Plaid ‘Feorm Falorx’ (Warp)
Space Odyssey
Make Space For Eno
In a talk at the Barbican, Brian Eno tackled the idea of space in music. Over 90 minutes he freewheeled from early recording techniques to Dolby Atmos, to the addition and removal of reverb in music, and ended with a request…
Telefís ‘a Dó’ (Dimple Discs)
“My progress has been fitful,” Cathal Coughlan once said of his career. In the Irish songwriter’s life, there were certainly “anti-career” moments. His original band Microdisney supported David Bowie in concert then immediately split up. He shoved a Virgin Mary souvenir up his backside in a typically riotous performance with The Fatima Mansions. And as Bubonique, he recorded an album called ‘Trance Arse Volume 3’ with the comedian Sean Hughes. Now that’s a career.
NEU! ’50!’ (Grönland)
NEW BEAT
Orbital ’30 Something’ (London)
Rave New World Thirty-something years ago, the thing that routinely disrupted the nascent British dance music scene was……
Bluedot 2022: Sunday, Lovell Stage
Rain clouds are looming ominously when London-based post-punk outfit Warmduscher take to the stage.
Bluedot 2022: Sunday, Orbit/Nebula stages
It feels like half of Bluedot is sheltering from Sunday’s early evening rain, rather than specifically being in the Orbit tent to see Jockstrap.
Bluedot 2022: Sunday Diary
We bump into Tim Peake in the media centre. I say “bump into”, it was more “walk past while he’s talking to someone else”.
Bluedot 2022: Saturday Diary
Saturday begins with a great discovery; a shortcut opposite the Mission Control tent which guides you through the Actual Reality Arcade, past the Space Pavillion and the Notes tent to the sanctuary of internet and proper toilets of the press office.
Bluedot 2022: Saturday, Lovell Stage
Bluedot has got me feeling all wistful today. It started just after breakfast, when I absent-mindedly bumped into The Clangers plink-plonking around in the Mission Control tent.