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Pop Will Eat Itself – New Noise Designed By A Sadist (2011)

5 September, 201414 October, 2016 Indie, Record 0

With their last and most successful general release album released in 1994 (Dos Dedos Mis Amigos), it is a long time between releases for

Archive: Axiom (2014)

20 August, 201429 March, 2017 Film, Industrial, Prog, Record 0

Archive are a pretty superb combination of electronica, trip-hop, with progressive elements, something like a fusion of 65daysofstatic and Portishead. To say that they’ve

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, 11 May 2013

19 May, 20136 May, 2017 Live 0

In my much younger days, like many others with simultaneous libertarian and socialist convictions, a gravitation towards the political side of punk rock had

Midge Ure, Melbourne, 19 April 2013.

22 April, 201329 March, 2017 Live, Pop 0

Midge Ure is a musician who shouldn’t require much of an introduction. He’s travelled from from the Rich Kids in the 1970s, to Visage,

Simple Minds, Devo, The Church: Palais, November 30

3 December, 20127 May, 2017 Live 2

Among the aging fans of good eighties music the prospect of The Church, Devo, and Simple Minds all at one show came with some

The Sisters of Mercy, Corner Hotel, Melbourne, March 1st

12 March, 201228 April, 2017 Goth, Live 0

The “industrial groove machine” known as The Sisters of Mercy recently performed twice in Melbourne at the Corner Hotel and apparently also at the

The Damned, January 20, 2012, Melbourne

27 January, 20127 May, 2017 Live, Punk 0

In previous reviews the general superiority of Billboard as a venue has been mentioned and they remain applicable here; the light is better, the

The Clouds, The Wonder Stuff, Jesus Jones: August 19, Melbourne

26 August, 201110 May, 2017 Live 0

The Clouds, The Wonder Stuff and Jesus Jones make a very good combination of acts, although holding the event at The Palace was a

Gary Numan and Severed Heads, Forum, Melbourne, May 14, 2011

15 May, 201110 May, 2017 Industrial, Live 0

The Forum is one of Melbourne’s many stylish venues. Built in the 1920s it has a baroque level of art nouveau features with a

Leftfield, Melbourne, March 18, 2011

19 March, 201110 May, 2017 Dance, Live 5

The early 1990s were a depressing time, and even more so in Victoria, Australia. The Gorbachev revolution, which successfully led to the unravelling of