Music Writings by CL

Seafood, Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

Full article here. It’s been a while since we were promised a full length 2 hour  Digital Hardcore Video , and the burning question is, “is it worth the wait?” Yes and No. For it is titled  Digital Hardcore Videos , but it should be called  Atari Teenage Riot and maybe a couple of other friends.  We get 30 tracks, 23 of which are related to  Atari Teenage Riot , be it  Nic Endo’s  blistering  White Heat ,  Hanin Elias’s  Tie me to the wall ,  Alec Empire’s  Low on Ice’ , or of course,  Atari Teenage Riot  as a band, treating us to tracks from all three albums. They start off colourful, anarchic, computer aided and abetted D.I.Y style eyeballfeasts, but by the time the videos have moved into the  60 Second Wipeout  era, their popularity had grown, and it shows in the videos, which go very slick indeed. We get only one  EC8OR  track,  Cocaine Ducks , which is a bit of a cop out, seeing...

Digital Hardcore Video's - Review, 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

Mika Bomb - Wolverhampton Little Civic, 2001.

http://drownedinsound.com/news/2312 close neighbour to V/Vm has disappeared in Ibiza on July 8th, Jeffrey Hodgson is 39 years old but has severe learning difficulties and severe epilepsy. His family are very concerned about his safety and continue to spend time over in Ibiza looking for their son (so far to no avail). Unfortunately the British foreign office have refused to offer any financial support to the family telling his parents who are now both retired to either fundraise themselves or take out a loan. Whenever I was out and around locally I always used to run into him or see him around, so it is with this in mind right now that I am offering people on the list the chance to purchase copies of the following long out of print V/Vm releases. I have 5 copies of the following releases available to those people who make me a reasonable offer for them. ‘VVMT0001- Up-Link Data Transmissions (12") ‘VVMT0002- Privileged Frames For Reference (12")’ ‘VVMT0005- Chart Runne...

V/vm - Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2001. Click Here For Full Review

The Beta Band - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall, 2001.

Super Furry Animals, Birmingham Academy 2001. Click here for full review.

Birmingham Student Guide, NME, 2000.

Patric Catani - Hitler 2000 (Album Review), 2000. 

Brassy - Nottingham Rock City, 2000.

2000 Festivals Round-Up.

Dilated Peoples, The Platform (Album Review) 2000.

Hanin Elias - In Flames Remix EP Review, 2000.

Turn - Check Your Ears EP, 2000

Sleater Kinney, All Hands On The Bad One (Album Review), 2000.

Brassy / Idlewild - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall, 2000.

Wilt / Seafood - Dudley JB's, 2000.

Stella Browne - Every Woman Needs Love (Single Review), 2000.

Ian Brown - Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 1999.

Death In Vegas, Warwick University, 1999.

Mount Florida 'Stealth' EP Review, 1999.

Death In Vegas - Interview, 1999.

Therapy? - Sheffield Leadmill 1999 / Suicide Pact, You First Album Review.

Supergrass, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 1999.

Public Enemy, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 1999.

Reading Festival, 1999.

Beastie Boys In The Round, Birmingham NEC 1999.

Super Furry Animals - Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 1999.

 Catatonia, Wolverhampton Civic Hall 1999.

Sebadoh, Oxford Zodiac 1998.

Placebo - Wolverhampton Civic Hall 1998.

Mansun - Wolverhampton Civic Hall 1998. Gay Dad Support.

Manic Street Preachers, Trentham Gardens, Stoke-On-Trent 1998.  

Reading Festival, 1998. ---Various photographs from Reading Festivals throughout the 90's.