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Don’t you just love those times a seemingly random trail of decisions leads to your discovering a really good band?

I decided to head to Wikipedia, to see what became of Coalesce. I know they had a reunion about ten years ago, and assumed they vanished again, as quickly as they reemerged. I was right. However, while reading that, I clicked onto the page for their vocalist, Sean Ingram. And while there, I read thatContinue reading “Don’t you just love those times a seemingly random trail of decisions leads to your discovering a really good band?”

Wave 1*

Wave goodbye? At my place we’re having a major restructure. It’s one of those where we’re not only changing what we do, but the number of analysts at my band won’t fit into the number the organisation has decided it will need, by 15. It’s dragged on for months, a bit like Lost in theContinue reading “Wave 1*”

Just a quick note to say I am enjoying – if “enjoy” is an appropriate word – the Altars of Grief album, Iris. Google, and the band itself, describes its music as blackened doom! I get the doom, but not the blackened aspect. There are fast drums, but not really monotonous blastbeats. The prevailing mood, I would say,Continue reading

Love, by Gaspar Noé

I wasn’t sure Noe was going to make another film. He shot to prominence with Irreversible, a shattering backwards narrative that forced the audience to confront the grim reality of brutal vengeance before knowing what had led the protagonist to that point, while a woozy disembodied camera floated us uncertainly through Paris from scene toContinue reading “Love, by Gaspar Noé”