Real Scenes.
Real Scenes: Bristol from Resident Advisor on Vimeo. This reminds me of those scene reports you used to get in DIY zines. Here Resident Advisor turns its attention to the brimming underground music scenes operating out of Bristol. Read More
Review of My Best Friend By Tamsin Oglesby
photo credit: mohammadali My Best Friend recently returned to a 2 week stint in the New Theatre, having completed a very successful run there in 2010. It’s about 3 school friends, in their early 30s, who are re-united in a French farmhouse. The play starts off by drawing you into a friendly, convivial atmosphere, as 2 friends put their lives in perspective, in the way any 2 holidaying friends might. The tension begins innocuously, as Bee and... Read More
Porterhouse North
photo credit: bayat I always wondered why the fuck I was finding random bits of clothing,and sometimes human feces on the end of my road. Porterhouse North. Runs the most banging nights of feeding St Pats students bang loads of cheap Red Bull and vodka, then sending them out locked to wreck the streets. They teach our kids you know. Classic vintner as irresponsible drug dealer bizness right at your door step. And we wonder sometimes why we... Read More
Get Your Arses Down Early
The heads over at lovely looking Second Square to None, have this wee reminder for you all to get your arses up and out tomorrow night for the Ghetto Quietly party in Murrays basement. The whole refurbishment buzz down there hasn’t exactly lived up to the promises given by the management, but still, the gigs have been going relatively well. The house system is good once you get up to it – so just use your heads and pop upstairs to... Read More
Jimmy The Hideous Penguin
photo credit: Adam Foster | Codefor Some Community Scratch Games action down at the K Club tomorrow. It’s been a breezy morning and early afternoon here on Soundtracksforthem, pouring over some online reading and listening to this chilled piece of class from Jimmy The Hideous Penguin. who’s playing down in Sweeneys tonight. An interview with him resides over here. Jimmy penguin [it depends what your into] by Jimmy penguin Read More
Bristol Bass Music Scene Report
photo credit: Brizzlebornandbred 2010 was an eventful year for the Bristol underground. Liam from the Liquid Steel Sessions, one of the most forward thinking Soundsystem crews in Sheffield has this report… 2010 saw Easton’s Dubstep wonderkid Joker sign a publishing deal with heavyweight label Universal and a landmark collaboration between some of the local scene’s luminaries and Jamaican Dub engineer Scientist. Curated by Tectonic label... Read More
Sweaty Basement Affairs / Kid Kongo Mix January 2011
If blogging was a shoot out at dawn on the set of a dusty spaghetti western, then I’d be fucked. The lightening quick typing fingers of Sam from CHTM has this one up first. Through out the month of February a cohort of promoters are organizing a sequence of Friday night shin digs in the basement of Murrays which, and don’t hold me to it, is meant to be undergoing something of a refurbishment. First up will be myself this Friday, with... Read More
In Me Ears: Zef Jam Pod Cast and Kaboogie.
First up, Kaboogie have their fifth birthday party next Friday down in that place we love so well, the Fisted Lepper. And what a fucking night it is too, unfortunately I’ll be missing it for the less dank shores of Lisbon. Mungo’s Hi Fi stormed it down in Galway a few weeks ago, brilliant skanking sound system stuff. Scratcha DVA is the guy behind the Grimey Breakfast show on Rinse.fm - a show that’s worked as a life saver... Read More
Ghetto Quitely Vinyl Release Party!!
Oi oi me hearties! Ghetto Quietly are having a vinyl release party in The Good Bits tomorrow night. Expect serious wobble, grime, wonk, ghetto and what ever the fuck else. Check out some of Boabinga’s mixes and shizzle at his blog and mixcloud. The details are over on the Facebook. Full details can be seen over at http://ghettoquietly.com/ Read More
Gig Reviews: Crystal Castles and DJ Sega
photo credit: Jalapeno It was quite by accident that I found myself dragged along to the home coming gig of Toronto’s Crystal Castles on March 29th last. It’s been quite some time since their supposedly accidental release blew up all over Myspace. And apart from enjoying one or two of their remixes, especially of that Klaxon’s track – I’d diverted my eyes from anything carrying their rather obscured visages. Apparently,... Read More
