Psych live review
Live Review: The Lucid Dream, Purple Heart Parade & The Goa Express – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, 12.11.2016
Tonight, crowds of psych loyalists have descended on Hebden Bridge for a rather special night of music courtesy of White Rabbit Promotions. The Trades Club is a fantastic venue that can compete with any of those present in the big cities, if not out do them. The light displays enhance the mood ensuring a full …
Say Psych: Live, 2016 Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
It is doubtful, even in the reified levels of psych music fans, that Keita Ise and Njål Clementsen are two names that easily trip off the tongue. Yet trip is exactly what these two guys sent me on at the latest instalment of the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, now in its fifth year, held …
Live: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Leeds 13.06.16
The evening starts with a poem. A short piece that, forgive the romantic in me, channels the vibe of Ginsberg and beautifully set’s the tone for tonight’s ‘happening’. I say happening because the Brian Jonestown Massacre are far from just another band, and with the promise of a three hour set, its fair to say, …
Say Psych: Photo Gallery, Eindhoven Psych Lab, 10-11 June 2016
Day One: Throw Down Bones, Hills, Camera, Temples Day Two: Statue, Black Valleys Meets OWOW, 10000 Russos, Radar Men from the Moon, Flamingods, Gnod, Follakzoid, Goat
Say Psych: Live Review, Karma Fest IV – Eiger Studios, Leeds 29.05.16
The Eiger Studios, perched on the outskirts of town, provided a more than suitable base camp for Karma Leeds fourth annual love in. The venue is lit with the liquid lights of Melt Trip who did a sterling job ensuring that the optical side of things remained tuned into the sonic side of things. Add to …
Live: Cosmosis Festival, Manchester 12.03.16
Myself and the Shoegaze Brigade touched down in Manchester early, ditched the vehicle for safe keeping and headed out of town. Our mission -which we had already chosen to accept – lead us to the Victoria Warehouse and a rendezvous with our newly accredited Cosmic Cadets. Our task, to get them through twelve and half hours …
Live Review: The Oscillation, The Lexington, 09.03.2016
So it’s a new venue for me tonight, and it comes in the form of The Lexington. Baba Yaga’s Hut have put a nice little line up together tonight in the form of Sterling Roswell supporting The Oscillation on their Monographic album launch evening. Sterling Roswell is the brainchild of Roscoe, former drummer of Spaceman …
Say Psych: Live Review: Under the Arches, London Fields Brewery, 05.03.2016
Following the highly successful Fuzz Club Festival last November, we are back at the London Fields Brewery for ‘Under the Arches’ – a new monthly event which brings together record labels to showcase the best from the global psych and underground rock and roll scene. Housed within two brickwork arches, the Light Arch plays host …
Psych Insight: Live, Henge, Electrowerkz, London, 26.2.16
As a band Henge are well named, a unit that is strangely archaic and yet solid; a band whose music batters through to your very soul. On the evidence of its self-titled debut album Henge is also a band that is pretty difficult to categorise being just about ‘post’ everything that you might throw at …
Say Psych: Live Review, Cavalier Song, Electrowerkz, London 26.2.16
Cavalier Song are a band that are new to me this year, but one that I really rate. The band’s debut album, Blezard (read the review here) is a stark and spacious record that has its moments of noise and chaos, but leaves you with the overall impression of dark tranquility. Seeing Cavalier Song for …