This is the second EP by GRIT in 6 months – a prolific miracle by Irish standards, but one that displays resolve and ambition. Again, the vinyl release is handled …
GRIT – DIAMOND 7” EP (Distr-Oi Records 2017) Read More
When Don’t Swim On The East Coast EP by The Sussed was originally released, local punk singles were a rarity. Although several impresarios in Northern Ireland had the enthusiasm to …
THE SUSSED – Don’t Swim On The East Coast EP (Reissue – Spit Records 2017) Read More
REBELLION, the latest in an increasing prolific torrent of Paranoid Visions product comes to us as a sickly confectionary-pink slab of vinyl. What essentially started out as a new EP …
PARANOID VISIONS – REBELLION (Overground Records/FOAD 2017) Read More
TV TUBE HEART remains one of the great unique first generation punk albums. With a very assured sense of itself, the record stands up to reappraisal and scrutiny 40 years …
THE RADIATORS FROM SPACE – TV TUBE HEART 40th anniversary Edition (2017) Read More
Crazy Glue – An exploding bauble of luck once cast its shrapnel about the ranks of a certain generation of loud west coast American bands… shards of it struck those …
FISHBONE – CRAZY GLUE ( DC-Jam Records ) Read More
It seems that since the 40 SHADES OF GANGRENE album, some manner of circular pattern has been completed and the scab ends of Irishness have morphed into a sitting duck …
PARANOID VISIONS – BEWARE OF THE GOD (2009) (from the archives) Read More
The Radiators are sort of treated in the same way as the Tara Broach or one of many other high profile Irish antiquities…. They’re a well publicised entity, but walking …
The RADIATORS – TROUBLE PILGRIM (review originally published in RIOT 77 magazine Feb 2007) Read More