LIVE / 230524 EC2A3SQ

From time to time, I would gaze up at the stars after a night shift and think that they looked like a glowing desert, and I myself was a poor child abandoned in the desert… I thought that life was truly an accident among accidents in the universe. The universe was an empty palace, and humankind the only ant in the entire palace. This kind of thinking infused the second half of my life with a conflicted mentality: Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought humans were insignificant, and nothing was worthwhile. Anyway, my life passed day after day accompanied by this strange feeling, and before I knew it, I was old…

Bark presents
Strongroom Bar
120-124 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3SQ
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LIVE / 280224 NW17AN

A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? It’s the end of the road, where there is no more mystery, no more hope. And no more questions to ask, since all the answers have been given. But there is no such place. The Universe is a labyrinth made of labyrinths. Each leads to another. And wherever we cannot go ourselves, we reach with mathematics. Out of mathematics we build wagons to carry us into the nonhuman realms of the world.

Bugbear
The Dublin Castle
94 Parkway, London NW1 7AN
+ The Fiends / Sun Child / Black Swan Event

REVIEW / STAR LANE / STAR CITY / THE SOUNDSHARK

Building intrigue around a band or an artist certainly has become an artform nowadays, with more and more meticulously planned attempts sought after to challenge tried and tested marketing campaigns and traditions. A highly effective method to increase ‘buzz’ around a band is to strive for as an anonymous presence as possible and let the music do the talking. What can make a difference is how far musicians are really willing to push that boundary. We can talk about groups like Sleep Token, and until recently Ghost, who have formed their identity with a grand narrative to accompany their music, and it kept us guessing who were the musicians behind the masks, while marvelling at the work laid before us. 00000000 might be taking it that extra step further.

LIVE / 060419 E11BJ

He instinctively knew that memory and imagination share the same ghost quarters of the brain, that they are like impressions in loose sand, footfalls in snow. Memory normally weighed more, but not here, where the forest washed it away, smoothing out every contour of its vital meaning. Here, he would use imagination to stamp out a lasting foundation that refused the insidious erosions buffeting around him. He would dream his way back to life with impossible facts.

The Empire Never Ended presents
The Urban Bar
176 Whitechapel Rd, Whitechapel, London E1 1BJ 
+ Medium Love / Property

LIVE / 160319 N41BY

You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.

1-2-3-4 presents
The Finsbury
336 Green Lanes, Harringay, London N4 1BY
+ Artificially Yours / Them Things / AKA Matador

LIVE / 220219 SE146TY

The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

Bark presents
Amersham Arms
388 New Cross Rd, London SE14 6TY
+ Uncanny Valley Girls / Junodef / Ead Wood

LIVE / 260119 E11BJ

On this first day of a new century we humbly beg forgiveness and dedicate these last forests of our once beautiful nation to the hope that they will one day return and grace our foul earth. Until that day may God bless these gardens and the brave men who care for them.

The Empire Never Ended presents
The Urban Bar
176 Whitechapel Rd, Whitechapel, London E1 1BJ 
+ Rat the Magnificent

TRACK / CONSTELLATIONS

 

The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

 

 

LIVE / 160818 E16QL

The normal question, the first question is always, “Are these cannibals?” No, they are not cannibals. Cannibalism in the true sense of the word implies an intraspecies activity. These creatures cannot be considered human. They prey on humans. They do not prey on each other; that’s the difference. They attack and they feed only on warm human flesh. Intelligence? Seemingly little or no reasoning ability, but basic skills remain a more… remembered behaviours of ah, normal life. There are reports of these creatures using tools. But even these actions are the most primitive; the use of tools as bludgeons and so forth. I might point out that even animals will adopt the use of tools in this manner. These creatures are nothing but pure, motorized instinct. We must not be lulled by the concept that these are our family members or our friends. They are not. They will not respond to such emotions.

Ten Zero One presents
93 Feet East
150 Brick Ln, Shoreditch,
London E1 6QL
+ Arliston / Spirit Level / Guests

LIVE / 280718 NW17AN

Science? Nonsense! In this situation mediocrity and genius are equally useless! I must tell you that we really have no desire to conquer any cosmos. We want to extend the Earth up to its borders. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. We don’t need other worlds. We need a mirror. We struggle to make contact, but we’ll never achieve it. We are in a ridiculous predicament of man pursuing a goal that he fears and that he really does not need.

Bugbear
The Dublin Castle
94 Parkway, London NW1 7AN
+ Legal Freaks / Vertical Noise / Charmides

TRACK / EXPLORE

 

I can’t touch you, Susan. I can’t touch you as a man could. But I can show you things that I alone have seen. I can’t touch, but I can see. They’ve constructed eyes for me, to watch the show. And ears, so that I can listen in to the galactic dialogue.

TRACK / EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE

 

This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.

LIVE / 241017 SE146TY

North America’s getting soft, patrón, and the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough. We’re entering savage new times, and we’re giong to have to be pure and direct and strong, if we’re going to survive them. Now, you and this cesspool you call a television station and your people who wallow around in it, your viewers who watch you do it, they’re rotting us away from the inside. We intend to stop that rot.

INHOUSENOISE Presents
Amersham Arms
388 New Cross Road, SE14 6TY
+ The Hungry Ghosts / Gaygirl / Rental Wives

VIDEO / ACID BURN

 

The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what’s transitory. It’s human life that is real. I don’t want to frighten you, Emily, but what I’m trying to tell you is that moment of terror is a real and living horror, living and growing within me now, and the only thing that keeps it from devouring me is you.

 

LIVE / 280917 E10LA

What exactly is Genesis? Well, put simply, Genesis is life from lifelessness. It is a process whereby molecular structure is reorganised at the subatomic level into life-generating matter of equal mass. Stage One of our experiments was conducted in the laboratory. Stage Two of the series will be attempted in a lifeless underground. Stage Three will involve the process on a planetary scale.

Jack Rocks
The George Tavern
373 Commercial Rd, London E1 0LA
+ Kandybar & The Hair Razors / Shockpowder / Time for 15

LIVE / 130517 NW18AH

That spring, we were all watching the events of space and wondering what the final effect would be. Astronomers argued over theory while engineers got pretty excited about variables and magnetic fields. Mystics predicted earthquakes and the end of life as we knew it. When the effect came it was almost unnoticed because it happened to such a small and insignificant form of life.

Club Kamikaze
Proud Camden
The Horse Hospital, Stables Market,
Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AH
+ YipiOK / Diesel Drums / Mollys Daggers / Dirt Royal

LIVE / 010417 SE146AS

Polydichloric euthimal! Those stupid bastards are taking polydichloric euthimal! It’s an amphetamine. Strongest thing you ever saw. Makes you feel wonderful. Makes you do ten hours work in six hours, that kind of nonsense. Especially manual labor. It makes you work like a horse. The army tested it a few years ago. It made the men work alright… then it made them psychotic. It takes a while, ten maybe eleven months… and then it fries your brain.

New Cross Inn
323 New Cross Rd, London SE14 6AS
+ The Buddha Pests / Katalina Kicks / Ton of Feathers

TRACK / ACID BURN

 

This isn’t one of you text-book exercises, Mr. Jennings. This is an experiment in biological warfare, or hadn’t you noticed? That organism is potentially the greatest breakthrough in weapons research since man split the atom. What we do here will affect the balance of world power! Of course there are lives at stake – whole nations, in fact. And that’s far more important than a handful of people in this small town. And that is my cross to bear, Mr. Jennings. Now carry out your orders.

LIVE / 030317 E16QL

An embassy for an intelligence beyond ours. A shape of some kind for something that has no shape. Your children will be born in a world of two suns. They will never know a sky without them. You can tell them that you remember when there was a pitch black sky with no bright star, and people feared the night. You can tell them when we were alone, when we couldn’t point to the light and say to ourselves – ‘There is life out there.’

Ten Zero One presents
93 Feet East
150 Brick Ln, Shoreditch, London E1 6QL
+ Hot Gothic / Daughters of God / Legpuppy / Marty Broke My Heart