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Interview: Yo Majesty

Posted by Jamesr on October 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

photo credit: gretchen robinette Towards the end of 2006, the infectious shout of ‘fuck that shit’ in Club Action and a banging party delivery tore it up across the net in dozens of re-versionings aimed at getting asses on the floor. Trust me, butch and queer positive as hell, Yo Majesty are one of the most explosive live acts you can expect to see. A riotous response to scene misogyny in the more sexually charged corners of modern... Read More

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Bounce Back and Forth

Posted by Jamesr on September 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Saw Yo! Majesty smash down it down in Toronto again tonight, as two of the notorious three and Taxlo Dj Chris O passed through for the first time since their NXNE show case. It seems the last time they came through one of them was refused border crossing due to “habitually driving without a license,” well she was present and semi-nude on this occasion – the others absence went uncommented on. The new material sounds as rough and... Read More

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Interviews

The Child of Prague Stares At The Workers.

Interview With Alex Foti: Mayday Had Become A Funeral.

photo credit: cinocino In a special themed issue of Green Pepper, Foti and the Chain Workers Collective sketched a very attractive understanding of the work discipline of contemporary capitalism. In their understanding, society had found itself in a situation of profound disjuncture with our working pasts – life today was defined by contingent employment rather [...]

Don’t Mention Art Rock.

Photo is copyrighted to Lindsay Foley Sometimes a piece of art can represent more than just itself. Through how it intertwines with what’s around it, it can take on new meanings. You might be able to say the same of Estel. One of the photo sliders on their Myspace sails through a montage of gig [...]

More Words On Zines..

photo credit: donkeycart I said I’d do this some time ago, but never got around to it. Well, after the leap you can read the full text of the interviews carried out over email for the piece based around the recent independents day. Simon Reynolds has published the roughs of his own interviews on zines [...]

This is an interview with a band called Adebisi Shank

photo credit: lauranolanphotography Downstairs in Frazers, Adebisi Shank are celebrating the launch of the their debut album, it’s a pure drunken tantrum of a night and from about 10pm the venue looks and feels mentally over-subscribed. It’s all faces rammed in arm pits, and bodies reluctantly pressing against each other. The guy in front of [...]

The Lads From St Saviours.

photo credit: the justified sinner If you’ve ever entered the IFI at peak time, you’ll notice there’s a lot of people just standing around, standing around and waiting, for dates and friends. So, ambling over and interrupting several of the more male looking inpatients waiting with the question “are you one of the lads from [...]