An Archive of Incendiary Magazine 2002 – 2017
"Like getting locked in at the museum or palace and your little sister finds a guitar and starts largin’ it up and you realize she’s a genius."
Scout Niblett, Caroline’s Room, Royal Theatre
Continue reading “Crossing Border Festival, Den Haag 12/11/04”
The rest of the band had clearly raided mum’s drawers and dressed up as (you guessed it), a band.
Continue reading “London Calling Day Two, Paradiso, 13/11/2004”
Finally, I was carried downstairs to see, YES! A London band. Honest, a real one.
Continue reading “London Calling Day One, Paradiso, 12/11/2004”
“It was all over in little more than an hour and I was rendered deaf in one ear.”
Continue reading “Soulwax, Paradiso, 10/11/2004”
“Then he gave a very good impression of being tied to a runaway washing machine, forever set on the spin-dry cycle. ”
Continue reading “Mike Stern & Richard Bona, Boerderij 7/11/2004”
Lots of middle-aged people with scruffy jeans, black tee-shirts, Dr Martins and thinning hair. Not much to look at, but a whole catalogue of failings can be excused if you’re listening to the right music.
“The audience for their part dance cautiously throughout, careful not to aggravate their arthritis, reserving space for body movements that would not induce a hernia or an onslaught of gout. ”
Continue reading “The Zombies – Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent – Boerderij, Zoetemeer, 5/11/2004”
At one point, the bar staff STOPPED serving in order to listen to him sing. Beat that.
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If you’re one of those pip squeaks that thinks that Usher is R&B or, God forbid, R Kelly is Soul; then you need to learn sharpish. Start here.
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Continue reading “Ben Harper and the Blind Boys Of Alabama – There Will Be A Light”
Everybody was a loser in that band, it was the all-time great losers’ band and that’s why the fans were so weird.