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Apathy & Exhaustion

Author: tonyofnurgle

Tony of Nurgle is a true child of the North, recently returned to Yorkshire and residing in Leeds (after close to a decade living in exile in Croydon and South East London). He used to co-run a specialist record store in Manchester (Roadkill Records), and also several years as a promoter, and put on shows for the likes of Leatherface, the Loved Ones, Lucero, Minus The Bear, These Arms Are Snakes, Spy vs Spy, Latterman etc. He also spent several years DJing at shady rock clubs in Manchester, and started the infamous Thursday night "punk room" at Jilly's Rockworld. Also responsible for Middle Finger Response, and collaborated with a couple of friends on a monthly night called Refuse to Lose, which will still occasionally reunite the original DJ line-up - next event at Retro in Manchester on 07/09/2019. Apart from that, it's all bitterness and a jaundiced view of human nature, occasionally skateboarding, always exhausted, often reading books with maps in the front.

Pears – self-titled (Fat Wreck Chords, 2020)

May 5, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

I’ll admit it. This is pretty late, this. What’s a brother to do? The world is intent on going head first straight to hell, and

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7in and EP round-up: April 2020 (part 3)

April 25, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

The reality of life in lockdown is seemingly bedding in. I know longer feel like sawing my own head off with a bread knife in

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7in and EP round-up: April 2020 (part 2)

April 16, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Afewyearslater / Trophy Jump split EP () Right on. We have some stuff here from continental Europe: Afewyearslater are from Hungary and Trophy Jump (who

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The Phosphorus Bombs – …Against You! (self-released)

April 13, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

I feel really bad for only just getting around to this, as it came out a good few months back. But yeah, a very much

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7in & EP round-up: April 2020 (part 1)

April 11, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Dunno how shit is shaking out in your particular corners of the globe, dear readers, but the UK is a bit of a shit-show at

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Airstream Futures – Le Feu et Le Sable (Little Rocket Records, 2020)

March 9, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Life is weird innit? You spend ages with tons of time on your hands, yet your impetus and drive to be productive are beset upon

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Custody – II LP (Brassneck Records / Shield Recordings / Combat Rock Industry, 2020)

March 7, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Custody are from Finland, and describe themselves thusly: “We make melodic music that makes us happy. We sound like Sergie Loobkoff having a knife fight

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Diablogato – Old Scratch (State Line Records, 2019)

February 21, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Diablogato, I assume, is probably Spanish for “devil cat” or some shit like that. Only I wouldn’t know, as the English education system during the

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7in & EP round-up February 2020

February 15, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

A bit of another sweep up of odds and ends from last year in the main, this, I’m afraid. The main thing is that I’m

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The Drowns – Under Tension (Pirates Press Records, 2020)

February 1, 2020 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Now then. After an inauspicious return to reviewing “relatively current” releases, and the first one of 2020 with Beach Slang’s disappointing (on many levels) recent

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