Reviews n’ Shit
Yep, after a delay that was really far too long, i got the thing done and its all folded and stapled ready for selling. I think its probably the best one i’ve done so far, and not just because it comes with a lovely green cover and is stapled!
Continue reading ‘Issue 3 of my ‘zine is done and ready to buy!’
Release Show Packaging
Is out now!
Basically the story is this… my band have a new EP, you can listen to tracks and be our friend on our myspace at www.myspace.com/doriangayhc
We play fast paced old school inspired hardcore, with influences from living in Norwich, going to Uni and reading books. I think we are pretty awesome, but then again, I would.
We organised the release and everything ourselves as we are true punx, but i’ve decided releasing music is something i want to do more of. So this is the first of many i hope. It is available on coloured tape, dayglow CD and download. The art was drawn by our drummer Pete and the whole thing looks and sounds pretty awesome. The first few orders will come with the release show packaging that we made, as we didn’t sell all of them at the show.
You can buy the EP at www.doriangay.bigcartel.com
and read more about it at www.doriangay.wordpress.com where there is a full description of what you get and what it looks like, what songs are on it, and everything else you could want to know. We also update that fairly regularly with the comings and goings of the band.
Please buy a copy if you are interested! That way i can afford to put out more stuff and we can print sweet tye dye t-shirts.
Aphex Twin + The Grandstand theme tune.
Happy campers enjoying Kasabian
For the first time in three years I’m not going, as there are only a handful of bands I’d like to see this time round, but all I can say regarding this news, is thank fuck for that. If you take a flag to a festival, you qualify as a cunt. Same goes for the girl who wants attention and mouths the words (about half of them) she knows to the new Kooks song, as the cameramen at the festival desperately zoom in on her whilst sat on the shoulders of the boy that desperately fancies her, but is resigned to being the friend who mops up the tears every time the boy she actually does fancy realises what a twat she is… and waits and quietly weeps every night of the festival whilst listening to heart-wrenching sounds of her having sex with someone she just met in the tent next to his.
The only defence I’ve seen offered for flags is atmosphere and finding your friends/tent. It takes a special breed of twat to go out of your way to obscure peoples views at a gig/festival/whatever. Now I can’t help being quite tall, but that’s not my fault, and realising my height, I steer clear of wearing a top hat. If you need a flag to find your tent after about 10 minutes of setting it up you must be fucking stupid… and the rest is a load of bollocks anyway. Flags are nothing but an irritant, and if you want to stand out in the crowd without doing that much, you are a twat anyway. The flags that attempt to be funny are about as witty as the t-shirts from Primark you see idiots wearing featuring some ‘hilarious’ slogan about how they love drinking and women… e.g. ‘also comes in sober’, often warn by bald middle aged men being dragged round the shops on a depressing Saturday afternoon. Carrying a flag or men wearing dresses or people in stupid wigs or pretty much everything like that designed to make the wearer stand out is fucking stupid. You might get noticed briefly, but it’s not for anything worthwhile is it? Half the crowd might see and think ‘oh look there’s a guy in a dress’, whilst the vaguely sane people will think ‘what a wacky attention seeking twat’ but the real point is, no one wants to be your friend… Continue reading ‘Reading and Leeds to ban flags at the festival this year…’
All of these things aren’t really substantial enough for me to write an entire article on them, so i’ll just put them all together here.
Firstly, i listened to the new Give Up The Ghost… sorry Dead Swans record, all the way through. This now means i can spout off as much as i like about how its either ‘the best hardcore record of all time’ (i actually saw someone say that) or alternatively ‘rubbish, overrated, boring, average…’ whatever. Personally I think people slating it are as equally wrong as those saying how amazing it is. It’s neither. It’s alright, but it’s unlikely I will ever go out of my way to listen to it again. That’s more or less everything i have to say on the matter, as i know how people were waiting with baited breath for me to deliver my all powerful verdict.
Secondly, if there ever was a case for forced steralisation, it’s been dealt a massive boost with the existeance of this…
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/sure_why_not_twihard_tattoo_ga.php
You shouldn’t need anyone to tell you why this is bad.
In other news England won The Ashes- yay! and Spurs continued their 100% start to the season with yet another win over West Ham.
More reviews up later…
Just a short post to tell you all that you should probably buy this. I featured a Lonewolves in my first ‘zine, and they’ve played both of the house shows i have put on, going down a storm both times. This is their first proper release, and their first for TDON and it’s been some time in the making. I’ve had a digital copy of this EP for quite a while now, so i’ve listened to it quite a lot, and its awesome, without a doubt worth the wait. Taking inspiration from bands like Rise and Fall and Integrity, this 5 song EP is UK hardcore at its best.
You can buy it from
http://thirtydaysofnightrecords.bigcartel.com/product/lonewolves-carcaroth-cd
and from the band themselves, visit
This was the first year I had been abroad to an out and out hardcore festival, and obviously also as a direct consequence of that fact, my first time at Fluff Fest. I was a little bit unsure of what to expect. We arrived there on Thursday in the sweltering heat, having had very little sleep the night before and flying and travelling for most of the day. After moaning about the temperature for a while we got set up for the weekend. The camping facilities were pretty good, toilets were of festival standard i.e. not great, but there was a massive water tank near where we were camping, although that was virtual swampland by the Sunday. Overall I must say that this was far better organised- or at least seemed to be from my experience, than many of the major festivals I have been to. There were the odd queues for the food- which for vegan festival food was actually alright, but beyond that, it was more or less without hitches. In terms of who was there, there were a fair share of croosh kids getting their spin kicks out to xRepresentx and the like, a load of stinking crusties, and then the other kind of people that go to hardcore shows which fit into neither of those categories. Add in the odd middle aged pissed up Czech bloke who seems to have wandered in by mistake, fist pumping to some STRAIGHTEDGE rhetoric and it’s a confusing mix. Despite the relative diversity, I personally did not notice any conflict between patrons and generally there was a pleasant atmosphere. Generally I think tolerance was the order of the weekend, as even though views might differ inside- for every person enjoying the cheap beer there was a kid with an X on his hand- people seemed to realise that for the most part we were in this together, a hardcore festival existing with limited influence from the mainstream, as lame as that might be to read.
I don’t often talk about the labels which provide a platform for me to listen to the bands that I like, but I’ve decided to make an exception for a worthy cause. Power Negi Records not only has the best name for a record company ever, but also puts out a load of good shit. Continue reading ‘Power Negi DIY’
I want everyone to stop what they are doing, Converge have a new song on their MySpace. Taken from upcoming album ‘Axe to Fall’ which is out October 20th, the track is called ‘Dark Horse’, and somewhat unsurprisingly, it’s incredible.
Listen now at www.myspace.com/converge
In terms of first impressions, its more technical than I was expecting, especially from the stuff I had heard live and the teasers etc. (view the teaser here… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nkxlq8-gog ) but they have sacrificed none of the utter brutality that they are renowned for. The structure isn’t too out there; it’s a pretty straightforward crushing 3 minute blast, so it’ll be interesting how the rest of the record fits around it. Its original, there’s clear progression, but it still sounds like Converge. How they manage to do this each time round, without dropping below levels of utter brilliance I’m not really sure, but I’m glad they can. The opening 5 seconds made me jump, and the song just gave me a tingling feeling all over. I’m well aware that I’m working myself into a frenzy, but it really is that good.
I can’t wait for the album now, it’s the first time I’ve actually been waiting on a new Converge record, and it’s probably as excited as I’ve been for a new album in recent memory. Expect me to go on about Converge a lot more in the coming months, as they look set to leave every other band trying this in their dust yet again.
So no updates.
But when i come back i will have a round up of Fluff Fest, Reviews/Round ups from Limp Wrist, Fucked Up, Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Brains and all the other gigs i’ve neglected to review properly. Oh and some other shit about books and stuff.
And my band should have an EP people can buy.
For now i leave you with a video of Zero Boys. So fucking good.
Awesome.
