This is one of those occasions where people that you know do something cool. The people, or rather, person in question is one Rik Whitehead.
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Tearjerker – s/t (Little Rocket Records / Sell The Heart Records, 2023)
There’s something unique about post-industrial small towns in the North of England in their seeming ability to spawn legendary or at least heavily cult status
Read more7in and EP round-up: February 2021
Toronto Blessings – Life (self-released) Barnsley’s Toronto Blessings are back, and a most welcome return it is. You may have caught these guys on these
Read more7in and EP round-up: November 2020 (part 2)
The Raging Nathans / Reaganomics – Midwest Duress EP (Rad Girlfriend Records / Red Scare Industries) Goodness me. The Raging Nathans have already been hella
Read moreBarren Womb – Lizard Lounge (Loyal Blood Records, 2020)
Timo and Tony sound like the names of a couple of retired Italian mobsters who spend their days gormandising endless streams of spaghetti at the
Read moreFollow Your Dreams – The Half Life of Teaspoons (TNS Records, 2020)
Follow Your Dreams are from Manchester, and are formed from the ashes of the now defunct Rising Strike. Their singer / vocalist Kaz is apparently
Read moreInterview with Cruelty
I’ll confess that when it comes to Midlands based metallic hardcore band Cruelty I’ve had to eat a hefty slice of humble pie. You see,
Read more7in & EP round-up November 2019
Mystery Girl – Heartbreaker 7in EP (Brain Slash Records, 2019) The more astute of you lot out there may remember me reviewing the last joint
Read moreColored Moth – DIM (Wolves And Vibrancy Records, 2019)
I’ve always had a thing for both European screamo bands and noise rock. Discordant blasts of noise are a hell of a lot of fun
Read moreToronto Blessings – Asleep (self-released, 2019)
Toronto Blessings – Asleep (self-released) My dude from back home in Barnsley, Rik Whitehead, hit me up a few weeks ago to tell me about
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