. JUST AN IRREGULAR GUY. WHY I HATE…4/4. I blame capitalism. As a tiny urchin I’d insist upon watching The Money Programme. To the chagrin of my staunchly socialist dad. Then, as now, I had nary a stock or share to my name – but I did have a yen for the theme tune. Half-inched from the 1964 movie The Carpetbaggers. That said, I don’t really. Music is surely an escape from servitude, not a continuation. Things to...
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onions for eyeballs: October 2009
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Wednesday, 21 October 2009. NEUTRON MAKOTO OVERDOSE FROM BEYOND ALPHA CENTAURI. Aka some scribblings about Acid Mothers Temple). CID MOTHERS TEMPLE and THE MELTING PARAISO UFO. RYSTAL RAINBOW PRYAMID UNDER THE STARS. CID MOTHERS TEMPLE and THE MELTING PARAISO UFO. MYTH OF THE LOVE ELECTRIQUE. Japan’s favourite workaholic intergalactic psychognomic minstrels are back! Gong homage or the fearsome. Starless and Bible Black Sabbath. NEUTRON...
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onions for eyeballs: February 2011
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The rabid blatherings of a fool, father and occasional music writer. Monday, 28 February 2011. MOGWAI: A REVIEWMINISCENCE (REVIEWTROSPECTIVE? HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE, BUT YOU WILL. In the NME, October 1997. It spoke of “sprawling, reckless music” that was “intensely beautiful” yet contained “searing riff-madness any self-respecting death metal band would kill for”. Who could resist such a prospect? Deep, instant love. The Hawk is Howling. Specifically with the way that ‘I’m Jim Morrison’...After the...