Music Writings by CL

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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Nottingham Rock City, 2003. Full Review, Click Here. We are really lucky, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion have toured the UK three times in the last ten months. If you haven’t had the chance to see them, what’s your excuse? There have been plenty of time to make travel arrangements. Well, as you’ll have read here on Drowned In Sound, The JSBX are on top form, their last two reviewed gigs going down a storm. However, by the time the Blues Explosion hit Nottingham, you quickly realise things have changed. Gone is the two hour set, replaced by something more linear and straight to the point. Gone was the finely toned stagetalk, replaced by something seemingly a bit more organic, such as “Jon Spencer Offers His Thoughts On The Prospect Of War With Iraq”/ Despite arriving in Nottingham direct from China, the Blues Explosion didn’t show signs of jetlag, what we did get was a set taking in a lot of older tracks such as the fa...

Seafood - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall, 2002. Full Review, Click Here.

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These four reviews have vanished from existence! Servers, pah. Drowned In Sound Christopher Lloyd Menu.

Jesus Jones - Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

Alec Empire - Northampton Roadmenders, 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

Gold Chains: Gold Chains EP Review, 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

Jesus Jones - New York Slimelight, November 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

Guitar Wolf, New York CBGB's, November 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings, Album Review 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

Muse, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 2001. Full Review, Click Here.

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.